III. Germanic SS Panzer-Korps — The History of Himmler's Favourite SS-Panzer-Korps 1943-1945 Volume 2 (9781804513286)
Features
- 430 pages
- Over 475 photos illustrations maps and tables
- Hardcover
- Book dimensions are 8.75 x 12
Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler regarded III. (Germanic) SS-Panzer-Korps under SSObergruppenführer Felix Steiner as his favourite unit and Steiner as his favourite general of the Waffen-SS. III. SS-Panzer-Korps was intended to ideologically unite SS volunteers from Denmark Norway The Netherlands Finland Sweden Belgium and Switzerland into a Germanic brotherhood - to politically serve Himmler´s plan for a Greater Germanic Empire and the colonisation in the East. Volume 2 covers the battles against the Red Army in the Baltic states Pomerania and BrandenburgBerlin in 1944 and 1945; including the retreat from Estonia in autumn 1944 the violent positional battles in Courland in 1944-1945 the frantic fighting in Pomerania and last but not least the desperate battles of defeat in Berlin in 1945. In addition to previously unpublished photographs this volume contains a wealth of unique eyewitness accounts culled from decades of interviews and correspondence with Waffen-SS veterans as well as detailed summaries of armoured corps operations short biographies of important personalities statistics and information about German and Soviet tanks and weaponry in addition to coverage of lesser-known SS units such as SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 Hermann von Salza and schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 503.
