Totenkopf
Bayeux: Editions Heimdal, 2006. Hardcover. Tall 4to., 480 pp., Black and white plates, text illustrations. maps. This new album includes over 600 previously unpublished photos in addition to exceptional documentation. Relates the complete history of this armored division, whose core was originally composed of concentration camps guards; almost exclusively on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945. There, it took part in the fiercest battles, like those in Kharkov, Kursk, Warsaw & Vienna. In May 1945, it surrendered to the Americans, who instantly handed them over to the Soviets. A division roused to fanaticism like no other, it left numerous atrocities in its wake, the most famous being maybe the massacre of British prisoners in the "ferme du Paradis" in May 1940. Other crimes are also related in detail. Fine. Item #107202514
Price: $100.00