SS-Totenkopf France 1940 (Images of War Series)
Jack Holroyd
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Paperback. SS-Totenkopf is a photographic account of that unit's birth and first month of active service. The Division, formed from concentration camp guards, fought alongside Rommel's 7th Panzer Division against the only British armored counterattack of the campaign. The translated text appears inter spaced with the author's explanations. Num Pages: 128 pages, 250-300 B&W Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 243 x 8. Weight in Grams: 372. Some very minor shelf wear, but remains very good
By the end of the Second World War the reputation of Hitler's Schutzstaffel (SS) had become so heavily sullied that the organization was branded criminal and banned in post-war Germany. It's authority in Nazi Germany had been enormous having been made responsible for Reich internal security, it implemented Nazi racial policy and managed the death camps. Most oddly it produced a rival military organization to the German regular army - fighting alongside it but never a part of it - the Waffen SS. SS-Totenkopf is a photographic account of that unit's birth and first month of active service. The ... Read more
By the end of the Second World War the reputation of Hitler's Schutzstaffel (SS) had become so heavily sullied that the organization was branded criminal and banned in post-war Germany. It's authority in Nazi Germany had been enormous having been made responsible for Reich internal security, it implemented Nazi racial policy and managed the death camps. Most oddly it produced a rival military organization to the German regular army - fighting alongside it but never a part of it - the Waffen SS. SS-Totenkopf is a photographic account of that unit's birth and first month of active service. The ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848848337
SKU
KSC0000727
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Ref
99-1
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