A wiking - hadosztály a cserkaszi katlanban / Háborús krónikák 4. / SS-önkéntesek a gyilkos jégmezőkön / SS volunteers on the lethal ice fields - Hungarian WW2 history book / Szalay Könyvek - Pannon-Literatúra 2012

Paperback 2012

PAGES: 31

ISBN: 9789632514215  /  978-9632514215

ISBN-10: 9632514211

PUBLISHER: Pannon-Literatúra

LANGUAGE: Hungarian / Magyar

Hungarian Summary:

A Waffen-SS (magyarul fegyveres védosztag) az SS katonai szárnya volt.

Az önkéntesekből álló SS Karhatalmi Csoportból nőtt ki, amit azért hoztak létre, hogy az általános SS (Algemeine SS) tagjai - kezdetben önkéntes alapon - ott tölthessék le katonai szolgálati idejüket. Mozgósítás esetén azonban már eredetileg is a hadsereggel együtt szándékoztak bevetni.

1939-ben gépesített hadosztállyá szervezték, ekkor létszáma 56 ezer fő volt. 1940-ben kapta a Waffen SS nevet. A háború idején folyamatosan nőtt, a háború végére már 38 hadosztályt, mintegy 950 000 tagot foglalt magába. A bővüléssel arányosan csökkent a németek aránya az SS hadosztályokban… 

The Waffen-SS (German: [ˈvafn̩ʔɛsˌʔɛs], "Armed SS") was the military branch of the Nazi Party's SS organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with volunteers and conscripts from both occupied and unoccupied lands.

The Waffen-SS grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions during World War II, and served alongside the Heer (regular army), Ordnungspolizei (uniformed police) and other security units. Originally, it was under the control of the SS Führungshauptamt (SS operational command office) beneath Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. With the start of World War II, tactical control was exercised by the High Command of the Armed Forces (OKW), with some units being subordinated to Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS (Command Staff Reichsführer-SS) directly under Himmler's control.

Initially, in keeping with the racial policy of Nazi Germany, membership was open only to people of Germanic origin (so-called Aryan ancestry). The rules were partially relaxed in 1940, and after Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, Nazi propaganda claimed that the war was a "European crusade against Bolshevism" and subsequently formed units consisting of largely or solely of foreign volunteers and conscripts. These Waffen-SS units were made up of men mainly from among the nationals of Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite relaxation of the rules, the Waffen-SS was still based on the racist ideology of Nazism, and ethnic Poles (who were viewed as subhumans) were specifically barred from the formations.