New Waffen ss volunteer book

[book lover]

Any comments?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0198790554...I2M4VV0JZLXWX4

[FrenchVolunteer]

Hi,

100 usd for 400 pages, yeah right !

See You

Vince

[MarcRikmenspoel]

It's Oxford University Press. That means it is meant to be sold to the libraries of other universities, they don't intend for ordinary people to buy the book

[Mil-Archive]

It's on bookdepository for EUR 63.90 with free delivery.

http://www.bookdepository.com/The-Wa.../9780198790556

The editor, Robert Gerwarth wrote a good book on Heydrich. This link (currently) shows the Cover, and chapter listing, contributor bios and first 15 pages:

http://www.academia.edu/29804117/B%C...iversity_Press

[jmcm]

Says 20 pictures in 400 pages?

[Mil-Archive]

Here is a list of the illustrations from this link :

http://www.academia.edu/29804117/B%C...iversity_Press

List of Illustrations
1. Key personnel involved in the internationalization of the Waffen-SS: Heinrich Himmler (centre), Gottlob Berger (second from right), Hanns Albin Rauter (left), and the leader of Dutch SS, Henk Feldmeijer (second row, first right), during Himmler’s visit to the Netherlands in 1944.
Bundesarchiv Koblenz, 147-0482
2. ‘With the SS and the Norwegian Legion against the common enemy . . . against Bolshevism.’ SS recruitment poster displayed in Norway, June 1942.
Bundesarchiv Koblenz, 003-025-037
3. Danish Waffen-SS volunteers in the northern Soviet Union during the evacuation of wounded soldiers, summer 1942.
Bundesarchiv Koblenz, 101III-Borelli-007-30
4. A Norwegian SS volunteer interrogates Russian POWs on the eastern front, summer 1942.
Bundesarchiv Koblenz, 146-1986-053-17
5. Free Corps Denmark on exercise in Poland in 1942. In the centre is Corps Commander Christian Frederik von Schalburg.
Courtesy of Frihedsmuseet (Denmark)
6. Belgian volunteers from Wallonia during ideological training at the
SS-Junkerschule
(officer-training school) in Bad Tölz, Bavaria, 1942–3.
Bundesarchiv Koblenz, 101III-Junkerschule Toelz-5214-20
7. A French Waffen-SS volunteer in Paris, October 1943.
Bundesarchiv Koblenz, 101III-Apfel-017-30
8. ‘For Honour. For Life.’ Recruitment poster for the Italian SS.
Courtesy of Istituto Storico della Resistenza e dell’Età Contemporanea (Macerata, Italy)
9. A Greek
Evzonas
under SS command posing next to an executed Resistance member, Greece, 1943.
Bundesarchiv Koblenz 179-1552-13
10. ‘Protect your Homeland! Destroy Bolshevism.’ SS recruitment poster used in Estonia, 1943.
Bundesarchiv Koblenz, 003-045-013
11. Ukrainian auxiliaries with the SS Galician Division in the Bilgoraj region on anti-partisan operation ‘Werewolf’, summer 1943.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (Warsaw, Poland)
List of Illustrations
12. Banat normality between 1942 and 1944: A family with the father in the uniform of an
SS-Sturmmann
, serving in the ‘Prinz Eugen’ Waffen-SS Division, which to a large degree was composed of ethnic Germans.
Courtesy of Elli Bartl
13. Albanian Muslims in the recruitment office of the Skanderbeg Division. In the background, a portrait of Hitler has been hung next to an image of the Albanian patron saint, Skanderbeg.
National Archives and Record Administration, USA, Kriegsberichter Westermann, 17a
14. Bosnian Muslims in SS uniforms at prayer, November 1943.
Bundesarchiv Koblenz, 146-1977-137-20
15. Te military training area of Neuhammer (Silesia), November 1943: Te Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Amin al-Husayni, visits Bosnian Waffen-SS volunteers. Second from left (with cigarette) is Husein Đozo, imam of the 28th Regiment of the ‘Handžar’ Waffen-SS Division.
National Archives and Record Administration, USA, Kriegsberichter Mielke, 11a
16. Men from the ‘Handžar’ Waffen-SS Division, May 1944. Te wounded are carried to the dressing station.
Bundesarchiv Koblenz, 101III-Wiesebach-174-30A
17. Last defenders: Two young Latvian SS soldiers with an anti-tank weapon during the Tird Battle of Courland, 1944–5.
Bundesarchiv Koblenz, 146-1983-003-16
18. Defendants during the Oradour massacre trial, Bordeaux, 1953. Twenty-one of the former SS men—fourteen of them volunteers from Alsace—were sentenced.
Getty Images.
19. ‘We are not leaving a single comrade in the no-man’s land of uncertainty.’ Poster for the 1959 convention of former Waffen-SS soldiers in Hameln, organized by the HIAG (Mutual Aid Association of Former Waffen-SS members).
Bundesarchiv Koblenz, 005-041-003
20. Te
Europastein
(Europe Stone) on Mount Ulrich (Ulrichsberg) in Carinthia, Austria. Erected in 1994, the
Europastein
has become the site of annual multinational commemorations of SS veterans claiming that the war against Bolshevism was a war for Europe.
Copyright: Martin Juen

The conference mentioned in the acknowledgements sounds as if it would have been interesting. I will probably put this on my list of books to buy. If anyone has read it I'd be interested in a first hand review.

Acknowledgements

The present volume is the result of a sustained collaborative effort over several years. It began with a conference at the University of Toruń in May 2014, and the editors would like to note their special thanks to Jacek Andrzej Młynarczyk for hosting this event. We are also grateful to the conference participants and commentators who provided extensive critical input. Neither the conference nor subsequent meetings of several contributors, including those in Dublin and Jena in 2015, would have been possible without the generous funding provided by the Fritz Tyssen Foundation and the Gerda Henkel Foundation. It is with profound gratitude that we acknowledge their critical support. We are also immensely grateful to our editorial team at Oxford University Press—notably Robert Faber and Cathryn Steele—for the enthusiasm with which they have seen the book through from conception to production. Two anonymous reviewers for OUP went beyond the call of duty in providing critical input and we thank them hugely for their helpful comments. All in all, we could not have hoped for a smoother review and production process.Finally, we wish to thank our contributors, whose abiding commitment to the project carried it over the finishing line. Editing a book with more than thirty contributors from across Europe and further afield was a daunting enterprise, but our team of authors managed to make our work remarkably easy and intellectually fulfilling. Jochen Böhler and Robert Gerwarth
Summer 2016

[macleod]

Hi,

many thanks for bringing this to our attention. A little pricey, but that's academic books for you. I think it looks very promising.

regards

macleod