Die Waffen-SS

The texts collected in this volume by experts in the field explore hitherto neglected subject areas and develop new questions on the history of the armed SS. They include approaches to biographical, structural, social and operational history. The role of female personnel in the Waffen-SS, networks within the Führer Corps, and the motivation of foreign volunteers and forced recruits are examined. The book also offers studies on soldiers who came from Yugoslavia, Romania, Estonia, Denmark and Norway. Both war crimes and the involvement of Waffen-SS units in the Holocaust are explained by way of example. The military achievements of the Waffen-SS on the battlefield are the subject of exemplary analyses. Thus a differentiated picture of the Waffen-SS, its organisational structure, its Pe.