Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare

The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union
2015. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-45631-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4336 g

Reihe: The Holocaust and its Contexts

The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a 'dual role': SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pieper, H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Elite sportsmen: The Pre-War SS-Reiterstandarten 2. Brutal Occupation: The SS Cavalry in Poland 3. The SS Cavalry Brigade and Operation 'Barbarossa' 4. Mass Violence in the Pripet Marshes 5. Partisan Warfare in the Soviet Union 6. The Winter Battle West of Moscow, 1941 - 1942 Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Henning Pieper was educated at the Universities of Freiburg, Germany, Nottingham and Sheffield, UK. His research focuses on the Waffen-SS and Germany's difficult process of coming to terms with the Nazi past.