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Foreign Volunteer Units of Nazi Germany

Author : Source Wikipedia

Publisher : University-Press.org

Page : 88 pages

File Size : 20,80 MB

Release : 2013-09

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ISBN : 9781230606224

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 87. Chapters: British Free Corps, 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, Indische Legion, 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, 23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland, Serbian Volunteer Corps, Azeri Waffen SS Volunteer Formations, 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Wallonien, 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland, 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne, Nachtigall Battalion, Russian Liberation Army, Blue Division, 27th SS Volunteer Division Langemarck, 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts, Roland Battalion, 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg, Russian Corps, 34th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Landstorm Nederland, Armenische Legion, Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS, Latvian Legion Day, 201st Schutzmannschaft Battalion, Non-Germans in the German armed forces during World War II, Free Corps Denmark, 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, 1st Cossack Division, 23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama, Hiwi, Georgian Legion, XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps, Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism, 24th Waffen Gebirgs Division der SS, 18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Horst Wessel, Ostlegionen, Danish People's Defence, 25th SS Grenadier Division Hunyadi, Bergmann Battalion, Ukrainian Liberation Army, Schalburg Corps, 25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Hunyadi, Blue Squadron, Kalmykian Voluntary Cavalry Corps, Turkestan legion, 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, Azerbaijani Legion, Blue Legion, 1st Infantry Division, SS-Sturmjager Regiment, Waffen Grenadier Regiment of the SS, Tatar Legions, Oy Insinooritoimisto Ratas, Volga Tatar Legion, Caucasian Muslim Legion.



Foreign Volunteers of the Wehrmacht 1941–45

Author : Carlos Caballero Jurado

Publisher : Osprey Publishing

Page : 60 pages

File Size : 10,24 MB

Release : 1983-11-24

Category : History

ISBN :

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This book looks at the uniforms worn by the foreign volunteers integrated into the German forces during the Second World War, between the years of 1941 and 1945.



Stalingrad

Author : Antony Beevor

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 560 pages

File Size : 44,69 MB

Release : 1999-05-01

Category : History

ISBN : 1101153563

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The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost; then, in an astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. This battle for the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives. Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides, fighting in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony Beevor has itnerviewed survivors and discovered completely new material in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including prisoner interrogations and reports of desertions and executions. As a story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable. Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle.



Hitler's Jihadis

Author : Jonathan Trigg

Publisher : The History Press

Page : 343 pages

File Size : 23,46 MB

Release : 2011-11-30

Category : History

ISBN : 0752477587

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By the end of the Second World War there were soldiers of more than thirty different nationalities in the Waffen-SS, and Reich Germans themselves were in the minority. How did a regime that believed so completely in the racial superiority of its population come to welcome hundreds of thousands of foreigners into its military elite? Who were these foreign SS men, and why did they fight so long and so hard for such a murderous regime?Hitler’s Jihadis provides an analysis of some of the most intriguing and controversial of these foreign volunteers – the thousands of Muslims, from as far away as India who wore the SS double lightning flashes alongside their erstwhile conquerors. Jonathan Trigg gives an insight into the pre-war politics that inspired these Islamic volunteers, who for the most part would not survive. Those who did survive the war and the bloody retribution that followed saw the reputation of the units in which they had served berated as militarily inept and castigated for atrocities against unarmed civilians. Using first-hand accounts and official records, Hitler’s Jihadis peels away the propaganda to reveal the complexity that lies at the heart of the story of Hitler’s most unlikely ‘Aryans’.



The East Came West

Author : Antonio J. Munoz

Publisher :

Page : 340 pages

File Size : 37,65 MB

Release : 2001

Category : History

ISBN :

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A study of East European and Middle Eastern Collaboration with Nazi Germany in World War II.Hundreds of color, b&w photos, diagrams, tables, charts, line drawings, etc.



Joining Hitler's Crusade

Author : David Stahel

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 457 pages

File Size : 22,8 MB

Release : 2018

Category : History

ISBN : 1316510344

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A ground-breaking study that looks at why European nations sent troops to take part in Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.



SS Hitler's Foreign Divisions

Author : Chris Bishop

Publisher : Amber Books Ltd

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 40,67 MB

Release : 2012-07-16

Category : History

ISBN : 1908273992

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The Waffen-SS were the elite of Hitler’s armies in World War II, but the most fanatical were not even German. This is a comprehensive examination of every foreign Waffen-SS formation, including infamous divisions such as Wiking and Prinz Eugen, units such as the Kaminski Brigade and the British-recruited Britisches Freikorps.



Soviet Nationalities in German Wartime Strategy, 1941-1945

Author : Alex Alexiev

Publisher : RAND Corporation

Page : 56 pages

File Size : 39,17 MB

Release : 1982

Category : History

ISBN :

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This study examines the determinants and character of German policies toward the Soviet non-Russian nationalities and their effects on the Soviet and German war efforts and on the nationalities themselves. Particular emphasis is placed on the analysis of the nature and magnitude of military collaboration with the Germans by the non-Russian nationalities, in an attempt to examine the military exploitability of the political warfare opportunities that presented themselves. Section II outlines the attitudes toward the Soviet nationalities prevalent among the Nazi leadership and the role envisaged for them in a postwar German-dominated Europe, and juxtaposes them on the views of German officials who did not share Nazi dogma and advocated a more pragmatic approach. German policies in the occupied non-Russian territories and their implications are examined in Sec. III. Section IV describes the different types and degrees of military collaboration with the Germans. The main conclusions are summarized in Sec. V.



A European Anabasis

Author : Kenneth Estes

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Page : 210 pages

File Size : 11,99 MB

Release : 2019-05-15

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ISBN : 9781911628354

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Kenneth Estes studies the 100,000 West Europeans who fought against Russia as volunteers for the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS. A retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, Estes shows tremendous knowledge of combat and writes gripping battlefield prose. Two-thirds of the West European volunteers came from Spain and the Netherlands, yet Estes demonstrates wide range and covers also Flemish, Walloon, French, Danish, and Norwegian combat units. Avoiding over-generalization, the author distinguishes carefully among the Danes and Flemings who fought competently with the SS-Wiking Division and later with Nordland, the courageous but poorly-armed Spanish, the ill-trained Dutch and French in Landstorm Nederland and SS-Charlemagne, and the Norwegians who after a first wave of enthusiasm held back altogether. Estes pulverizes the Nazi propaganda notion of a multinational European army defending 'Western civilization' against 'Bolshevism'. He shows that West Europeans, mainly of the urban working classes, volunteered from a mix of motives -adventure-seeking, ideology, hopes of personal advantage or material gain, a desire for better food, or a wish to escape a criminal record at home. He demonstrates that the best-performing foreign legions were trained and led by German officers and formed parts of larger SS units, and also that the Wehrmacht placed little value on foreign formations until its other manpower reserves ran out in 1944-45. This is a landmark work on a subject which has been much written about, but rarely understood or described as perceptively as in the pages of this book.