Panzers East and West: The German 10th SS Panzer Division from the Eastern Front to NormandyRowman & Littlefield, 01.09.2017 - 400 Seiten Organized and trained during 1943, the 10th SS Panzer Division saw its first action in the spring of 1944 during the relief of an encircled German army on the Eastern Front. Several months later, in response to the Allied invasion at Normandy, the division returned to the West in mid-June 1944. Here the division engaged in a series of armored attacks and counterattacks against British and American forces. The 10th SS briefly held off a few enemy thrusts but gradually had to fall back to Falaise, where the division escaped the Allied encirclement with no tanks and only a fraction of its men. The 10th SS Panzer Division next defended against the Allied parachute assault during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. Depleted and now a division in name only, the 10th SS fought in Alsace before Hitler sent it to the Eastern Front again. There, east of Berlin, the division participated in the final battles to enable the escape of German soldiers and civilians from Soviet captivity. |
Inhalt
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Chapter 2 Commitment of the 10th SS Panzer Division in the East | 53 |
Chapter 3 Normandy | 105 |
Chapter 4 Withdrawal of the 10th SS Panzer Division through Northern France and Belgium to the Meuse | 165 |
Chapter 5 Holland | 179 |
Chapter 6 Commitment of the 10th SS on German Soil | 225 |
Chapter 7 Commitment of the 10th SS Panzer Division during Operation Wacht am Rhein and Northwind | 251 |
Chapter 8 Return to the East | 269 |
Appendix E Training Plan Staff Company | 315 |
Appendix F Theoretical Table of Organization | 318 |
Appendix G Table of Organization | 323 |
Appendix H Table of Organization | 325 |
Appendix I Theoretical Table of Organization | 327 |
Appendix J World War II Rank Equivalents | 331 |
Appendix K Combat Vehicles | 333 |
Endnotes | 337 |
Epilogue | 301 |
Appendix A Georg von Frundsberg | 305 |
Appendix B Theoretical Table of Organization | 307 |
Appendix C Panzer Regiment Organization | 311 |
Appendix D Panzer Division Staff | 313 |
Selected Bibliography | 365 |
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About the Author | 383 |
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