Narrative histories highlighting organization, combat experiences, and casualties of each division. Lists of constituent units and division commanders.
Sources for further reading on each division. From an award-winning and bestselling historian, the first comprehensive military history in over fifty years of Hitler's famous and infamous personal army: the Waffen-SS The Waffen-SS was one of the most feared combat organizations of the twentieth century. Originally formed as a protection squad for Adolf Hitler it became the military wing of Heinrich Himmler's SS and a key part of the Nazi state, with nearly , men passing through its ranks.
The Waffen-SS played a crucial role in furthering the aims of the Third Reich which made its soldiers Hitler's political operatives. During its short history, the elite military divisions of the Waffen-SS acquired a reputation for excellence, but their famous battlefield record of success was matched by their repeated and infamous atrocities against both soldiers and civilians. Waffen-SS is the first definitive single-volume military history of the Waffen-SS in more than 50 years. In considering the actions of its leading personalities, including Himmler, Sepp Dietrich, and Otto Skorzeny, and analyzing its specialist training and ideological outlook, eminent historian Adrian Gilbert chronicles the battles and campaigns that brought the Waffen-SS both fame and infamy.
Author : George H. Draws upon Heinrich Himmler's records in providing an account of the military arm of the SS, following its development and assessing its importance in the history of the Third Reich. 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? 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. In —45 the Waffen-SS formed many nominal 'divisions' from a motley range of sources, whose battlefield value was as varied as their backgrounds.
The best were built around existing Western European volunteer regiments; some, raised from Central Europeans and Russians, were strong in numbers but weak in morale; some were of negligible size, scraped together from remnants and trainees; and some were sinister 'anti-partisan' gangs, assembled from the military dregs of the Eastern Front.
ISBN: Format: Book. 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? 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. About the author JT. Read more. Related Books.
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Yes Manage cookies. Accessed February 29, They even sought an eventual final solution to the religion question, a question which they postponed until after the war was to be over and won. Was it really one of admiration as one quote made by Adolf Hitler suggests? Ideologically, Nazi Germany despised anybody they deemed non-Aryan and especially those that they deemed Semitic. However, due to the needs provided by the war, Nazi Germany sought out a strategic partnership with various different groups within both the Arab and the Islamic world.
For the same strategic reasons why the Second Reich allied with the Ottoman Empire during WWI; when the tide of war either reached a stalemate or turned against them, the Germans sought a decisive advantage over the Allies that would help them win WWII. Accessed April 15, All these territories covered important trade routes, material concerns, and held some sort of strategic significance during wartime.
According to Motadel, both the Germans and the Allies recognized that Islam was not only a potent religious force, but also a political force. Both these factors combined helped to shape German foreign policy throughout the first half of the 20th Century.
They were also interested in winning the hearts and minds of Islamic populations around the world. It is important to point out that even before the two world wars, there already existed a German fascination with Islam, or more broadly; the Orient. Orientalism has multiple definitions. Unfortunately, there also existed a preexisting furor of anti-Semitism and racism within German society that existed since the middle ages simple due to the fact that Jews were different.
They looks, behaved, and even smelled differently from Christians. It was viewed as a divisive part of society.
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