SS-Leibstandarte: The History of the First SS Division, 1933-45, Rupert Butler

SS-Leibstandarte: The History of the First SS Division, 1933-45, Rupert Butler.
 Looks at the history of the Leibstandarte, Hitler's bodyguard and later the first SS Division. The Leibstandarte gained an impressive military reputation (after a ropey start), but also committed war crimes on almost every front it served, including mass murder in the east, the murder of British and French POWs in 1940 and US POWs in 1944, and of villagers in Italy
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