It was the epitome of terror. It carried out the mass murder. Like no other organization in Hitler's empire, it embodied the deadly delusion of the master man. SS - the two letters in Old Germanic runic writing represent probably the most effective and dangerous instrument of power of the Nazi dictatorship. In the world's first TV series about the history of the SS ZDF draws journalistic balance sheet: With many previously unpublished sources and with witnesses of the history of the SS: victims, perpetrators, opponents.