Himmler's Favourite. The Combat History of III (Germanic) SS Panzerkorps: Volume 1: From Formation to Autumn 1944

The remnants of the Panzerkorps ended up in both the hopeless defense of Pomerania and the final apocalypse at the battle for Brandenburg and Berlin in April-May 1945, when the Third Reich went down in a storm of fire and steel. Even a handful of renegade British volunteers turned up in this unit during the final weeks of WWII. The personal battle descriptions included in the volumes provide a most powerful witness to the ‘slaughterhouse’ character of the Eastern Front in 1944-45.. These two photographic volumes depict Himmler´s favorite unit in the Waffen-SS: the III ‘Germanic’ SS Panzerkorps, for it fulfilled Himmler´s longtime political plans of recruiting ‘Germanic’ volunteers for the creation of a greater Germanic Reich in the future. All of these SS soldiers had widely varying reasons for joining the

Martin Mansson is the founder of Sweden's largest private held non-profit website dedicated to the Holocaust and has held lectures about this theme for students at various prep schools. Among other things, he has written a number of articles on the Holocaust, Nazi and Soviet art thefts in WWII, the Great Nordic War 1700-1721, Swedish Intelligence and chryptography in WWII and Scandinavian volunteers in the Waffen-SS. SS Panzer Corps (SMB 2011) and has lent his assistance to some forty books world-wide. He also authored "Norwegian officers in the Waffen-SS", "Hitler's Norwegian Ski Jager", and "N

Lennart Westberg is Detective Lieutenant in the Swedish Police Force and elected Member of the Swedish Military Commission. A Photographic Chronicle of Hitler's Reichsfuehrer-SS" (Schiffer Publications 2000). He also authored "Norwegian officers in the Waffen-SS", "Hitler's Norwegian Ski Jager", and "Norwegian volunteers on the German side" 1, 2 and 3. He is now working on and collecting data for 6 new books. His specialty is the Reichs Security Main Office, the