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Although largely forgotten today, this elite SS unit fought on a variety of battlefields ranging from Croatia and Ingermanland''s snow-covered forests near Leningrad to the historic Estonian city of Narva, where it defended the Baltic countries of Estonia and Latvia against the Red Army in 1944-45. The remnants of the Panzerkorps ended up in both the hopeless defense of Pomerania and the final apocalypse at the battle for Brandenburg and Berlin in April-May 1945, when the Third Reich went down in a storm of fire and steel. Volume 1 covers the period from the creation of the III SS Panzerkorps in the summer of 1943 until the German evacuation of Estonia in September 1944. The coverage includes the unit''s involvement in anti-partisan operations in Croatia (September-December 1943), the fighting at Oranienbaum-Leningrad and the battle for Ingria (January-February 1944); the defense of the Narva bridgehead and the battles for Dorpat and the Blue Hills, finishing with the German evacuation of Estonia (February-September 1944). On the Eastern Front, a motley mix of nationalities and individuals fought under the Swastika and subsequently it was volunteers from various countries who served in the III ''Germanic'' SS Panzerkorps, including Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, Swiss, Dutch, Flemings, Walloons, Estonians, Germans and ethnic Germans from Rumania. Even a handful of renegade British volunteers turned up in this unit during the final weeks of the Second World War. All of these soldiers had widely varying reasons for joining the Waffen-SS. The 2 volumes forming this series will not only include well over 1,000 mostly unpublished photographs of the III SS Panzerkorps during 1943-45, but also a large number of previously unpublished personal battle descriptions by surviving officers and soldiers of this corps from the authors'' archives of personal correspondence. The photographs are also accompanied by interesting unit histories, biographies, commentaries on weapons and vehicles, as well as analyses of battlefield tactics. These volumes also destroy the myth that the Waffen-SS was purely a military phenomenon. The Waffen-SS was, and remained, in the world and in the long-term planning of Hitler, Himmler and the SS, primarily a political-ideological institution. The multinational Waffen-SS and its esprit de corps must be seen within the context of the European fascist movements of the time and of the polarization between fascism and communism during the years between the First and Second World War. This is especially true for the III ''Germanic'' SS Panzerkorps as a future cadre providing SS functionaries for the creation and maintenance of a greater Germanic Reich in the West and the colonization of Lebensraum in the East. SS propaganda deliberately associated the character of the III ''Germanic'' SS Panzerkorps with the medieval Teutonic Order in the East as an historic continuity. The dream of a Germanic empire and the Nazi war of extermination against Slavs and Jews were two sides of the same coin. Despite serious flaws during the hasty creation of the III ''Germanic'' SS Panzerkorps in 1943, this unit achieved a remarkably successful military performance against a numerically superior opponent, the Red Army. The corps inflicted severe losses on Soviet units during all engagements. However, the losses of the III SS Panzerkorps in manpower and equipment were also extremely high. The personal battle descriptions included in the volumes provide a most powerful witness to the ''slaughterhouse'' character of the Eastern Front in 1944-45.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744607576337,"sku":"NGR9781804513781","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1804513784.jpg?v=1751631508"},{"product_id":"iii-germanic-ss-panzer-korps-the-history-of-himmler-s-favourite-ss-panzer-korps-book-lennart-westberg-9781909982949","title":"III. Germanic SS Panzer-Korps - The History of Himmler's Favourite SS-Panzer-Korps, 1943-1945","description":"This photographic volume depicts Himmler's favorite unit in the Waffen-SS: the III 'Germanic' SS Panzerkorps, for it fulfilled Himmler's longtime political plans of recruiting 'Germanic' volunteers for the creation of a greater Germanic Reich in the future. As such, it consisted in part of SS volunteers from western and northern European countries. Although largely forgotten today, this elite SS unit fought on a variety of battlefields ranging from Croatia and Ingermanland's snow-covered forests near Leningrad to the historic Estonian city of Narva, where it defended the Baltic countries of Estonia and Latvia against the Red Army in 1944-45. The remnants of the Panzerkorps ended up in both the hopeless defense of Pomerania and the final apocalypse at the battle for Brandenburg and Berlin in April-May 1945, when the Third Reich went down in a storm of fire and steel. Volume 1 covers the period from the creation of the III SS Panzerkorps in the summer of 1943 until the German evacuation of Estonia in September 1944. The coverage includes the unit's involvement in anti-partisan operations in Croatia (September-December 1943), the fighting at Oranienbaum-Leningrad and the battle for Ingria (January-February 1944); the defense of the Narva bridgehead and the battles for Dorpat and the Blue Hills, finishing with the German evacuation of Estonia (February-September 1944). On the Eastern Dront, a motley mix of nationalities and individuals fought under the Swastika and subsequently it was volunteers from various countries who served in the III 'Germanic' SS Panzerkorps, including Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, Swiss, Dutch, Flemings, Walloons, Estonians, Germans and ethnic Germans from Rumania. Even a handful of renegade British volunteers turned up in this unit during the final weeks of the Second World War. All of these soldiers had widely varying reasons for joining the Waffen-SS. The 2 volumes forming this series will not only include well over 1,000 mostly unpublished photographs of the III SS Panzerkorps during 1943-45, but also a large number of previously unpublished personal battle descriptions by surviving officers and soldiers of this corps from the authors' archives of personal correspondence. The photographs are also accompanied by interesting unit histories, biographies, commentaries on weapons and vehicles, as well as analyses of battlefield tactics. These volumes also destroy the myth that the Waffen-SS was purely a military phenomenon. The Waffen-SS was, and remained, in the world and in the long-term planning of Hitler, Himmler and the SS, primarily a political-ideological institution. The multinational Waffen-SS and its esprit de corps must be seen within the context of the European fascist movements of the time and of the polarization between fascism and communism during the years between the First and Second World War. This is especially true for the III 'Germanic' SS Panzerkorps as a future cadre providing SS functionaries for the creation and maintenance of a greater Germanic Reich in the West and the colonization of Lebensraum in the East. SS propaganda deliberately associated the character of the III 'Germanic' SS Panzerkorps with the medieval Teutonic Order in the East as an historic continuity. The dream of a Germanic empire and the Nazi war of extermination against Slavs and Jews were two sides of the same coin. Despite serious flaws during the hasty creation of the III 'Germanic' SS Panzerkorps in 1943, this unit achieved a remarkably successful military performance against a numerically superior opponent, the Red Army. The corps inflicted severe losses on Soviet units during all engagements. However, the losses of the III SS Panzerkorps in manpower and equipment were also extremely high. The personal battle descriptions included in the volumes provide a most powerful witness to the 'slaughterhouse' character of the Eastern Front in 1944-45.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49759135269137,"sku":"GOR010236996","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1909982946.jpg?v=1751632834"},{"product_id":"iii-germanic-ss-panzer-korps-the-history-of-himmler-s-favourite-ss-panzer-korps-book-lennart-westberg-9781804513286","title":"III Germanic SS Panzer-Korps. The History of Himmler's Favourite SS-Panzer-Korps, 1943-1945 Volume 2","description":"\"...an impressive collection of information about the III SS Panzer Corps. Pair this with Volume I for a comprehensive look at the soldiers within the SS.\" -Historical Miniatures Gaming Society Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler regarded III. (Germanic) SS-Panzer-Korps under SSObergruppenführer Felix Steiner as his favourite unit and Steiner as his favourite general of the Waffen-SS. III. SS-Panzer-Korps was intended to ideologically unite SS volunteers from Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Belgium and Switzerland into a Germanic brotherhood - to politically serve Himmler´s plan for a Greater Germanic Empire and the colonisation in the East. Volume 2 covers the battles against the Red Army in the Baltic states, Pomerania and BrandenburgBerlin in 1944 and 1945; including the retreat from Estonia in autumn 1944, the violent positional battles in Courland in 1944-1945, the frantic fighting in Pomerania, and last but not least, the desperate battles of defeat in Berlin in 1945. In addition to previously unpublished photographs, this volume contains a wealth of unique eyewitness accounts culled from decades of interviews and correspondence with Waffen-SS veterans, as well as detailed summaries of armoured corps operations, short biographies of important personalities, statistics and information about German and Soviet tanks and weaponry, in addition to coverage of lesser-known SS units, such as SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 \"Hermann von Salza\" and schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 503. This content is supplemented by essays on key aspects on the Waffen-SS contributed by distinguished Scandinavian academic researchers on the Second World War as Professor Dr. Niels Bo Poulsen, Head of the Department of Strategy and War Studies at the Royal Danish Defence College in Copenhagen; Associate Professor Dr. Sigurd Sörlie at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies in Oslo (Norway) and Professor Dr. Lars Westerlund, former researcher at the Finnish National Archives in Helsinki. The foreword for both Volume 1 and 2 has been written by Jens Westemeier, PhD, University of Aachen with the Institute for History, Theory and Ethics in Medicine.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51605709979921,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51605710176529,"sku":"NGR9781804513286","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1804513288.jpg?v=1751631443"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-lennart-westberg.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}