Western European volunteers in the German army and SS, 1940-1945
Edición de la obra European Anabasis
| Autor | Kenneth W. Estes |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Helion |
| Fecha de publicación | 2015 |
| Lugar | Solihull |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 210 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781909384521 |
| ISBN-10 | 1909384526 |
| OCLC | 908371048 |
| LCCN | 2014466267 |
| Número de Cutter | E79e |
Kenneth Estes studies the 100,000 West Europeans who fought against Russia as volunteers for the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS. A retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, Estes shows tremendous knowledge of combat and writes gripping battlefield prose. Two-thirds of the West European volunteers came from Spain and the Netherlands, yet Estes demonstrates wide range and covers Flemish, Walloon, French, Danish, and Norwegian combat units. Avoiding over-generalization, the author distinguishes carefully among the Danes and Flemings who fought competently with the SS-Wiking Division and later with Nordland, the courageous but poorly-armed Spanish, the ill-trained Dutch and French in Landstorm Nederland and SS-Charlemagne, and the Norwegians who after a first wave of enthusiasm held back altogether. Estes pulverizes the Nazi propaganda notion of a multinational European army defending 'Western civilization' against 'Bolshevism'.