TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sydnor,Charles
AU  - Sydnor,Charles
TI  - Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945 - Updated Edition 
SN  - 9780691214160
U1  - 940.541343 22
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - France
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Regimental histories
KW  - Germany
KW  - HISTORY / Military / World War II
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Auschwitz
KW  - Baltic Sea
KW  - Bavaria
KW  - Cambrai
KW  - Clamecy
KW  - Cottbus
KW  - Czechoslovakia
KW  - Danube River
KW  - Demyansk
KW  - Epernay
KW  - Estaires
KW  - Gauleiter
KW  - Grodno
KW  - Italy
KW  - Kiev
KW  - Kirovograd
KW  - Latvia
KW  - Le Cateau
KW  - Moscow
KW  - Munich
KW  - Normandy
KW  - Novgorod
KW  - Orel
KW  - Paderborn
KW  - Polish Corridor
KW  - Poltava
KW  - Psel River
KW  - Riga
KW  - Rumania
KW  - Russia
KW  - Stadelheim prison
KW  - Stalin line
KW  - Toulon
KW  - Toulouse
KW  - Ukraine
KW  - Vienna
KW  - Villefranche
KW  - Vyazma
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --; PREFACE TO THE 1990 EDITION --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER ONE. The Prewar Background: The Development of the Concentration Camp System and the SS Totenkopfverbände --; CHAPTER TWO. The Polish Campaign and the Creation of the SS Totenkopfdivision --; CHAPTER THREE. Growing Pains: December 1939-May 1940 --; CHAPTER FOUR. The SS Totenkopfdivision and the Battle of France --; CHAPTER FIVE. The Long Interlude: Occupation Duty and Transfer to the East --; CHAPTER SIX. The SS Totenkopfdivision and the War in Russia: June 1941-January 1942 --; CHAPTER SEVEN. The Soviet Counteroffensive: Encirclement in the Demyansk Pocket, January-October 1942 --; CHAPTER EIGHT. Perpetual Crisis: The Fiihrer's Firemen, 1943-1945 --; CHAPTER NINE. Some Observations: Ideology, Personality, and the Question of Totenkopf Criminality --; AFTERWORD --; POSTSCRIPT TO THE 1990 EDITION --; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Charles Sydnor relates the political and military experience of the SS Totenkopfdivision to the institutional development of the SS and the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691214160?locatt=mode:legacy
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