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Perfect for those interested in World War II, German armored divisions, and the role of Waffen SS in Normandy 1944.
One was trained for blitzkrieg and iron discipline. The other, for ambushes, tunnels, and jungle survival. In a head-to-head clash, who has the edge—Germany’s Waffen SS or Vietnam’s Vietcong?
Waffen-SS 14th Galicien Division recruitment poster. The text reads: "He who wants to live must fight, and he who refuses to fight in this world of eternal struggle—he has no right to live.
Latvia has a remembrance day for members of the Latvia Legion, an arm of the Nazi German Waffen-SS. Many Hungarians revere their own wartime leader, Adm. Miklos Horthy, an ally of Hitler.
Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass, author of the great anti-Nazi novel The Tin Drum, has admitted serving in the Waffen SS. He told a German newspaper he had been recruited at the age of ...
In 1940, following Germany’s invasion of Romania, Baretzki, labeled “ethnic German,” saw a tremendous shift in his life. From his time in resettlement camps, he turned to driving for a shipping ...
The university’s Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies received endowments and donations worth more than $1-million from Ukrainians who served in the Waffen-SS Galicia division or who helped ...
Angela Hamilton, for example, suspected her deceased Romanian father, Pál Roszy, had been “helping the Nazis” because he was a violent man and rabid anti-Semite.
These days I have been reading Goodbye Transylvania, by Sigmund Heinz Landau, the memoirs of a Waffen-SS soldier from Romania. Here we are no longer in the realm of legend but before a chilling ...
A panel to discuss the Waffen SS was quietly cancelled at the University of Alberta after professors there complained that the institution continues to engage in whitewashing Nazi crimes.