Reddit mentions of The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS (Classic Military History)

First, what information are you seeking?

There is always a chance you might find your grandfather's name in certain books that describe the history of the SS. One such book is:

• The Order of the Death's Head: http://www.amazon.com/Order-Deaths-Head-Hitlers-Military/dp/0141390123/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1312255682&sr=8-2
  
  If you are seeking specific information about him and/or his unit -- unit rosters, deployments, fitness reports, etc. - then you'll probably have to contact a private firm. They usually don't share their database collections freely since they spent years and years sifting through documents and evidence.
  
  Check the directory listings for such firms in Germany and Austria. They are out there. They might even be able to help without charging you a fee.
  

if history is written by the winners, why then are so many books extolling robt. e. lee?


if history is 'written by the winners' then who how did this get published?

why, if 'history is written by the winners' are people still able to purchase Hitler's 'opus magnus' just about anywhere?

>if history is written by the winners, why then are so many books extolling robt. e. lee?


>if history is 'written by the winners' then who how did this get published?

>why, if 'history is written by the winners' are people still able to purchase Hitler's 'opus magnus' just about anywhere?

This is pretty funny drama but this bugged me a bit, I'm not a 'race realist' or whatever, but 'history is written by the winners' has a bunch of meanings, one of them I guess is 'nobody gets to write history except the winners and those who side with them' but to other people it means that generally the mainstream narrative of popular history follows who has power and 'hegemony' in society. I think this is much closer to the truth; for example, if the first world war had been won by Imperial Germany the narrative about German aggression and desire to bring about a Europe that was economically and culturally dominated by Germany would be very different, the same with US bombing of Japanese cities in the second world war and hundreds of other examples, Napoleon would be seen as a hero outside France if he'd managed to impose his French dominated Europe, etc, etc. This is true especially within the lifetime of the polity or group who are being written about.

The cases of Japan and the defeated Southern states are interesting because, iirc, they were essentially allowed to reconstruct a narrative that treated their war aims and motivations favourably (or focused on members/bits who were honourable etc) because of the elites reaching accommodation with the victorious powers. The Southern states had the Jim Crow period and Japan had MacArthur's 'reverse course' where rolling back the ultra nationalist/fascist-ish state, limiting the power of bureaucrats, business families and the mafia was reversed, partly because of the US need for a strong Japan to combat east Asian nationalism or 'communism' etc.