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From the Realm of a Dying Sun - Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July-November 1944 (Volume I) (Hardcover)
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From the Realm of a Dying Sun - Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July-November 1944 (Volume I) (Hardcover)
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During World War Two, the armed or Waffen-SS branch of the Third
Reich's dreaded security service expanded from two divisions in
1940 to 38 divisions by the end of the war, eventually growing to a
force of over 900,000 men until Germany's defeat in May 1945. Not
satisfied with allowing his nascent force to be commanded in combat
by army headquarters of the Wehrmacht, Heinrich Himmler, chief of
the SS, began to create his own SS corps and army headquarters
beginning with the SS-Panzerkorps in July 1942. As the number of
Waffen-SS divisions increased, so did the number of corps
headquarters, with 18 corps and two armies being planned or
activated by the war's end. While the histories of the first three
SS corps are well known, the IV SS-Panzerkorps - which never fought
in the west or in Berlin but participated in many of the key
battles fought on the Eastern Front during the last year of the war
- has been overlooked. Activated during the initial stages of the
defence of Warsaw in late July 1944, the corps, consisting of both
the 3. and 5. SS-Panzer Divisions (Totenkopf and Wiking,
respectively) was born in battle and spent the last ten months of
the war in combat, figuring prominently in the battles of Warsaw,
the attempted Relief of Budapest, Operation Spring Awakening, the
defence of Vienna, and the withdrawal into Austria where it finally
surrendered to American forces in May 1945. Herbert Otto Gille's IV
SS-Panzerkorps was renowned for its tenacity, high morale and,
above all, its lethality, whether conducting a hard-hitting
counterattack or a stubborn defense in situations where its
divisions were hopelessly outnumbered. Often embroiled in heated
disputes with its immediate Wehrmacht higher headquarters over his
seemingly cavalier conduct of operations, Gille's corps remained to
the bitter end one of the Third Reich's most reliable and
formidable field formations.
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