Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare: The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union

by Henning Pieper

Book Overview

Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare explores the deployment of the SS Cavalry Brigade in 1941-2, with a special focus on the development of its 'dual role'. The brigade became a pacemaker of the Holocaust in Belorussia during the summer of 1941, and fought against the Red Army in the region between Toropets and Rzhev, a focal point of the eastern front, between December, 1941 and June, 1942. SS cavalrymen underwent a continuous brutalisation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137456310
• ISBN13: 9781137456311
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"