{"product_id":"iii-germanic-ss-panzer-korps-the-history","title":"Iii Germanic Ss Panzer Korps The History","description":"A detailed account of the III. SS-Panzer-Korps'' retreat from Estonia, battles in Courland, Pomerania, and Berlin, featuring rare photos and veteran accounts.Heinrich Himmler regarded the III. (Germanic) SS-Panzer-Korps under SS-Obergruppenführe Felix Steiner as his favorite unit and general in the Waffen-SS. This SS-Panzer-Korps was supposed to ideologically unite SS volunteers from Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Belgium and Switzerland into a Germanic brotherhood - intended to politically serve Himmler´s plan of a Greater Germanic Empire and the colonization in the East. Battles against the Red Army in the Baltic states, Pomerania and Brandenburg-Berlin 1944 and 1945.Volume 2 deals with the retreat from Estonia in autumn 1944, the violent positional battles in Courland in 1944-45, the frantic fighting in Pomerania, but not last but not least, the desperate battles of defeat in Berlin in 1945.In addition to unique and unpublished photographs, the volume contains a wealth of unique eyewitness accounts from decades of interviews and correspondence with Waffen-SS veterans, detailed summaries of armored corps operations, short biographies of interesting personalities, facts about German and Soviet weapons and tanks, and lesser-known SS units, such as SS-Panzer-Abteilung 11 \"Hermann von Salza\" and schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 503. Distinguished WWII-researchers have contributed with essays on key aspects of the Waffen-SS.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57395340706174,"sku":"NW9781804513286","price":46.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781804513286.jpg?v=1778674695","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/iii-germanic-ss-panzer-korps-the-history","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}