Klaus-Jürgen Bremm ventures a critical and well-founded overview of the military elite formation of the Nazi regime. He describes the processes of ideologisation and the organisational history from the first Totenkopfverbände (Death's Head Units) and the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler to the 38 divisions of the Waffen-SS at the end of the war, which also included many units with foreign soldiers. He details their operational history and combat missions. He focuses on the war atrocities committed by the troops, which were declared a criminal organisation in 1946, and the activities of their members in the early Federal Republic. His concise conclusion: the Waffen-SS was at its best after the war.
Author
Bremm. Klaus-Jürgen
Title
Die Waffen-SS
Details
Paperback. 362 pages.
State
new
Subtitle
Hitlers überschätzte Prätorianer
Herder Verlag GmbH Hermann-Herder-Str. 4 79104 Freiburg Deutschland
