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Helion Pub (2010), Hardcover, 176 pages
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Under Himmler's Command addresses two areas of World War II hitherto neglected - Heinrich Himmler as a military commander, and the German staff officer corps during the last months of the war on the Eastern Front. The author, Hans-Georg Eismann, was the Operations Officer for Army Group Vistula, a German formation created in late January 1945 to which Heinrich Himmler was appointed as commander. Eismann's memoir of this period has remained unpublished for over fifty years, and its wider circulation is long overdue. Full of fascinating detail he recounts the disturbing and sometimes bizarre atm
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Interesting little excerpt from a period that'd it'd be hard to classify as "critical" (as it was essentially a foregone conclusion by then), but none-the-less significantly important in the last days of the Third Reich.
Eismann's account adds something to the genre as it's untypically a Staff
A useful addition to any WWII scholar's library.
Eismann's account adds something to the genre as it's untypically a Staff
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Officer's perspective. It's not the Generals we normally hear from at length nor the blow-by-blow front-line accounts that abound. In fact there's almost no action, pretty much everything's at a distance, but it's none-the-worse for that.A useful addition to any WWII scholar's library.
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176 p.; 9.21 inches
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1874622434 / 9781874622437