Chaos reigned in Germany, runaway inflation, massive unemployment, and the threat of rebellion had plagued it ever since the end of World War I. Now the members of the paramilitary organisation to which Himmler belonged had decided to do something about the intolerable situation. Determined to repudiate the punitive Treaty of Versailles and restore Germany to greatness the nazification of Germany was the aim of an elite force - the SS - its final goal to prepare Germany for ultimate power. In the dream’s full form, this unit’s job would be to purify the German people, purging the nation not only of active enemies of the Nazis but of critics, dissenters, and even those who fit a category called “work-shy”.