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Author: Chris Bishop

Publisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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This illustrated book provides an in-depth examination of the 350,000 or so foreign volunteers who fought for Hitler and Germany in World War II and it explores the background to their recruitment and also describes on a unit-by-unit basis their structure and combat record.


Hitler's Foreign Executioners

Hitler's Foreign Executioners

Author: Christopher Hale

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-04-11

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0752463934

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In Hitler’s Foreign Executioners, Heinrich Himmler’s secret master plan for Europe is revealed: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of thousands of ‘Germanic’ peoples from every corner of Europe, and even parts of Asia, to build an ‘SS Europa’. This revised and fully updated book, researched in archives all over Europe and using first-hand testimony, exposes Europe’s dirty secret: nearly half a million Europeans and more than a million Soviet citizens enlisted in the armed forces of the Third Reich to fight a deadly crusade against a mythic foe, Jewish Bolshevism. Even today, some apologists claim that these foreign SS volunteers were merely soldiers ‘like any other’ and fought a decent war against Stalin’s Red Army. Historian Christopher Hale demonstrates conclusively that these surprisingly common views are mistaken. By taking part in Himmler’s murderous master plan, these foreign executioners hoped to prove that they were worthy of joining his future ‘SS Europa’. But as the Reich collapsed in 1944, Himmler’s monstrous scheme led to bitter confrontations with Hitler – and to the downfall of the man once known as ‘loyal Heinrich’.


SS Hitler's Foreign Divisions

SS Hitler's Foreign Divisions

Author: Chris Bishop

Publisher: Amber Books Ltd

Published: 2012-07-16

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 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.


The Unknown Eastern Front

The Unknown Eastern Front

Author: Rolf-Dieter Müller

Publisher: I.B. Tauris

Published: 2012-07-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781780760728

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Rolf Dieter Mller is Professor of Military History at the Humboldt University, Berlin; Scientific Director of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Institute in Potsdam; and Coordinator of the 'The German Reich and the Second World War project. He is the author of numerous publications on World War II. At the beginni.


Hitler's Foreign Workers

Hitler's Foreign Workers

Author: Ulrich Herbert

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-03-13

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780521470001

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An account of the millions of foreign workers imported into Germany during the Second World War.


SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, 1941–1945

SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, 1941–1945

Author: Ian Baxter

Publisher: Pen and Sword Military

Published: 2021-12-08

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1399012991

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Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia 1942 - 1945 describes how the occupying Nazis recruited Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian conscripts into the Waffen-SS. Unlike her Latvian neighbor, Lithuania had no plans to provide Germany with a National Legion. Although volunteers came forward, the majority did not. This was not the case for Latvia and Estonia, which undertook huge recruitment programs, and thousands of men were drafted into their own foreign legion of Waffen-SS Grenadier divisions. After intensive training, these divisions saw action on the Eastern front, around Leningrad, in the Ukraine, before vicious defensive operations as the Red Army smashed its way through the Baltic States in 1944. Even in the last dying weeks of the war, what was left of the Baltic soldiers of the 15th, 19th, and 20th Waffen-SS Grenadier Divisions, continued to fight alongside their Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS counterparts until they were either destroyed or surrendered. The story of these divisions is graphically told with detailed captions and text together with many contemporary images in true Images of War style.


Foreign Volunteers of the Wehrmacht 1941–45

Foreign Volunteers of the Wehrmacht 1941–45

Author: Carlos Caballero Jurado

Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Published: 1983-11-24

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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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.


The Foreign Policy of the Third Reich: 1933-1939

The Foreign Policy of the Third Reich: 1933-1939

Author: Thomas Xavier Ferenczi

Publisher: Fonthill Media

Published: 2021-07-11

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13:

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Every phase of the Third Reich s foreign policy was determined by its authoritarian leader, Adolf Hitler. Following his rise to power, his political acuity and utter lack of scruple enabled him to achieve numerous diplomatic successes against the well-intentioned but largely ineffectual Anglo-French democracies. First by duplicity, then by bluff and bluster, and finally by brinkmanship, Hitler succeeded in establishing a strengthened and united Greater Germany (Grossdeutschland) in preparation for a Second Great War. This book examines in depth the revanchist foreign policy of Hitler s Germany from 1933 to 1939: the withdrawal of Germany from the League of Nations, German rearmament, the introduction of compulsory military service and the enlargement of the German Armed Forces, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the notorious Hossbach Conference, the Austrian Anschluss , the Munich Conference, the brazen seizures of Bohemia-Moravia and the Memel District, the Danzig crisis, the cynical brokering of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and the German invasion of Western Poland.


Hitler's Flemish Lions

Hitler's Flemish Lions

Author: Jonathan Trigg

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0752478532

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Motivated by anti-communist zeal and a burning desire for Flemish self-rule, the men of the SS Langemarck answered Himmler's call to arms and earned a reputation for steadfastness in battle from friend and foe alike, right through to their eventual destruction by the Soviets in 1945. the exploits of key figures such as the famous Flemish Knight's Cross winner Remy Schrijnen are covered in detail. Written by a former captain in the British Army, this is the second in Spellmount's new series on Hitler's foreign Legions, following the best-selling Hitler's Gauls.


The Waffen SS

The Waffen SS

Author: George H. Stein

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780801492754

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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.