There, east of Berlin, the division participated in the final battles to enable the escape of German soldiers and civilians from Soviet captivity. Depleted and now a division in name only, the 10th SS fought in Alsace before Hitler sent it to the Eastern Front again. The first volume, just released, covers the background of the corps, its creation and history until September 1944. Germanic SS Panzer-Korps is being released in two volumes by the UK publisher Helion & Company. Men of Max Simons 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf, many of whom are. The corps was formed in April 1943 and first commanded by the former Wiking commander Felix Steiner. Small Soviet infiltration squads were already firing on the main supply route (the. The 10th SS Panzer Division next defended against the Allied parachute assault during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. XII MB Dragoons and 26 Field Russian/German tank recoveredfrom a lake after 62. The 10th SS briefly held off a few enemy thrusts but gradually had to fall back to Falaise, where the division escaped the Allied encirclement with no tanks and only a fraction of its men.
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Here the division engaged in a series of armored attacks and counterattacks against British and American forces. Several months later, in response to the Allied invasion at Normandy, the division returned to the West in mid-June 1944. Field Marshal Günther von Kluges Army Group Center would attack from the north flank of the bulge, with Colonel General Walther Models Ninth Army leading the effort, General Hans Zorns XLVI Panzer Corps on the right.
Organized and trained during 1943, the 10th SS Panzer Division saw its first action in the spring of 1944 during the relief of an encircled German army on the Eastern Front. The Germans goal during Citadel was to pinch off a large salient in the Eastern Front that extended 70 miles toward the west.
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