THE GERMAN WEHRMACHT IN WWII: UNIT HISTORIES: WAFFEN-SS, PANZER & ELITE TROOPS 65 Commanders of Auschwitz: The SS Officers The Spanish in the SS and Wehrmacht, 1944-45: Police Battalions of the Third Reich Stephen Who Ran the Largest Nazi Concentration The Ezquerra Unit in the Battle of Berlin M. Gil Campbell. The role that the German Police Battalions Camp 1940-45 Jeremy Dixon. Finally a single Mart’nez. The story of those few Spaniards who refused played in the destruction of the Jews and the Eastern volume detailing the SS officers that served in the to abandon their German comrades in their desperate fight European nationalities that the Third Reich had deemed largest and most infamous of Hitler’s concentration to hold Berlin in the last days of the war. This day-by-day superfluous or dangerous is little known. The German camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Inside you will meet account of the last weeks of the war includes information Police, often aided by local auxiliaries shot at close range the commandants, Lagerführers, doctors, dentists, about anti-partisan operations of the Spanish in the north over a million people in less than two years. Later in Gestapo officials, adjutants, administration officers, of Italy, the combat together with the Walloons of Leon the war the battalions were formed into regiments and sentry commanders. Degrelle, and their participation in operations against the and absorbed into the SS where they were active Size: 8.5"x11" • 130 bw photos • 232pp. maquis in France. in the hunt for partisan bands behind the front lines. ISBN: 0-7643-2175-7 • hard • $59.95 Size: 7"x10" • 270 color/bw photos • 224pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 120 bw photos • 160pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-4271-4 • hard • $45.00 ISBN: 978-0-7643-2771-1 • hard • $59.95 The Camp Women: The Female Auxiliaries SS Officers List (as of January 1942) SS-Stan- Combat Operations of the German Ord- Who Assisted the SS in Running the Nazi dartfuhrer to SS-Oberstgruppenfuhrer – As- nungspolizei 1939-45: Polizei-Bataillone • Concentration Camp System Daniel Patrick signments and Decorations of the Senior SS SS-Polizei-Regimenter Rolf Michaelis. Covers Brown. The first complete resource devoted to Officer Corps. The January 1942 “Dienstalterliste" the little known combat operations of the Ger- the SS-Aufseherinnen – the female guards of the lists the hundreds of officers in the SS from full man Ordnungspolizei during WWII. Discussed are German concentration camps during WWII. In Colonel to General. Detailing their posts at that time unit formations, personalities, and operations addition, the role of the girl’s youth organization during the war, this facsimile wartime publication including frontline combat, security duties in in developing future overseers, and the eventual also gives significant decorations they were awarded. occupied countries, as well as the participation recruitment, training, and employment of these Their ranks and most recent promotion dates are of some battalions in ethnic cleansing atrocities. women is likewise examined. listed as well as State, Police and NSDAP posts. Also included are very rare photos, documents, Size: 8.5"x11" • 50 bw photos • 288pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 45 bw photos • 64pp. soldbuchs and maps. ISBN: 0-7643-1444-0 • hard • $59.95 ISBN: 0-7643-1061-5 • soft • $19.95 Size: 8.5"x11" • 120 bw photos/maps • 128pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-3659-1 • hard • $45.00 In Perfect Formation: SS Ideology and the SS-Junk- Atrocities at Camp Mauthausen: A Vi- erschule-Tölz Jay Hatheway. Extensive references to Heinrich Himmler: A Photographic Chronicle sual Documentation of the Holocaust. original source material on the underlying SS principles of Hitler’s Reichsführer-SS Martin Månsson. Two first hand accounts about Mauthausen of blood, soil, and struggle as they were formalized in Many books have been written about Heinrich concentration camp, Austria, by Franz Zieres, SS ideology. In support of his intricate linkages between Himmler and the SS though, strangely, no photo- commandant of Mauthausen, and Charles- ideology and its realized form, Hatheway has obtained graphic study has ever been assembled. Contained Heinz Pilarski, a soldier in the German army over 100 previously unpublished photos of the SS officer within this volume are over 380 photos of Himmler, who was court-martialed and imprisoned in training academy Tölz. More than a series of buildings, illustrating his entire career – from a soldier during the camp. These memoirs, along with photos the structure of the Junkerschule was itself a metaphor WWI through the years when he was the second taken upon the liberation of the camp, are a vivid record of the Final Solution. for the subset of Nazi ideology. most powerful man in Europe. Size: 9"x6" • 24 bw photos • 64pp. Size: 6"x9" • 100 bw photos • 192pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 380 bw photos • 200pp. ISBN: 0-7643-1777-6 • soft • $19.95 ISBN: 0-7643-0753-3 • hard • $29.95 ISBN: 0-7643-1202-2 • hard • $59.95 The Cruel Hunters: SS-Sonderkommando Dirle- The SS-Sonderkommando “Dirlewanger": A The Last Knight of Flanders: Remy Schrijnen wanger–Hitler’s Most Notorious Anti-Partisan Memoir Rolf Michaelis, Editor. A rare look inside the and his SS-Legion “Flandern"/Sturmbrigade Unit French L. MacLean. The Dirlewanger Battalion, Sonderkommando “Dirlewanger," the SS anti-partisan “Langemarck" Comrades on the Eastern Front also known as “Sonderkommando Dirlewanger" was unit notorious for atrocities in Poland and Russia during 1941-45 Allen Brandt. This is the story of the Flemish perhaps the least understood, but at the same time WWII by a member of the unit from its formation to the volunteers of Germany’s famed Waffen-SS, told by the most notorious German SS anti-partisan unit in end of the war who took part in nearly all its operations. those who were there. The book centers around Remy WWII. Medieval in their outlook on war and certainly Size: 6"x9" • 44 bw photos • 128pp. Schrijnen, the only Flemish volunteer to win the heralded not indicative of many German military formations, this ISBN: 978-0-7643-4479-4 • hard • $29.99 bravery award, the Knight’s Cross to the Iron Cross. unit is a reflection of a segment of mankind gone mad Size: 6"x9" • 110 bw photos/maps • 272pp. in the inferno of WWII on the eastern front.Size: 6"x9" ISBN: 0-7643-0588-3 • hard • $29.95 • 50 bw photos/maps • 336pp.ISBN: 978-0-7643-0483-5 hard • $35.00 The Camp Men: The SS Officers Who Ran Himmler’s Cavalry: The Equestrian SS 1930-45 Images of the Waffen-SS: A Photo Chronicle the Nazi Concentration Camp System French Paul J. Wilson. Dressed in black uniforms emblazoned of Germany’s Elite Troops Mark C. Yerger. This L. MacLean. Inside these pages you will meet over with the SS flash, Heinrich Himmler’s horsemen carried heavily illustrated photo album on the infamous 960 infamous men – the officers of Nazi Germany’s the SS banner across the German countryside and to Waffen-SS provides material for the model builder, Totenkopf (Death’s Head). These men stood on equestrian competitions throughout Germany and vehicle enthusiast, memorabilia collector and those the front-line of the Nazi war to exterminate the Europe. Wilson provides numerous anecdotes, statistics, interested in SS holders of the Knight’s Cross. Jews. With well over one hundred photos – a and capsule biographies of Equestrian SS personnel. Size: 9"x12" • 320 bw photos • 176pp. large portion previously unpublished – this is the Size: 6"x9" • 17 bw photos • 224pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0078-4 • hard • $49.95 largest collection of SS camp personnel photos ISBN: 0-7643-1112-3 • hard • $29.95 ever to appear in one work. Size: 8.5"x11" • 140 bw photos/maps • 384pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0636-7 • hard • $59.95 The Field Men: The SS Officers Who Led the Riding East: The SS Cavalry Brigade in Waffen-SS in the West: Holland, Belgium, Einsatzkommandos – the Nazi Mobile Killing Poland and Russia 1939-42 Mark C. Yerger. France 1940. The sought after original SS publi- Units French MacLean. Men lined up in four motorized Riding East details the history of the SS Cavalry cation Waffen-SS im Westen is available here for columns immediately behind the German Army on June Brigade. It's supplemented by 109 photos, six the first time. Translated into English and carefully 22, 1941, as it prepared to launch Operation Barbarossa, maps, six Order of Battle charts, complete officer reproduced, this rare SS book photographically an attack designed to win the war. The Field Men rosters 1939-42, feldpost numbers, details of documents the Waffen-SS campaigns in Holland, covers the entire gamut, from the organization of the primary commanders within the Brigade, as well Belgium, and France during 1940. units, to the SS officers who served in this scourge on information on the units and commanders it was Size: 8.5"x11" • 130 bw photos • 144pp. the Eastern Front. Some 380 SS officers are described subordinated to. ISBN: 0-7643-1553-6 • hard • $29.95 in full detail and extensively analyzed. Size: 8.5"x11" • 100 bw photos • 224pp. Size: 8.5"x11" • 175 bw photos/maps • 232pp. ISBN: 0-7643-0060-1 • hard • $59.95 ISBN: 0-7643-0754-1 • hard • $59.95 The Ghetto Men: The SS Destruction of the Allgemeine-SS: The Commands, Units and The Mountain Troops of the Waffen-SS 1941-45 Jewish . April-May 1943 French MacLean. The Leaders of the General SS Mark C. Yerger. Roland Kaltenegger. The first comprehensive study on 28-day siege of the Warsaw Ghetto was one of The commands, units and leaders of the General the little-known mountain troops of the Waffen-SS, the most protracted large-scale urban battles SS are finally compiled into a single detailed refer- complete with numerous photos and documentation.