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Author |
: George H. Stein |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 1966 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801492750 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801492754 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Waffen SS by : George H. Stein
This landmark study, first published by Cornell University Press in 1966, shows how Hitler's elite army grew from a praetorian guard of barely 28,000 men at the beginning of the Second World War to a combat-hardened army of more than 500,000 in 1945. George H. Stein examines in detail the structure and organization of the Waffen SS and describes the rigid personnel selection and intensive physical, military, and ideological training that helped to create the tough and dedicated cadre around which the larger force of the later war years was built.
Author |
: James J. Weingartner |
Publisher |
: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 1974 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015005022044 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hitler's Guard by : James J. Weingartner
Focusing on the Leibstandarte's members as soldiers, this account contributes significantly to military history of the World War II period. The Leibstandarte originated in March 1933 as an elite staff guard for Hitler's chancellery, when Hitler personally gave the order for its formation to his longtime associate and bodyguard, Sepp Dietrich. The guard soon proved loyalty to Hitler by eliminating the Führer's real and imagined enemies in the "blood purge" of 1934. As an elite military unit, which it became during the war, it fought in the last major offensive against the Western Allies in December 1944-January 1945, as a kind of tangible representation of Hitler on the battlefield. Based largely on captured German SS and army records Weingartner's account thus forms a unique and valuable record of the party-military organization, the SS in microcosm.
Author |
: David Yelton |
Publisher |
: Osprey Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2006-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1846030137 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781846030130 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hitler's Home Guard: Volkssturmmann by : David Yelton
Osprey's study of Germany's Home Guard during the latter part of World War II (1939-1945). The creation of the German Home Guard or Volkssturm on 18 October 1944 was a desperate measure by the Nazi regime to utilize every available manpower resource in their last-ditch attempts to delay their inevitable defeat. All able-bodied males between the ages of 16 and 60 who were not already members of the German Armed Forces were conscripted into one organization. The aim of the Volkssturm was to shore up the defense of the Reich, but also to restrict any possible revolt or dissent by exercising military discipline over the entire male population of fighting age. This Nazi fantasy was the creation of a new force of highly-motivated Aryans dedicated to the heroic defense of their fatherland. However, the Volkssturm failed due to poor equipment, lack of training, and low morale. Men who had no experience of combat and little or no inclination to fight, and who had little interest in the Nazi regime found themselves sent into battle against impossible odds and achieving little or nothing. The focus of the book is the section of Germany's western front where the Volkssturm fought in vain to slow the advance of Canadian forces and where the desertion rate was very high. David K. Yelton follows the experience of a Volkssturm conscript from his call-to-arms, into action and through to his capture and time as a POW, examining his personal reaction to the creation of the German Home Guard and his response to the fighting into which he was thrust.
Author |
: Charles Whiting |
Publisher |
: Canelo + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2022-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781800326545 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1800326548 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Warriors of Death by : Charles Whiting
Obedience to the Führer. Obedience to the death. Hitler’s elite SS bodyguards prided themselves on doing whatever it took, even if death was the price. They called themselves the "old hares", and they left a trail of terror as they butchered their way across Europe. Of the 30,000 soldiers who signed up, only thirty would survive the war. Some perished in the abortive push on Normandy in 1944, directed by the Führer. Others suffered gruesome deaths at the hands of the Russians. In a chilling day-by-day account of the final year of this crack squad, bestseller Charles Whiting chronicles their bloody demise, which culminated in humiliation at the Battle of the Bulge. This is a gripping brutal history, taking us deep into one of the most terrifying and cult-like units of the Second World War. It shows just how far the Nazi’s were willing to go; and the great efforts needed to vanquish them.
Author |
: James J. Weingartner |
Publisher |
: Berkley |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0425123057 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780425123058 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hitler's Guard by : James J. Weingartner
Discusses Hitler's brutal SS and their involvement in many battles, their roles as executioners, jailers, spies, police, servants, and soldiers, and the atrocities they committed
Author |
: Blaine Taylor |
Publisher |
: Fonthill Media |
Total Pages |
: 584 |
Release |
: 2017-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Guarding the Fuhrer by : Blaine Taylor
German leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was one of the most controversial politicians and military commanders in all recorded history. As such, his life was conspired against by all manner of enemies, both foreign and domestic: German and Russian Communists, political and military opponents, rival Nazi leaders, and the intelligence services of the Allied powers, among them the British SOE. Dozens of attempts were made on his life over the course of two decades, including a bomb explosion in his own headquarters and yet, he survived them all. This is the story of how he did so, as told via the exciting sagas of Sepp Dietrich and his SS, as well as of German government security leader Johann Rattenhuber and his Reich Security Service, the RSD. Here we see the measures used to protect Hitler in public, his cars, planes, trains, homes, military headquarters scattered across conquered Europe, and during personal appearances. Ironically, of course, in the end Hitler decided to take his own life in the infamous Berlin bunker, but this is the story of how a man that so many people wanted dead managed to stay alive for so long in volatile circumstances.
Author |
: Max Williams |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 672 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 178155434X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781781554340 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (4X Downloads) |
Synopsis SS Elite - The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard by : Max Williams
The SS of the title is presented as the runic insignia of the Schutzstaffel.
Author |
: Wendy Lower |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780547863382 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0547863381 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hitler's Furies by : Wendy Lower
About the participation of German women in World War II and in the Holocaust.
Author |
: Norman Ohler |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 307 |
Release |
: 2017-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781328664099 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1328664090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blitzed by : Norman Ohler
A New York Times bestseller, Norman Ohler's Blitzed is a "fascinating, engrossing, often dark history of drug use in the Third Reich” (Washington Post). The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, which were consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to German soldiers. In fact, troops were encouraged, and in some cases ordered, to take rations of a form of crystal meth—the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to account for the breakneck invasion that sealed the fall of France in 1940, as well as other German military victories. Hitler himself became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs—ultimately including Eukodal, a cousin of heroin—administered by his personal doctor. Thoroughly researched and rivetingly readable, Blitzed throws light on a history that, until now, has remained in the shadows. “Delightfully nuts.”—The New Yorker
Author |
: Max Williams |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2018-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1781556385 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781781556382 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis SS Elite by : Max Williams
Scope and content: "Any scholar of history will have recognized the similarities between Ancient Rome and the National Socialist movement of the 20th century. Aside from the obvious expansionist policies of empire governed by a single autocratic leader, the Nazis adopted the Roman style extended arm salute, the verbal greeting of hailing the leader and the eagle adorned banners and standards. Another parallel was the introduction of the SS--a modern Praetorian Guard, easily recognizable by the unique attire and consisting of the largest, strongest and fittest men available. Never before has an organization engendered wide-ranging emotion as on the scale of Hitler's SS--lead by Heinrich Himmler, who found his true metier upon his appointment by Hitler in 1929 with his natural organizational and administrative skills. This remarkable book ... turns the spotlight upon those characters at the pinnacle of the pyramid that formed the SS. Illustrated with well over 1000 photographs, these ... volumes are the author's life's work, and present an unique perspective on this feared organization"--Publisher description