Großer Bildband über die Waffen-SS.

Paul Hausser

Nation Europa

FALLSCHIRMJÄGER DER WAFFEN-SS IM BILD by Kunzmann-Milius, oversize hardcover, no dust jacket as issued, pictorial covers. SS Fallschirmjäger Battalion 600 (previously 500) was a unit created in 1943 from about 1000 volunteers and prisoners. In 1944 the Italian famously tried to smash the leadership of the Yugoslav Communist partisans and Tito in a parachute drop. It also played a key role in the occupation of Budapest in spring 1944. In spring 1945 it saw fierce fighting in actions against the advancing Soviets on the Oder. Written by the unit's last commander, this book contains many rare photos, and includes captions in English! 151 pages.

Fallschirmjager der Waffen-SS im Bild (Paratroopers of the Waffen-SS in Photos)

Kunzmann-Milius

This book is the classic official unit photo history of the premier division of the Waffen-SS in World War Two; which by wars end evolved into a Panzer Division that had fought from the first to the last day of the war on almost every front. This is their story in photos with captions in English and German. Originally formed as the SS-V.T. Division, it was composed of three of the original four regiments: Deutschland; Germania; and Der Fuhrer. In this capacity it participated in the French Campaign as a swift motorized division in the main drive on Rotterdam, after which it breached a strongly defended canal line in France; from which it attacked all the way to the Spanish border. After the blitzkrieg of France, the division was renamed Reich and transferred to Roumania. In the invasion of Yugoslavia in April of 1941, swift advanced units of the division captured the capital Belgrade, effectively knocking that country out of the war. 
In the pre-emptive strike against the Stalinst Soviet Union, the unit was assigned to the Panzers of Army Group Center for the main effort, and participated in the massive battles of encirclement that characterized that campaign, coming to within a few miles of the Kremlin in the final bid to take the Red Capital. Exhausted from continuous action, the division now faced the Soviet Counter-Offesive in some of the bitterest winter weather it would ever face. Fighting for its very life, Reich staved off assault after assault amidst staggering losses on both sides; but Reich endured. 
Pulled out of the line once the front stabilized, it was reformed into Panzer-Grenadier Division Das Reich and sent back to the front just as it was collapsing after the debacle of Stalingrad. Arriving in the nick of time with other Waffen-SS Panzer formations, it spearheaded the counter-attack at Kharkov that re-captured the city and re-formed the front. In the battle of Kursk, it thrust some forty miles into the Soviet lines, before that offensive was called off; after which it was re-formed again, this time to a full Panzer Division. 
D-Day found the Division in Normandy, where it participated in all of the hardest fighting. Fighting in the Ardennes, the unit was finally transferred to the East again where it fought against it's old enemy the Communists with diminishing capacity to the very bitter end. This is their heroic story in photos, taken for the most part by the front line fighters themselves in the smoke, noise, fire, fear, fury, and death, of combat action; providing a colossal monument to one of the most potent and elite combat formations in military history.

Division Das Reich In Photos (Division Das Reich Im Bild)

Weidinger, Otto.

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Großer Bildband über die Waffen-SS.

Fallschirmjager der Waffen-SS im Bild (Paratroopers of the Waffen-SS in Photos)

Division Das Reich In Photos (Division Das Reich Im Bild)