Hitler's Guard: The Story of Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, 1933-1945

194pp. Dust jacket in protective mylar.

From Publisher:

Focusing on the Leibstandarte s members as soldiers, this account contributes significantly to military history of the World War II period.The Leibstandarte originated in March 1933 as an elite staff guard for Hitler s chancellery, when Hitler personally gave the order for its formation to his longtime associate and bodyguard, Sepp Dietrich. The guard soon proved loyalty to Hitler by eliminating the Fuhrer s real and imagined enemies in the blood purge of 1934. As an elite military unit, which it became during the war, it fought in the last major offensive against the Western Allies in December 1944January 1945, as a kind of tangible representation of Hitler on the battlefield.Based largely on captured German SS and army records Weingartner s account thus forms a unique and valuable record of the party-military organization, the SS in microcosm."

Product Info

ISBN: 0809306824

ISBN-13: 9780809306824

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press

Year: 1974

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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