Siegrunen 81

Siegrunen 80. Second Edition (May 2012). When this issue was first published in 2009, it was Siegrunen's 33rd year of publication. This is Siegrunen's third book-length issue. This new format for Siegrunen provides more content, including some revised reprints from long out-of-print back issues. Siegrunen grew out of editor Richard Landwehr's inability to locate any adequate amount of published, accurate material on the Waffen-SS and, in particular, the non-German volunteer units in the 1960s, so he took a chance that by publishing a journal he might attract more sources of €œgood€ information€"and it worked. He also strongly felt that the €œvolunteers€ were being given the shaft by the mainstream media, if they were ever mentioned at all. The €œestablishment€ defamation was, and remains, staggering. It did not take him very long to discover that these were not criminals, but for the most part, were above-average individuals, highly motivated, skilled and courageous who happened to belong to an elite military organization (the Waffen-SS), that was so far ahead of its time that we still have not yet caught up to it. Contents: Waffen-Hauptsturmfhrer der SS Boris Jankaus and the Latvian Commando Troops of the Waffen-SS; Waffen-Hauptsturmfhrer der SS Peteris Cevers; Waffen-Obersturmfhrer der SS Teodors Kalnajs; Flemish Waffen-SS Officers and Volunteers; The Convalescent Company of the SS-Freiwilligenlegion €œFlandern€; Flemish Guardsmen to Waffen-SS Soldiers; Dutch Waffen-SS Miscellany; Waffen-SS Miscellany; Norwegian Officers of the Waffen-SS; Icelandic Volunteers of the Waffen-SS; An Ethnic German Winner of the Knight€s Cross: SS-Oberscharfhrer Stefan Strapatin; Caught Behind the Lines; Notes on the 32nd SS Grenadier Division €œ30 Januar€; SS Division €œNord€ at Salla: The Anatomy of a Disaster; Waffen-SS Flak (Air Defense) Troops: An Overview; SS Flak Detachment 13 and SS Corps Flak Detachment 509, IX. SS Mountain Corps; Led by a Traitor!; An Unknown Waffen-SS Knight€s Cross Holder: SS-Obersturmfhrer Adolf Obschil; Waffen-SS Personalities; International Waffen-SS Volunteers: A Photo Portfolio; Waffen-SS Insignia; 111 photos.