For educational purposes <br /><br />By 1934, almost ten years after its creation, the SS was in the process of becoming Hitler's own brotherhood of templars. <br /><br />The handpicked, disciplined and fiercely loyal bodyguard of the Fuhrer, was being transformed into an Aryan Elite - a mystical order dedicated to the creation of an Empire. <br /><br />The most sinister of all Nazi creations was the black-clad SS. Originally Hitler's bodyguard, this military-religious order became a racial aristocracy under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler. <br /><br />A carefully selected elite, destined to subjugate all other peoples and achieve the ultimate purification through racial selection and elimination, the SS personified the Aryan vision of a master race. <br /><br />This documentary explores the strange and secret world of the SS, from its roots in the teachings of Germanic mystics and occultist circles, to its rise to a position of unprecented power and authority in Nazi Germany.
