Hitler's Gauls: The History of the 33rd Waffen Division Charlemagne

Hitler's Gauls: The History of the 33rd Waffen Division Charlemagne

by Jonathan Trigg
Hitler's Gauls: The History of the 33rd Waffen Division Charlemagne

Hitler's Gauls: The History of the 33rd Waffen Division Charlemagne

by Jonathan Trigg

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Overview

The divisions of the Waffen-SS were among the elite of Hitler’s armies in World War II, alongside the Germans in the Waffen-SS fought an astonishingly high number of volunteers from other countries. By the end of World War II, these foreign volunteers comprised half of all Hitler’s Waffen-SS, and filled the ranks of more than 24 of the nominal 38 Waffen-SS divisions. So during the most brutal war that mankind has ever known hundreds of thousands of men flocked to fight for a country that was not theirs, and for a cause that was one of the most monstrous and barbaric in history. This examination explores one of these legions of volunteers, the Charlemagne division, who were recruited entirely from conquered France. The men in Charlemagne fought hard on the Eastern Front, often motivated by an extreme anticommunist zeal. This book is an authoritative record of this unit and the men who fought in it.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780752454764
Publisher: The History Press
Publication date: 05/01/2010
Series: Hitler's Legions Series
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Trigg is the author of Hitler's Flemish Lions and Hitler’s Jihadis.

Table of Contents

List of Maps 7

Acknowledgements 9

Introduction 11

I France: The Rise of the Extreme Right 15

II Germany: The Birth of the Waffen-SS 21

III 1940: Blitzkrieg and French Collapse 29

IV The Waffen-SS and Foreign Recruitment 41

V Frenchmen on the Eastern Front: The LVF 53

VI Formation of the SS-Sturmbrigade Frankreich 65

VII French SS First Blood: Galicia 73

VIII A New Beginning: The Formation of Charlemagne 85

IX Hell in the Snow: Pomerania 97

X Götterdämmerung in Berlin: The End of Days 129

XI Aftermath: The Reckoning 159

XII Military Impact. Was it worth it? 169

Appendix: Waffen-SS Ranks 177

Bibliography 179

Index 181

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