Charles W. Sydnor Jr.
Auteur van Soldiers of Destruction
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Also of interest was the description of how Theodore Eicke bootstrapped the SSTK into becoming an elite military formation from nothing, almost entirely through Eicke's sheer force of will. Sydnor's thesis that the SSTK's excellent combat record was ultimately a result of the Eicke's legendary fanaticism is convincing. That the SSTK was Eicke's "private empire" is really not too much of an exaggeration, and understanding that aspect of the SSTK's history is central to understanding the origin of the often intense rivalry between the Waffen SS and the regular Wehrmacht
Less interesting was Sydnor's interest in proving that the Waffen SS and the broader SS itself was a 'revolving door' system. A case can be made for this, sure, yet the implications of that argument are not particularly important to me nor worth reading an entire book about. I read this book because I wanted to learn about the combat record of the SSTK and I was not disappointed in that regard.… (meer)