A European Anabasis western European volunteers in the German Army and SS, 1940-1945
Dissertation, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 1984
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Germany
> History
> Reserves
> Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
> Recruiting, enlistment, etc
> Military service, Voluntary
> World War, 1939-1945
> Collaborationists
> Foreign enlistment
> Hochschulschrift
> Deutsches Reich
> Waffen-SS
> Freiwilliger
> Ausländer
> Geschichte 1939-1945
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Dissertation, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 1984 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 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' 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 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' |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. [192] - 204 |
| Beschreibung: | 210 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 1909384526 1-909384-52-6 9781909384521 978-1-909384-52-1 |