SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, 1941 1945 - Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Paperback)

Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia 1942 - 1945 describes how the occupying Nazis recruited Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian conscripts into the Waffen-SS. Unlike her Latvian neighbour, Lithuania had no plans to provide Germany with a National Legion. Although volunteers came forward, the majority did not. This was not the case for Latvia and Estonia, which undertook huge recruitment programmes, and thousands of men were drafted into their own foreign legion of Waffen-SS Grenadier divisions. After intensive training, these divisions saw action on the Eastern front, around Leningrad, in the Ukraine, before vicious defensive operations as the Red Army smashed its way through the Baltic States in 1944\. Even in the last dying weeks of the war, what was left of the Baltic soldiers of the 15th, 19th and 20th Waffen-SS Grenadier Divisions, continued to fight alongside their Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS counterparts until they were either destroyed or surrendered. The story of these divisions is graphically told with detailed captions and text together with many contemporary images in true Images of War style.

General

Imprint:	Pen & Sword Military
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2021
Authors:	Ian Baxter
Dimensions:	246 x 189 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-1-399-01298-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-399-01298-3
Barcode:	9781399012980

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