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Tiger Battalion 507 - Eyewitness Accounts from Hitler's Regiment (Hardcover)
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Tiger Battalion 507 - Eyewitness Accounts from Hitler's Regiment (Hardcover)
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_ May the army of millions of dead of all nations bear witness to
humanity for the hope that future generations may learn to discard
war as the best way to resolve their differences.'_ Helmut
Schneider This is the little-known story of Heavy Panzer (Tiger)
Battalion 507 told through the recollections of the men who fought
with the unit. The book was conceived during a reunion of the 507'
at Rohrdorf in 1982, where it was agreed to set up an editorial
committee under Helmut Schneider, himself a veteran of the
battalion, to search for as many survivors of the unit as possible
and gather their reminiscences. The resulting account is a treasure
trove of first-hand material, from personal memories, diary entries
and letters to leave passes, wartime newspaper cuttings, Wehrmacht
bulletins and more than 160 photographs. The account follows the
unit from its formation in 1943 and the catastrophic events on the
Eastern Front, through battles on the Western Front and engagements
against the American 3rd Armoured Division to the confusion of
retreat, panic-stricken flight and Soviet captivity in the closing
stages of the war. Honest and unflinching, this remarkable
collection of autobiographies offers a glimpse into life in
Hitler's panzer division and is a stark testimony of a generation
that sacrificed its best years to the war. This is the first
English-language translation of the work.
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