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A European anabasis : Western European volunteers in the German army and SS, 1940-1945 / Kenneth William Estes.

Title

A European anabasis : Western European volunteers in the German army and SS, 1940-1945 / Kenneth William Estes.

Author

Estes, Kenneth W.

Publication

Solihull : Helion, 2015.
©2014

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xv, 210 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 25 cm

Summary

Kenneth Estes studies the 100,000 West Europeans who fought against Russia as volunteers for the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS. A retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, Estes shows tremendous knowledge of combat and writes gripping battlefield prose. Two-thirds of the West European volunteers came from Spain and the Netherlands, yet Estes demonstrates wide range and covers Flemish, Walloon, French, Danish, and Norwegian combat units. Avoiding over-generalization, the author distinguishes carefully among the Danes and Flemings who fought competently with the SS-Wiking Division and later with Nordland, the courageous but poorly-armed Spanish, the ill-trained Dutch and French in Landstorm Nederland and SS-Charlemagne, and the Norwegians who after a first wave of enthusiasm held back altogether. Estes pulverizes the Nazi propaganda notion of a multinational European army defending 'Western civilization' against 'Bolshevism'.

Alternative Title

Western European volunteers in the German army and SS, 1940-1945

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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committed to retain

ISBN

9781909384521
1909384526

OCLC

908371048

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Harvard Library