Author: Kenneth Estes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911628354
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
A European Anabasis
Author: Kenneth Estes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911628354
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911628354
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Western European Volunteers in the German Army and SS, 1940-1945
Author: Kenneth William Estes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
A European Anabasis
Author: Kenneth W. Estes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military service, Voluntary
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 1 side ad gangen.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military service, Voluntary
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 1 side ad gangen.
A European anabasis : Western Europe volunteers in the German army and SS, 1940-1945
Author: Kenneth W. Estes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A European Anabasis
Author: Kenneth W. Estes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military service, Voluntary
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military service, Voluntary
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
European Anabasis
Author: Kenneth W. Estes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
SS: Hell on the Western Front
Author: Chris Bishop
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
ISBN: 1782743472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
SS: Hell on the Western Front describes in vivid detail the exploits of the Waffen-SS in Western Europe from 1940 to 1945 including such infamous Waffen-SS divisions as the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, Das Reich, Hitlerjugend and Totenkopf, illustrated with rare photographs.
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
ISBN: 1782743472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
SS: Hell on the Western Front describes in vivid detail the exploits of the Waffen-SS in Western Europe from 1940 to 1945 including such infamous Waffen-SS divisions as the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, Das Reich, Hitlerjugend and Totenkopf, illustrated with rare photographs.
Joining Hitler's Crusade
Author: David Stahel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316510344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
A ground-breaking study that looks at why European nations sent troops to take part in Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316510344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
A ground-breaking study that looks at why European nations sent troops to take part in Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.
Foreign Volunteers of the Wehrmacht 1941–45
Author: Carlos Caballero Jurado
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
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.
Hitler's Green Army: Western Europe and Scandinavia
Author: Antonio J. Muñoz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description