Eyewitness to Hell With the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front in World War 2

by Stahl, Erich

• ISBN13: 9780982190739
• ISBN10: 0982190735
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-18
• Publisher: Ryton Publishing
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Summary

While the Waffen-SS has become legendary as an elite fighting force in World War II, there are few accounts that present the human face of those fearsome formations. Erich Stahl was a professional journalist assigned to cover some of the most famous of these units--the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, and the Dutch and Ukrainian volunteers serving with the SS--but with a twist: he actually pulled duty as a soldier in the front lines, where he experienced all the hardships, privations, and gut-wrenching emotions of the men who fought the Soviets.

Author Biography

Erich Stahl lives in Germany.

Table of Contents

Prelude

The Northern Route of Advance

Advance to the South

Along the Black Sea to Mariupol

To Taganrog

Squadron Political Chances

Tank Warfare in the Caucasus

Stalingrad

The Specter of Tauroggen

Bridgehead Narva

Fighting in Galicia

Battle for Budapest

The Great Delirium

The Reckoning of Stalingrad

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