SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, 1941–1945

SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, 1941–1945
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Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 9781399012997
ISBN-13 : 1399012991
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Download or read book SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, 1941–1945 written by Ian Baxter and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia 1942 - 1945 describes how the occupying Nazis recruited Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian conscripts into the Waffen-SS. Unlike her Latvian neighbor, Lithuania had no plans to provide Germany with a National Legion. Although volunteers came forward, the majority did not. This was not the case for Latvia and Estonia, which undertook huge recruitment programs, and thousands of men were drafted into their own foreign legion of Waffen-SS Grenadier divisions. After intensive training, these divisions saw action on the Eastern front, around Leningrad, in the Ukraine, before vicious defensive operations as the Red Army smashed its way through the Baltic States in 1944. Even in the last dying weeks of the war, what was left of the Baltic soldiers of the 15th, 19th, and 20th Waffen-SS Grenadier Divisions, continued to fight alongside their Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS counterparts until they were either destroyed or surrendered. The story of these divisions is graphically told with detailed captions and text together with many contemporary images in true Images of War style.


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