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Totenkopf. Volume 2: The Structure, Development and Personalities of the 3.SS-Panzer-Division

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781910777992 Author(s): Mark C. Yerger Format: Hardcover Year: 2016 Publisher: Helion & Company Dimensions: 276 x 0 x 219 (w x l x h) Pages: 360

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Description: 'In 'Totenkopf' volume II Mark C. Yerger begins with a lengthy chapter on the SS officer and Waffen-SS combat arms schools. Especially relevant to the earliest divisions, many 'Totenkopf' officers were trained by this system with divisional veterans found serving with their ever-changing faculties. Starting with the prewar Junkerschulen and their expansion, both the wartime created academies are included. Overlooked despite their significance, the arms schools that produced SS officers among their variety of specialist training programs from mid-1942 to nearly the end of hostilities are detailed. Facilities examined include the SS-Pionierschule 'Hradsichko,' SS-Panzergrenadierschule 'Kienschlag,' SS-Artillerieschule II, SS-Nachrichtenschule, and the assault gun school in Bukowan that became the SS-Panzerjager(Sturmgeschutz)Schule 'Janowitz.' The final 53 German Cross in Gold recipients are examined next with unpublished details for all ranks. Among them are men also awarded the Knight's Cross, material being included from the personal photo albums of two such officer recipients with dozens of other new images along with over 30 proposal texts relating the combats resulting in these decorations. A chapter examines those entered in the Roll of Honor (later Honor Clasp holders), including narratives resulting in that distinction. With the most of any Waffen-SS division, the 33 Cl