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Chargement... In Final Defense of the Reich: The Destruction of the 6th SS Mountain Division, Nordpar Stephen M. Rusiecki
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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 Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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While I can wonder if Rusiecki admires the history of this particular division a bit more than it deserves, one can understand his fascination with it. There being the process by which a glorified security division overcame its origins as a scratch force (after a notoriously bad beginning), became capable of a forced march out of Finland when the tables turned in that alliance, and then kept fighting when all the odds were against it. If you're still looking for a Waffen SS unit with a usable history this might be your best candidate.
As for the 71st, this was a relatively unheralded late-war unit that had the virtue of several "Old Army" regiments being assigned to it, and in its case you can call it an example of how the U.S. Army learned lessons on the fly in war to create very good formations across the board. What else you will learn from this monograph is the care and feeding of boundary lines between divisions and corps and how light armor was used in World War II in the traditional roles of recon and harrying enemy forces on the run. (