The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division
Volume two continues with the survivors of the bloody fighting in France regrouping to make a final stand in the Ardennes and Hungary before Germany was overcome by the Allies. A detailed and gripping account of the most famous, and infamous, division to fight in World War II for any side. |
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Abteilung action advance American anti-tank guns approximately Ardennes Offensive Armee armored personnel carriers Armoured Division arrived artillery fire assembly area Aufklärungsabteilung August Bastogne Bataillon Battalion battle breakthrough bridgehead Brigadeführer Büllingen Bütgenbach Canadian captured Chef combat counterattack crossed December defense diary Divi Divisionsbegleitkompanie east encirclement enemy attacked enemy tanks Falaise Fallschirmjäger fighting Flak flank forces forest front line führer German Grenadierregiment Grenadiers Hauptsturmführer heavy Heeresgruppe Heeresgruppe Süd Hill Hstuf Inf.-Div Infantry Division Kampfgruppe kilometers kilometers north kilometers northwest kilometers west Kompanie Korps Krinkelt located Maas machine gun March meters moved NCOs night northeast Oberführer Oberscharführer Obersturmbannführer Obersturmführer Ostuf Panzer IVs Panzerarmee Panzerdivision Panzergrenadierregiment Panzerjägerabteilung Panzerjägers Panzerregiment positions reached reconnaissance Regiment 25 reported road Rocherath Route scouting party sector southeast southwest Soviets SS-Panzerdivision SS-Panzerkorps staff Stubaf Sturmbannführer sturmführer Sturmmann Supreme Command West terrain Tigers troops units Unterscharführer Untersturmführer Ustuf vehicles village Volksgrenadierdivision wounded