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Rupert Butler m •.-' i r *s /-- ( i v . The stor Waffen-SS THE BLACK ANGELS The Story ofthe Waffen-SS Ci l 'c/ ' THE BLACK ANGELS The Story ofthe Waffen-SS Rupert Butler Hamlyn Paperbacks THE BLACK ANGELS isbn 600 39429 8 First published 1978 by Hamlyn Paperbacks Copyright © 1978 by Rupert Butler Second printing 1978 Hamlyn Paperbacks are published by The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, Astronaut House, Feltham, Middlesex, England Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks Thisbookis sold subjecttothecondition thatit shall not, by way oftrade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated with- out the publisher'spriorconsent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition in- cluding this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. CONTENTS Bibliography vi Acknowledgements vii THE BLACK ANGELS 1 SS Ranks and theirequivalents 276 ILLUSTRATIONS There are 21 photographic illustrations. Grate- ful acknowledgements are due to the Wiener Library for permission to use illustration num- ber 3, to Mr Brian L. Davis for illustration number 15, and to the Imperial War Museum forall theotherillustrations in this book. BIBLIOGRAPHY Aitken, Leslie, mbe, Massacreon theRoadto Dunkirk (WilliamKimber 1977) Carell, Paul, Scorched Earth: Hitler's War on Russia, vol. 2 (Harrap 1970) Clark, Alan, Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict 1941-45 (Hutchinson 1965) Elstob, Peter, Hitler'sLast Offensive (Seeker & Warburg 1971) Hohne, Heinz, TheOrderofthe Death'sHead(Seeker &Warburg 1966) Jolly, Cyril, The Vengeance ofPrivate Pooley (Heinemann 1956) Keegan, John, Waffen-SS: The Asphalt Soldiers (Macdonald 1970) Kruuse, Jens, Madness at Oradour (Seeker & Warburg 1969) Lucas, James and Matthew Cooper, Hitler's Elite: Leibstandarte-SS (Macdonald & Jane's 1975) McKee, Alexander, Caen: Anvil of Victory (White Lion 1964) Manvell, Rogerand Heinrich Fraenkel, Heinrich Himmler (Heinemann 1975) Meyer, Kurt, Grenadiere (Schild Verlag 1957) Neumann, Peter, OtherMen'sGraves(Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1958) Preston, Anthony (ed.), Decisive Battles of Hitler's War (Chartwell Books, Inc. 1977) Reitlinger,.Gerald, The SS: Alibi ofa Nation (Heinemann 1956) & Russell ofLiverpool, Lord, The Scourge ofthe Swastika (Cassell Co. 1954) Sauer, Karl, Die Verbrechen der Waffen-SS (Roderberg 1977) Seth, Ronald, Jackals ofthe Reich (New English Library 1972) & Shirer, William L., The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (Seeker Warburg 1960) Stein, George H, The Waffen-SS (Cornell University Press 1966) TrevorRoper, Hugh (ed.), The Goebbels Diaries: TheLast Days(Seeker &Warburg 1978) Tulley, Andrew, Berlin: StoryofaBattle(Simon &Schuster, NewYork 1963) Weingartner, James T., Hitler's Guard (Southern Illinois University Press 1968) Whiting, Charles, Huntersfrom the Sky (Leo Cooper 1975) Whiting, Charles, Massacre at Malmedy (Leo Cooper 1971) Wyles, Alan, Himmler (Pan/Ballantine 1972) & Second World War, History ofthe: Waffen-SS (Purnell Sons) World War II Special: 'The Warsaw Ghetto No Longer Exists' (Orbis Publishing Ltd) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In preparing this book I owe a great debt to Mr James Lucas, Mr Terry Charman, and Mr George Clout and the staff of the Imperial War Museum, London, for their patience in supplying material, answering countless questions No and reading the final manuscript. story of the Waffen-SS can be written without reference to 'Hitler's Elite: Leibstandarte SS' by James Lucas and & Matthew Cooper (Macdonald Jane's, 1975). I am grateful for Mr Lucas's per- mission to consult his history of the campaigns of Hitler's elite. I am in equal debt to the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library, London. Its staff gave me access to translations of evidence submitted at the Inter- national Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, and other documents relating to the My Waffen-SS. thanks also to the staff of Wandsworth Library who allowed me to consult its large collection of books on World War II. Valuable re- search and assistance has also been given by Mr Malcolm Hudson, Mr Mel Bray, Mr William Fowler and Mr Michael Gunton. ' 7 swear to you, Adolf Hitler, as Fuhrer andReich Chancellor, loyaltyandbravery. I vow to you, and those you have named to command me, obedience unto death. So help me God. The oath sworn by members of the LeibstandarteSSAdolfHitlerinNovem- ber 1933 and after that by every man who entered the ranks ofthe WarTen-SS. *A new man, the storm soldier, the ilite of Central Europe. A completely new race, cunning, strong andpacked with purpose battle proven, merciless both to him- . . . self and others' Ernst Jiinger, German poet and novelist.
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