Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781612005256
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2017
Imprint: Casemate Publishers
Series: Casemate Illustrated
Illustrations: 100
Description:
The 2nd SS Division, “Das Reich,” was a battlefront mainstay for Nazi Germany throughout WWII—from the invasion of Poland in 1939 to the final surrender in May 1945. In between it was switched back-and-forth between east and west depending on the crisis, and it fought in nearly every major campaign, from Barbarossa to Normandy, and from Kharkov to the Ardennes. Das Reich was the first Waffen SS division created (though the title “1st” was reserved for Hitler’s Leibstandarte).