This photographic volume depicts Himmler’s favourite unit in the Waffen-SS: the III 'Germanic' SS Panzerkorps, for it fulfilled Himmler’s long-time political plans of recruiting 'Germanic' volunteers for the creation of a greater Germanic Reich in the future. As such, it consiste...

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Hauptverfasser:	Westberg, Lennart (VerfasserIn), Kjellander, Petter III (VerfasserIn), Brenden, Geir 1971- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Natedal, Tommy 1966- (MitwirkendeR), Månsson, Martin 1971- (MitwirkendeR)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Warwick Helion & Company Ltd 2019-
Schlagworte:	Waffen-SS > Panzerkorps > 3 Geschichte Waffen-SS. / (Germanisches) SS-Panzer-Korps, III / History Waffen-SS. / (Germanisches) SS-Panzer-Korps, III / Pictorial works World War (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 / Regimental histories / Germany World War, 1939-1945 / Regimental histories / Germany / Pictorial works World War, 1939-1945 / Campaigns World War, 1939-1945 / Campaigns / Pictorial works Military campaigns Regimental histories Germany 1939-1945 History Bildband
Zusammenfassung:	This photographic volume depicts Himmler’s favourite unit in the Waffen-SS: the III 'Germanic' SS Panzerkorps, for it fulfilled Himmler’s long-time political plans of recruiting 'Germanic' volunteers for the creation of a greater Germanic Reich in the future. As such, it consisted in part of SS volunteers from western and northern European countries. Although largely forgotten today, this elite SS unit fought on a variety of battlefields ranging from Croatia and Ingermanland’s snow-covered forests near Leningrad to the historic Estonian city of Narva, where it defended the Baltic countries of Estonia and Latvia against the Red Army in 1944-45. The remnants of the Panzerkorps ended up in both the hopeless defence of Pomerania and the final apocalypse at the battle for Brandenburg and Berlin in April-May 1945, when the Third Reich went down in a storm of fire and steel.##Volume 1 covers the period from the creation of the III SS Panzerkorps in the summer of 1943 until the German evacuation of Estonia in September 1944. The coverage includes the unit’s involvement in anti-partisan operations in Croatia (September-December 1943), the fighting at Oranienbaum-Leningrad and the battle for Ingria (January-February 1944); the defence of the Narva bridgehead and the battles for Dorpat and the Blue Hills, finishing with the German evacuation of Estonia (February-September 1944). On the Eastern Dront, a motley mix of nationalities and individuals fought under the Swastika and subsequently it was volunteers from various countries who served in the III ‘Germanic’ SS Panzerkorps, including Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, Swiss, Dutch, Flemings, Walloons, Estonians, Germans and ethnic Germans from Rumania. Even a handful of renegade British volunteers turned up in this unit during the final weeks of the Second World War. All of these soldiers had widely varying reasons for joining the Waffen-SS. [...]
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