Lost Honour, Betrayed Loyalty by Herbert Maeger

Lost Honour, Betrayed Loyalty by Herbert Maeger

As an 18-year old Belgian, Herbert Maeger was blackmailed into volunteering for the Waffen-SS in 1941 in order to save his mother from being sent to a concentration camp. After enduring harsh training with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, considered by some to be a worse experience than serving at the fighting front, Maeger went on to be selected as a front line driver in Russia. He saw combat at Kharkov and at the legendary Battle of Kursk. In 1944 he was transferred out for training as an SS paramedic, but after two months was sent, again against his will, for SS-officer training. Overheard making a defeatist remark, he was sent to the notorious SS penal division Dirlewanger on the Oder Front, with which he survived the horror of the Halbe pocket. On 1 May 1945, Maeger was captured by the Russians near the Elbe. Held in a Russian prisoner of war camp, he served in its infirmary as a volunteer, which won him the admiration of the Russian female doctor. It was with her help that he gained his early release the same year. This is an unrivalled account of one man's service in the elite Waffen-SS Leibstandarte division, principally on the Eastern Front.

HERBERT MAEGER was born at Hergenrath/Eupen in Belgium on 10 November 1922. After release from Soviet captivity in late 1945 he settled in West Germany and began pre-clinical training. He obtained German citizenship on 21 June 1971. He was unable to return to Belgium for decades after the war, having been sentenced to life imprisonment in his absence, by a military tribunal at Verviers on 19 February 1947, for having borne arms against Belgium's allies, in particular as a member of the Waffen-SS.

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ISBN 13	9781526768858
ISBN 10	1526768852
Titel	Lost Honour, Betrayed Loyalty
Autor	Herbert Maeger
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2019-11-06
Seitenanzahl	272
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