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From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 2 - Volume II: the Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps in the Budapest Relief Efforts, December 1944-February 1945 (Hardcover)
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From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 2 - Volume II: the Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps in the Budapest Relief Efforts, December 1944-February 1945 (Hardcover)
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On Christmas Eve 1944, the men of the IV SS-Panzerkorps were
preparing to celebrate the occasion as best they could. Taking
advantage of the pause in the fighting around Warsaw, they looked
forward to partaking in that most German of holidays, including the
finest Christmas dinner their field kitchens could still prepare in
this fifth year of the war. They had earned it too; after five
months of unrelenting combat and the loss of many of their friends,
troops from the corps headquarters, headquarters troops, and its
two divisions - the 3rd SS Panzer Division “Totenkopf” and the
5th SS Panzer Division “Wiking” - were eagerly anticipating
what the holiday would bring, including presents from home and
perhaps sharing a bottle of schnapps or wine with their comrades.
This was not to be, for that very evening, the corps commander,
SS-Obergruppenführer Herbert Otto Gille, received a telephone call
notifying him that the 35,000 men of his corps would begin boarding
express trains the following day that would take them from the
relative quiet of the Vistula Front to the front lines in Hungary,
hundreds of kilometers away. Their mission: Relieve Budapest! Thus
would begin the final round in the saga of the IV SS-Panzerkorps.
In Hungary, it would play a key role in the three attempts to raise
the siege of that fateful city. Threatened as much by their high
command as by the forces of the Soviet Union, Gille and his troops
overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their attempts to
rescue the city’s garrison, only to have their final attack
called off at the last minute. At that moment, they were only a few
kilometers away from the objective towards which they had striven
for nearly a month. After the relief attempt’s failure sealed the
fate of hundreds of thousands of Hungarians and Germans, the only
course of action remaining was to dig in and protect the Hungarian
oilfields as long as possible. face=Calibri>
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