This is the complete history of one of the most famous and well-known divisions of the Waffen-SS. Created as a mountain unit to be employed exclusively on the Balkan Front against partisan units, the
Goebbels’ 1941 propaganda campaign, to present Germany's invasion of the USSR as a battle for European civilization against Asian barbarism, convinced many men in occupied 'Germanic' European countrie
The military career of Jochen Peiper, one of the most valiant and decorated officers of the Waffen SS, told through the main battles and campaigns, which involved the units under his command, especial