Számvéber - Waffen-SS Armour in Normandy : the combat history of SS-Panzer Regiment 12 and SS-Panzerjäger Abteilung 12, Normandy 1944, based on their original war diaries

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Main text and Appendices III-XVII, XIX-XX Norbert Szmvber 2011
Appendices I, II, XVIII Helion & Company Limited 2011
Photographs and maps as shown
Front cover image: Grenadiers near a Panther from I./SS-Panzer Regiment 12, 25 June
1944. (Ullstein Bilderdienst)
Rear cover image: A close-up view of Obersturmbannfhrer Max Wnsche, Belgium,
March 1944. Note the zimmerit anti-magnetic mine paste on the tank. (National
Archives)

ISBN: 978 1 907677 24 3
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Contents

This Appendix also includes biographical data relating to several award holders who were not officers.

This Appendix also includes biographical data relating to several award holders who were not officers.

List of Illustrations

T he images of individuals that follow include not only personnel of SS-Panzer Regiment 12 and SS-Panzerjger Abteilung 12, but others relevant to both formations from Hitlerjugend as well as other units. As a component of the I.SS-Panzer Korps, both units considered in this volume often fought in conjunction with other elements of Hitlerjugend along with other units subordinated to the Korps. In the latter case these were primarily parts of the 1.SS-Panzer Division Leibstandarte and the Tiger-equipped schwere SS-Panzer Abteilung 101. In instances where notations direct the reader to either , these include both biographical data as well as the surviving recommendations for the awards in question. Combined, SS-Panzer Abteilung 12 and SS-Panzerjger Abteilung 12 were awarded one Oakleaves to the Knights Cross, seven awards of the Knights Cross, and nine awards of the German Cross in Gold for combats during the Normandy campaign. Other captions direct the reader to biographical footnotes for personnel specifically outside the two primary units under study, aside from those individuals also being mentioned in the primary text.

List of Maps

Black and white maps

All the above maps are used with the permission of the Vojensk Historick Archiv, Praha.

Colour maps (in colour section)

Colour map 1 Barbara Taylor, colour maps 2-8 used with the permission of Hubert Meyer and J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc.

Glossary