Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare [electronic resource] : The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union /
Pieper, H.author.
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.
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Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables, Maps, and Images; Tables; Maps; List of illustrations (with captions); Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Elite Sportsmen: The Pre-war SS-Reiterstandarten; The mentality of the SS equestrians; The SS-Hauptreitschule and athleticism in the SS; From horsemen to potential soldiers; 2 Brutal Occupation: The SS Cavalry in Poland; Creating mounted units from scratch; The effect of indoctrination and ideology; The development of a military character; 3 The SS Cavalry Brigade and Operation Barbarossa; The deployment of SS killing squads
Entering combat: the SS cavalry on the Narew riverLull in East Prussia at the beginning of the Shoah; Heinrich Himmler's speech on 5 July 1941; Minor combat operations in the Pripet Marshes; Excursus: the officer corps; 4 Mass Violence in the Pripet Marshes; The first mission and the Pinsk massacre; Perpetrator history (I): conditioning to killing; 'Combat experiences: none'; The second mission in the Pripet Marshes; Perpetrator history (II): behaviour and morale; The impact on the escalation of the Holocaust; 5 Partisan Warfare in the Soviet Union; Belorussia; Russia
6 The Winter Battle West of Moscow, 1941-1942Structural changes within the unit in late 1941; Baptism of fire: combat at Toropets and Rzhev; The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Waffen-SS; Conclusion; Glossary; SS ranks; SS, Wehrmacht, and police terms; Abbreviations; Short biographies of perpetrators from the SS Cavalry Brigade; Notes; Bibliography; Unpublished primary sources; Printed primary sources; Secondary sources: books; Secondary sources: articles; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Waffen-SS. Kavallerie-Brigade
Europe-History.
Europe, Central-History.
Military history.
World War, 1939-1945.
Russia-History.
Europe, Eastern-History.
History, Modern.
European History.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
History of Military.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
Modern History.