The meeting was chaired and dominated by Reinhard Heydrich (portrayed by Kenneth Branagh), known as “The Hangman” throughout occupied Europe and second only to Himmler in the SS hierarchy, and ...

“Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History” by Martin Dugard and Bill O’Reilly, Henry Holt and Company, 307 pages, $30.

The previously unseen images from an SS officer's photo album date from 1931 to 1935 and cover the period of the Nazis' rise to power and the first two years of the dictatorship.