Beschreibung:
The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a 'dual role': SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front.
The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a 'dual role': SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front.
Introduction 1. Elite sportsmen: The Pre-War SS-Reiterstandarten 2. Brutal Occupation: The SS Cavalry in Poland 3. The SS Cavalry Brigade and Operation 'Barbarossa' 4. Mass Violence in the Pripet Marshes 5. Partisan Warfare in the Soviet Union 6. The Winter Battle West of Moscow, 1941 - 1942 Conclusion