For the Homeland: The History of the 31st Waffen-SS Volunteer Grenadier Division
by Rudolf Pencz
Category: History

Formed in the fall of 1944, the 31st Waffen-SS Voluteer Grenadier Division was composed mainly of ethnic Germans living in Hungary. After a brief period of train-ing, the division endured its baptism of fire against the Red Army in the Hungarian sector of the Eastern Front in late 1944. The 31st then participated in the battles south-east of Berlin, where the division fought until its battered remnants surrendered to the Soviets in May 1945. Rudolf Pencz's carefully researched account records the complete history of this rarely covered Waffen-SS formation.