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Mar 29, 2025
Good coverage of military deployment, minimal coverage of war crimes
The book has great value for military historians, particularly those with an interest in the Waffen-SS and its operations. However, the late Mark Yerger failed completely to document the war crimes of the SS-Kavallerie-Brigade during the period (1941/42) that he covers, but that does not strip the book of utility. For coverage of those crimes, I recommend Henning Pieper's "Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare: The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union" and Martin Cüppers' "Wegbereiter der Shoah: Die Waffen-SS, der Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS und die Judenvernichtung 1939–1945".
As a biographical researcher and author, I find the biographical sketches and photographs useful for my work.
Yerger's books belong in the library of anyone with an interest in the Waffen-SS. But it should be noted that he was an apologist for the officers and men of the ill-famed formation-- not explicitly trumpeting its alleged "greatness" but lying by omission through failing to discuss the politics and crimes of many of his subjects; he would even omit the mere fact of their NSDAP membership, in one case erroneously claiming, in "Waffen-SS Commanders, Krüger to Zimmermann" (p. 23) that SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Walter Krüger was "never a member of the NSDAP" (he was, joining on 1 May 1937 with NSDAP-Nr. 3.995.130).
He often left out mention of SS officers' pre-war assignment to concentration camps, coyly stating the names of their units- which serious scholars know were assigned to the camps- but leaving out the fact that they were based at KL-Dachau, KL-Buchenwald, KL-Sachsenhausen, etc.