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SS TOTENKOPF - FRANCE 40: Campaign Photo Diary of the Totenkopf Division May 1940 (Historie & Collections)
SS TOTENKOPF FRANCE 40 Campaign Photo Diary of the Totenkopf Division May 1940 - Historie & Collections Author:Eric Lefe'vre Published in 1942 with the title Damals, this album is aimed at enhancing the reputation of the SS-Totenkopf-Division, a rather unusual motorized Waffens-SS formation whose nucleus had been shaped with concentration camp guards, the sadly famous ss-Totenkopfverbande. Proof had to be given through text and photos that in 1940, on the battlefields... more » of France, this division displayed the same value as the best Wehrmacht divisions.Eric Lefe'vre has added a historical account of the unit and a biography of its commander SS-Gruppenfuhrer Eicke to the original facsimile. Each of the 89 photos and each text forms the subject of remarks and necessary annotations by the same writer.Eric Lefe'vre is a well-known specialist of the WWII German Amy.TrilingualEnglish/French/German« less