This is an unrivalled account of one man's service in the elite Waffen-SS Liebstandarte division, principally on the Eastern Front.
The author, an 18-year old Belgian, was blackmailed into volunteering for the Waffen-SS in 1941 to save his mother from a concentration camp. After enduring the MG harsh training with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (considered by some to be a worse experience than the fighting front), Maeger went on to be selected as a frontline driver in Russia. He saw combat at Kharkov and at the legendary battle of Kursk. In 1944 he was transferred out for training as an SS paramedic, but after two months was sent against his will for SS-officer training. Overheard making a defeatist remark, he was sent to the notorious SS penal division Dirlewanger on the Oder front, where he survived the horror of the Halbe pocket.
On 1 May 1945 he was captured by the Russians near the Elbe. He served at the prison camp infirmary as a volunteer which won him the admiration of the Russian female doctor and with her help he gained his early release the same year
new book, set for release 30th july.
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Re: new book, set for release 30th july.
The book is not new : it was already published in German in 2002
Maegen was born in 1922 in Eupen ,a German speaking part of Prussia that was annexed in 1919 by Belgium,in 1971 he became German .
Maegen was born in 1922 in Eupen ,a German speaking part of Prussia that was annexed in 1919 by Belgium,in 1971 he became German .
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Re: new book, set for release 30th july.
I know the book was first published in German .....but it is new in written English.
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