Hitler's Gauls
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Hitler's Gauls

The History of the 33rd Waffen-SS Division Charlemagne

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eBook - ePub

Hitler's Gauls

The History of the 33rd Waffen-SS Division Charlemagne

About this book

The divisions of the Waffen-SS were among the elite of Hitler's armies in the Second World War. But alongside the Germans in the Waffen-SS fought an astonishingly high number of volunteers from other countries. By the end of the Second World War these foreign volunteers comprised half of all Hitler's Waffen-SS, and filled the ranks of over twenty-four of the nominal thirty-eight Waffen-SS divisions. So during the most brutal war that mankind has ever known, hundreds of thousands of men flocked to fight for a country that was not theirs, and for a cause that was one of the most monstrous and barbaric in history. Who were these men, and why did they fight? Hitler's Gauls is an in-depth examination of one of these legions of foreign volunteers, the Charlemagne division, who were recruited entirely from conquered France. The men in Charlemagne, often motivated by an extreme anti-communist zeal, fought hard on the Eastern Front including battles of near annihilation in the snows of Pomerania and the final stand in the ruins of Berlin. This definitive history, illustrated with rare photographs, explores the background, training, key figures and full combat record of one of Hitler's lesser known foreign units of the Second World War.

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Information

Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780752454764
eBook ISBN
9780750967112
Topic
History
Subtopic
World War II
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Contents
  5. List of Maps
  6. Introduction
  7. I France: The Rise of the Extreme Right
  8. II Germany: The Birth of the Waffen-SS
  9. III 1940: Blitzkrieg and French Collapse
  10. IV The Waffen-SS and Foreign Recruitment
  11. V Frenchmen on the Eastern Front: The LVF
  12. VI Formation of the SS-Sturmbrigade Frankreich
  13. VII French SS First Blood: Galicia
  14. VIII A New Beginning: The Formation of Charlemagne
  15. IX Hell in the Snow: Pomerania
  16. X Götterdämmerung in Berlin: The End of Days
  17. XI Aftermath: The Reckoning
  18. XII Military Impact. Was it worth it?
  19. Appendix: Waffen-SS Ranks
  20. Bibliography
  21. Plates
  22. Copyright