In final defense of the Reich : the destruction of the 6th SS Mountain Division "Nord" / Stephen M. Rusiecki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rusiecki, Stephen M.

Contributor:

Association of the United States Army.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--Germany.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe, Northern.

Waffen-SS. SS-Gebirgs-Division Nord, 6.

Waffen-SS.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In April 1945 the American 71st Infantry Division exacted the final vestiges of life from the Reich's 6th SS Mountain Division in central Germany. On Easter weekend, the bypassed German division fought to the very end as they were first surrounded and then destroyed as a fighting force. Rusiecki argues that the battle demonstrates that the Wehrmacht's last gasp on the Western Front was anything but a whimper as some historians charge. Instead, many of Germany's final combat formations fought to the very end against a chaotic tableau of misery, destruction, and suffering to exact every las

Contents:

Birth of the Nord Division

Operation Nordwind and beyond

The Saar-Palatinate falls

Convergence

Nord falls behind, 31 March 1945

The first day : Assenheim and Altenstadt, 1 April 1945

The second day : Waldensberg, 2 April 1945

The second day : Leisenwald, 2 April 1945

The third day : dissolution, 3 April 1945

Completing the record

Appendix A. Table of comparative ranks

Appendix B. Glossary of terms and equipment

Appendix C. Select order of battle.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-96468-9

9786613793935

1-61251-001-9

OCLC:

712016179