The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer DivisionPart two of the defining work on Hitler's elite fanatical boy soldiers 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. |
Contents
The Battles Between the Touques and Seine 121 | |
Withdrawal from Northern France | |
The Division during the Battles in Slovakia | |
the Start of the Action in Slovakia 380 | |
Section The Division in Rearguard and Defensive | |
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Abteilung action advance American antitank guns approximately Armee armored personnel carriers Armoured Division arrived artillery fire assembled assembly area Aufklärungsabteilung August Bastogne Bataillon Battalion battle breakthrough bridgehead Brigadeführer Büllingen Bütgenbach Canadian captured combat counterattack crossed December defense diary Divisional command post Divisional Kampfgruppe Divisionsbegleitkompanie east encirclement enemy attacked enemy tanks Falaise Fallschirmjägers fighting flank forces forest front line German Grenadiers Hauptsturmführer heavy Heeresgruppe Süd Hill Hstuf Hugo Kraas Inf.Div Infantry Division Kampfgruppe kilometers kilometers north kilometers northwest kilometers southeast kilometers west Kompanie Korps Krinkelt located Maas machine gun March meters moved night northeast Oberführer Oberscharführer Oberstgruppenführer Obersturmbannführer Obersturmführer Ostuf Ostuſ Panzer IVs Panzerarmee Panzerdivision Panzergrenadierregiment Panzerjägers Panzerkorps Panzerregiment reached reconnaissance Regiment 25 reported road Rocherath Route scouting party sector situation southwest Soviets SSPanzerdivision SSPanzerkorps staff Sturmbannführer Sturmmann Supreme Command West terrain Tigers troops units Unterscharführer Untersturmführer vehicles village Volksgrenadierdivision wounded