Kommando

Author : James Lucas
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1473834619
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kommando written by James Lucas and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Nazi Germany’s special forces and their efforts to reclaim military, naval and aerial superiority is recounted in this WWII history. Though Germany’s Special Forces Command had stunning capabilities, its fearsome potential was squandered due to poor coordination and planning. Units were raised ad hoc, in a desperate response to Germany's weakening position. In Kommando, historian James Lucas presents a comprehensive account of Germany's special forces and their efforts to stave off impending military defeat. At sea, flotillas of manned torpedoes and explosive motorboats were introduced. In the air, the world's first operational jet planes were grouped into special squadrons in an effort to cripple the US air offensive. On the ground, battalions of over-age men set out on foot or on bicycles towards Berlin to protect the city from the Soviet Army's tank armadas. In other parts of Germany, so-called Werewolf units recruited young people to carry out partisan warfare. Then there were the children of the Hitler Youth who committed acts of sabotage against military installations and attacked British and Americans soldiers. This classic work by a British veteran of the war presents the full story with fascinating detail and incisive analysis.

Author : James Lucas
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848327374
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kommando written by James Lucas and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping book tells the remarkable story of Germany's special forces _ military, naval and aerial _ during the Second World War. Although capable of stunning achievements against all the odds, the absence of proper coordination and planning resulted in a lost opportunity for Germany. Units were raised ad hoc, as an increasingly desperate response to Germany's ever-weakening position and the growing strength of the Allies. ??At sea, flotillas of manned torpedoes and explosive motor boats were introduced. In the air, the world's first operational jet planes were grouped into special squadrons in an effort to cripple the US air offensive. On the ground, battalions of over-age men set out on foot or on bicycles towards Berlin to protect the city from the Soviet Army's tank armadas. In other parts of Germany the Werewolf was recruiting and training young people to carry out partisan warfare. Then there were the children of the Hitler Youth, some not even in their 'teens, who committed acts of sabotage against military installations and attacked British and Americans soldiers.??Packed with useful detail and incisive analysis, this is one of the fullest and most accessible accounts of Germany's special forces and their efforts to stave off impending military defeat.

Author : Andre Sellier
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1461739497
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Dora Camp written by Andre Sellier and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2003-05-27 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In mid-1943 Nazi Germany entered a crisis from which it was to emerge vanquished. Faced with a shortage of manpower in armaments factories, the Third Reich sent concentration camp prisoners to work as slaves. While the genocide of the Jews and the Gypsies continued at extermination camps, numerous outside "Kommandos" were set up in the vicinity of the large concentration camps. The Dora Camp, located in the center of Germany, was one of the most notorious. Originally a mere Kommando attached to Buchenwald, it became one of the largest Nazi concentration camps. There prisoners were put to work in a huge underground factory, building V-2 rockets, the secret weapon developed by German scientists in an attempt to reverse the course of the war, under the direction of Wernher von Braun. In this dispassionate but powerful account, André Sellier, himself a former prisoner at Dora, tells the dramatic story of the camp, the tunnel factory, and the underground work sites. He has utilized all available documents as well as unpublished testimony from several dozen fellow prisoners. He recounts the horrors of everyday life at Dora—prisoners dying by the hundreds and indescribable suffering—and the murderous "evacuation" of the camp by railroad convoys and death marches, which took place in early 1945 and led to the death of thousands of prisoners. Illustrated with 20 pages of photographs and drawings, and 24 maps.

Author : Leo Kessler
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kommando written by Leo Kessler and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Hitler's special commando forces in the Second World War, led by Admiral Canaris, head of the German Secret Service, looking a operations which ranged over a dozen countries and three continents.

Author : Lore Shelley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Union Kommando in Auschwitz written by Lore Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Weichsel Union fuse factory was installed at Auschwitz in September 1943, after having been evacuated from Zaporozhe, Ukraine. Workers at the Union factory, the largest employer of female slave labor in Auschwitz, soon came to number ca. 2,500 and were known as the Union Kommando. Their work and living conditions were relatively good. The book comprises 36 memoirs of Jewish men and women, most of whom were Union Kommando members. Includes a memoir by Yisrael Gutman (pp. 144-160); he and some others also describe Jewish resistance at Auschwitz and the role of Union workers in the Sonderkommando uprising of October 1944. Discusses, also, unsuccessful efforts of former Weichsel Union slave laborers to receive compensation, while the firm received 2.5 million marks for the loss of its Auschwitz fuse factory.

Author : South Africa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Government Gazette Extraordinary written by South Africa and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Spillner
Publisher : New York : Bowker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International dictionary of abbreviations of organizations written by Paul Spillner and published by New York : Bowker. This book was released on 1970 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A list of more than 50,000 abbreviations with an international bibliography of dictionaries of abbreviations.

Author : Michael Peschke
Publisher : De Gruyter Saur
ISBN 13 : 9783598241543
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comprehensive Dictionary of Acronyms and Abbreviations of Institutions and Organizations: Il-Mr written by Michael Peschke and published by De Gruyter Saur. This book was released on 2001 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : South Africa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1232 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Government Gazette written by South Africa and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shlomo Venezia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745683770
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Gas Chambers written by Shlomo Venezia and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters disappeared on arrival, and he learned, at first with disbelief, that they had almost certainly been gassed. Given the chance to earn a little extra bread, he agreed to become a ‘Sonderkommando', without realising what this entailed. He soon found himself a member of the ‘special unit' responsible for removing the corpses from the gas chambers and burning their bodies. Dispassionately, he details the grim round of daily tasks, evokes the terror inspired by the man in charge of the crematoria, ‘Angel of Death' Otto Moll, and recounts the attempts made by some of the prisoners to escape, including the revolt of October 1944. It is usual to imagine that none of those who went into the gas chambers at Auschwitz ever emerged to tell their tale - but, as a member of a ‘Sonderkommando', Shlomo Venezia was given this horrific privilege. He knew that, having witnessed the unspeakable, he in turn would probably be eliminated by the SS in case he ever told his tale. He survived: this is his story. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.