Soldiers Of Destructions: The SS Death Head Division (1989) By Charles W. Sydnor. Jr
 
Charles Sydnor relates the political and military experience of the SS Totenkopf Division to the institutional development of the SS and the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany.
 
An account of the SS Totenkopf Division (Death's Head), formed in October 1939 from SS elements guarding the concentration camps and from shadowy SS execution units working in Poland, both of which brought with them the brutal ethos to what became one of the most powerful and destructive SS Divisions, responsible for the massacre of 97 Norfolk Regiment prisoners at Paradis in 1940 France, resting and refitting in western France until the invasion of USSR in 1941, pulling out with 80% losses in October 1942 to France, reforming as Panzergrenadiers and helping to occupy Vichy France before returning to the Eastern front in February 1943 for the Kharkov-Kursk campaign, withdrawing via Warsaw and involved in Hitler's last-ditch efforts to retake Budapest in 1945 before surrendering,
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
371 Pages
In Good Condition