Soldiers of Destruction : : The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945 - Updated Edition / / Charles Sydnor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Sydnor, Charles,
• TeilnehmendeR: Sydnor, Charles.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --; PREFACE TO THE 1990 EDITION --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER ONE. The Prewar Background: The Development of the Concentration Camp System and the SS Totenkopfverbände --; CHAPTER TWO. The Polish Campaign and the Creation of the SS Totenkopfdivision --; CHAPTER THREE. Growing Pains: December 1939-May 1940 --; CHAPTER FOUR. The SS Totenkopfdivision and the Battle of France --; CHAPTER FIVE. The Long Interlude: Occupation Duty and Transfer to the East --; CHAPTER SIX. The SS Totenkopfdivision and the War in Russia: June 1941-January 1942 --; CHAPTER SEVEN. The Soviet Counteroffensive: Encirclement in the Demyansk Pocket, January-October 1942 --; CHAPTER EIGHT. Perpetual Crisis: The Fiihrer's Firemen, 1943-1945 --; CHAPTER NINE. Some Observations: Ideology, Personality, and the Question of Totenkopf Criminality --; AFTERWORD --; POSTSCRIPT TO THE 1990 EDITION --; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691214160; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691214160?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Charles Sydnor.

Charles Sydnor relates the political and military experience of the SS Totenkopfdivision to the institutional development of the SS and the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany.