No military organisation has fought as well against such overwhelming odds as the Waffen-SS, but few have earned such an infamous reputation in the process. Waffen- SS soldiers embraced the concept of hardness, which meant that they showed no pity towards Germany's enemies. They were soldiers of destruction par excellence.
Battles of the Waffen-SS is a detailed summary of the Waffen-SS's greatest battles between 1939 and 1945. Featured are how the Das Reich Division conquered Yugoslavia almost single-handedly, how the dreaded Totenkopf Division held out for 73 days against impossible odds in the Demyansk Pocket, how the foreign volunteer units halted the Red Army at Narva for six months, and much more.
With the aid of 120 rarely seen photographs and 10 full-page maps, Battles of the Waffen-SS tells the full, dramatic story of the Waffen-SS in action: the stunning victories, the savagery of the Eastern Front, the atrocities both on and off the battlefield, and the grim battles of attrition fought in the final years of the war. This is the story of Hitler's Praetorian Guard at war.
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INDEX
A
Arnhem 23
B
Balck, General Hermann 183
Belgorod 81, 101
Belgrade 33, 34
Bittrich, SS-ObergruppenfĂźhrer Willi 166
Blaskowitz, Colonel-General Johannes 147
Bock, Field Marshal Fedor von 15, 41
Brandenberger, General 166
British formations:
CORPS:
I Corps 157
VIII Corps 155
XXX Corps 155, 160, 161, 162, 163
DIVISIONS:
1st Airborne Division 160
11th Armoured Division 155
15th (Scottish) Division 155, 156
52nd (Lowland) Division 160
BRIGADES:
22nd Armoured Brigade 155
Brockdorff-Ahlcfeldt, General Graf 66
Budapest 177, 178
Budyenni, Marshal 42
Busch, Colonel-General Ernst 52, 68
C
Cambrai 24
Cherkassy 114, 115
D
Degrelle, Leon ll 6, 119, 124, 129, 131
Dietrich, SS-OberstgruppenfĂźhrer Josef âSeppâ 8, 25, 26, 27, 38, 81, 82, 155, 165, 179, 186
Dollmann, General Freidrich 156
Dunkirk 26, 27
Dvinsk 52, 53, 54
E
Eicke, SS-ObergruppenfĂźhrer Theodor 21, 22, 52, 54, 57, 65, 66, 67, 70, 89
G
German formations:
ARMY GROUPS:
Army Group B 147, 160
Army Group Centre 64, 96, 98, 99
Army Group G 147, 148
Army Group Narva 145
Army Group North 64, 145
Army Group South 96, 179
ARMIES:
Second Army 60
Seco...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Birth to First Blood 1925â40
- Balkan Blitzkrieg
- Operation âBarbarossaâ
- The Demyansk Pocket
- The Battles for Kharkov
- The Battle of Kursk
- The Cherkassy Pocket
- The Defence of Narva
- Normandy and Arnhem
- The Ardennes Offensive
- Operation âSpring Awakeningâ
- Order of Battle of the Waffen-SS
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
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