The 12th Ss Panzer Division Hitlerjugend

Author : Adrian Dragoș Defta
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527571358

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The 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" by Adrian Dragoș Defta Pdf

This book demythologises one of the top Waffen-SS units during the Second World War, the Hitlerjugend Division. In addition to bringing together new research in European historiography, it also represents an innovative scientific approach using social psychology. It provides insights into inner psychological mechanisms that facilitated moral disengagement and culminated in the division’s unparalleled combat motivation and war crimes. Best known for their alleged fanaticism, Nazi indoctrination and inclination to perpetrate atrocities, Hitlerjugend soldiers are analysed here using perspectives drawn from across sociology, anthropology and psychology.

Author : Tim Saunders,Richard Hone
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526757371

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12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division in Normandy by Tim Saunders,Richard Hone Pdf

The history of the armored division comprised of German teenagers in the Normandy campaign, drawing on new materials from former Eastern Bloc archives. Raised in 1943 with seventeen-year-olds from the Hitler Youth movement, and following the twin disasters of Stalingrad and ‘Tunisgrad,’ the Hitlerjugend Panzer Division emerged as the most effective German division fighting in the West. The core of the division was a cadre of officers and NCOs provided by Hitler’s bodyguard division, the elite Leibstandarte, with the aim of producing a division of ‘equal value’ to fight alongside them in I SS Panzer Corps. During the fighting in Normandy, the Hitlerjugend proved to be implacable foes to both the British and the Canadians, repeatedly blunting Montgomery’s offensives, fighting with skill and a degree of determination well beyond the norm. This they did from D+1 through to the final battle to escape from the Falaise Pocket, despite huge disadvantages, namely constant Allied air attack, highly destructive naval gunfire, and a chronic lack of combat supplies and replacements of men and equipment. Written with the advantage of new materials from archives in the former Eastern Bloc, this book is no whitewash of a Waffen SS division and it does not shy away from confronting unpalatable facts or controversies. Includes photographs

Author : Hubert Meyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811769235

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The 12th SS by Hubert Meyer Pdf

Part two of the defining work on Hitler's elite fanatical boy soldiers continues with the survivors of the bloody fighting in France regrouping to make a final stand in the Ardennes and Hungary before Germany was overcome by the Allies. A detailed and gripping account of the most famous, and infamous, division to fight in World War II for any side.

Author : Rupert Butler
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782742944

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SS-Hitlerjugend by Rupert Butler Pdf

SS-Hitlerjugend is an in-depth examination of the unit formed in 1943 from veterans of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division and members of the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) organization. The majority of the recruits were 17-year-old volunteers who were fanatically devoted to the Nazi cause and to Hitler personally.

Author : Massimiliano Afiero
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781636241692

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12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend by Massimiliano Afiero Pdf

A fully illustrated account of the infamous 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, from their formation through to the fierce battles for Caen. The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend was formed in 1943 from members of the Hitler Youth who had been born in 1926, primarily as an emergency response force in France to repel the expected Allied invasion from the sea. Training was initially haphazard due to lack of equipment, however in March 1944 it was attached to I SS Panzer Corps and transferred to Normandy. Based around Caen, it was intended to repel a possible and expected invasion from the sea. When the invasion came in June, it was one of the two closest panzer divisions to the landing beaches, engaging Allied paratroopers at dawn. Once the Allied bridgehead was established, Hitlerjugend deployed to Caen. The defensive battles that took place in Normandy, particularly the four battles around the city of Caen, saw the young soldiers of the Hitlerjugend demonstrate determined resistance, conceding only due to being greatly outnumbered. Packed with photographs, maps and profiles, this Casemate Illustrated follows the actions of the 12th SS Panzer Division through formation and training to the four battles for Caen.

Author : Hubert Meyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811769228

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The 12th SS by Hubert Meyer Pdf

This defining work on Hitler's elite fanatical boy soldiers details the creation and training of these teenage warriors and their baptism of fire in the Normandy campaign in World War II. Written by the division's former chief of staff, Volume 1 details all aspects of the division's history with a balanced mix of tactical and strategic accounts.

Author : Craig W.H. Luther
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0764342673

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Blood and Honor by Craig W.H. Luther Pdf

The 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth" was formed in early 1943 following the German disaster at Stalingrad in Russia, and was trumpeted by German propaganda as a symbol of the willingness of German youth to make the ultimate sacrifice for Führer und Vaterland. Most of the division s soldiers were born in 1926, and averaged barely eighteen years of age when they underwent their baptism of fire among the verdant fields and hedgerows of Normandy on 7 June 1944. Anchoring the eastern flank of the Normandy front, these young SS soldiers successfully defended the strategically vital town of Caen against British and Canadian forces until finally overwhelmed a month later by the Allies' enormous superiority in men and materiel. Although the "Hitler Youth" Division was largely annihilated in the process, it won the grudging respect of Allied forces as the finest German division faced in Normandy. The author's account of its history is based largely on primary source materials, including extensive archival holdings, published memoirs, official histories, and numerous interviews with former division members.

Author : Hubert Meyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016863164

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The History of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision "Hitlerjugend" by Hubert Meyer Pdf

Kortbogen indeholder detaljerede operationskort over de operationer 12 SSPNDIV deltog i bl.a. kampene om Caen, operation GOODWOOD, operation TOTALIZE, operation TRACTABLE, kampene ved FALAISE CAULDRON, MAAS, HÜNNINGEN og SADZOT.

Author : Angelos Mansolas
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Reaper's Harvesting Summer by Angelos Mansolas Pdf

I know every single one of these grenadiers. The oldest is barely eighteen. These boys have not yet learned how to live, but by God they know how to die! These were the words of the division s commanding officer, SS Oberführer Kurt Meyer for his own men men admired even by their very opponents. Established in 1943, the 12th SS Panzer Division was designed to become an elite unit, consisting of 17 year-old youths, a generation of future soldiers, tough as leather and hard as Krupp steel , commanded by a nucleus of hardened SS officers and NCOs. This is a detailed history of the division from its formation, all through the Normandy campaign where it received its baptism of fire. Although employed in the field for the first time, those young Waffen SS soldiers fought with a tenacity and ferocity unexcelled by any other unit Allied or German deployed in the invasion front, defending doggedly every single yard of ground from Caen to Falaise a distance of just 25 miles, for which the Canadian and British forces fought hard to capture, paying a high price in human lives.

Author : Hubert Meyer
Publisher : 12th SS
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0811739287

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12Th Ss by Hubert Meyer Pdf

This defining work on Hitler's elite fanatical boy soldiers details the creation and training of these teenage warriors and their baptism of fire in the Normandy campaign in World War II. Written by the division's former chief of staff, Volume 1 details all aspects of the division's history with a balanced mix of tactical and strategic accounts.

Author : Craig W. H. Luther
Publisher : R. James Bender Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0912138386

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Blood and Honor by Craig W. H. Luther Pdf

Author : JEFF. WOOD DUGDALE (IAN MICHAEL.),Ian Michael Wood
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526760509

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The Waffen SS Order of Battle in Normandy by JEFF. WOOD DUGDALE (IAN MICHAEL.),Ian Michael Wood Pdf

The 12th SS-Panzer Division Hitlerjugend was committed to the Normandy battles on the 7th June 1944 and remained on the front line until the retreat from France in late August 1944.The division, often referred to as the 'Baby Milk Division' by the Allies, fought with a tenacity and fanaticism rarely equaled in modern warfare, with many of its young soldiers fighting to the death rather than surrender.The aim of this series on the Waffen SS divisions in the Normandy Campaign is to detail the exact composition, strength and losses of all the SS Panzer units that saw combat in summer of 1944. The varying organisations of each of these large armoured units were immensely complex, with each division having a different structure to its sister units. Each book in the series will be crammed with hitherto unpublished information, with the minutely detailed tables offering a unique insight into late war SS Panzer Divisions. They will not only highlight the armor and weaponry, but also the extraordinarily large divisional 'tail', comprising numerous supply and maintenance sections, each essential in keeping the fighting elements functioning effectively.

Author : David Greentree
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472825612

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Hitlerjugend Soldier vs Canadian Soldier by David Greentree Pdf

Canadian and Waffen-SS troops of 12. SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend faced one another in a series of bloody battles following the D-Day landings of June 1944. The Canadian units fought in a number of distinguished regiments, while the Hitlerjugend Division were drawn from the ranks of the Hitler Youth organizations. Veteran officers and NCOs were joined by inexperienced teenagers, and clashed with the Canadians repeatedly, notably at Authie, Bretteville and Hill 168. The struggle quickly took on an especially bitter nature, fuelled by the massacre of Canadian prisoners by Hitlerjugend personnel. Employing first-hand accounts and the latest research, as well as specially commissioned artwork and carefully selected archive photographs this absorbing study investigates the origins, ethos, training, fighting techniques and weapons of both sides during the epic struggle for Normandy.

Author : Meyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:489552556

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The 12th SS by Meyer Pdf

Author : Kurt Meyer
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811731979

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Grenadiers by Kurt Meyer Pdf

Reprint of the classic World War II memoir German General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer's autobiography is a fascinating insight into the mind of one of Germany's most highly decorated and successful soldiers of World War II. If you love small-unit actions, this is the book for you. Follow Meyer with the 1st SS-Panzer Division "Leibstandarte" and the 12th SS-Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend," from the first day of the war in Poland, through service in France, Russia, and Greece, up until his capture in Normandy in 1944 and his postwar trials and tribulations.