Warrior 002 - Waffen-SS Soldier 1940-45 (1993).pdf

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With a father and grandfather
who served with distinction
in two World Wars, BRUCE
QUARRIE grew up with
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a fascination for military
history. Born in
1947,
he graduated with honours
from Cambridge University
in
1968
and worked as a
journalist with the
Financial
Times.
He edited
Military
Illustrated
for a number
of years, and is now
established as a full-time
writer. Bruce's definitive
Encyclopaedia
of
the
German Army
was even
translated and published
in German.
JEFFREY BURN is a
distinguished artist who has
worked on several Osprey
publications over the years,
including Men-At-Arms
230:
The US Army
and Men-At-Arms
34:
1890-1920,
The Waffen-SS. He
is also
a keen re-enactor, and lives
in the Scottish Borders.
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The Waffen-SS was a unique phenomenon in mili­
tary history, and comparisons with other famous
bodies of fighting men such as the Praetorian
Guard of the Caesars which is most commonly
cited fall apart on close examination. The Waffen­
SS was one of the end products of an ailing and
disillusioned society at odds with itself and the world.
That society itself was born of defeat i n the Great
War and the horrendous effects of the Depression; it
was a society which, while paying lip service to
democracy, really felt it needed and wanted strong
leadership. What it got was Adolf Hitler and the
N SDAP the National Socialist German Workers'
Party.
The key words in the Party's name were 'Na­
tional' and 'German', and from the moment the
N SDAP was elected to power and Hitler appointed
Forerunner of the
Waff
en-SS, the
'Stosstruppe Hitler'
formed by one of H itler's
two cha uff
eur/bo d
yguar d
s,
Julius Sc hreck (cen tre,
with moustache) in
I92J.
The basic SA 'un iform ' -
with wide varia t ions
ev iden t - is complemente d
by black sk i caps. These
are a dorned with a w hite
metal Totenkop f or
'dea th's hea d' ba d
ge, a
s ymbol Sc hreck a dopte d
from t he Fre ikorps'
Erhar dt Briga de o f whic h
he ha d been a member.
Thi was really noth ing
s
new, s ince t he 'skull an d
crossbones ' has an
illustrious history in many
nat ions as a l i
ght cavalry
s ymbol
in
particular, an d
was a dopte d by t he
We hrmacht's Panzer
forces as well as t he SS; but
with in t he Waff
en-SS it
acqu ired specific
connotat ions (see text).
(Bildarchiv Preussic her
Kulturbes itz, Berlin)
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