- Summary
- "Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare explores the deployment of the SS Cavalry Brigade in 1941-2, with a special focus on the development of its 'dual role'. The brigade became a pacemaker of the Holocaust in Belorussia during the summer of 1941, and fought against the Red Army in the region between Toropets and Rzhev, a focal point of the Eastern Front, between December 1941 and June 1942. SS cavalrymen underwent a continuous brutalisation which saw them commit acts of mass violence with thousands of victims, a development only comparable to that of the Einsatzgruppen and battalions of the order police. Going beyond a unit history, Henning Pieper analyses the role and behavior of the brigade's personnel and places it within the context of research on perpetrators and the operational history of the Waffen-SS. Thus, military history, Holocaust research, and perpetrator history are combined in this interdisciplinary approach"-- Provided by publisher.
- Series
- The Holocaust and its contexts
Holocaust and its contexts.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Pieper, Henning, 1980-
- Published
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
1410
- Locale
- Soviet Union
Belarus
Eastern Front
- Contents
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Introduction
1. Elite sportsmen : the Pre-War SS-Reiterstandarten
2. Brutal Occupation : The SS Cavalry in Poland
3. The SS Cavalry Brigade and Operation Barbarossa
4. Mass Violence in the Pripet Marshes
5. Partisan Warfare in the Soviet Union
6. The Winter Battle West of Moscow, 1941-1942
Conclusion
Glossary
Abbreviations
Short biographies of perpetrators from the SS Cavalry Brigade
A.1 Structure of the SS Cavalry Brigade in Belorussia (July-August, 1941)
A.2 Structure of the SS Cavalry Brigade during the winter of 1941-1942.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-246) and index.
Introduction -- 1. Elite sportsmen : the Pre-War SS-Reiterstandarten -- 2. Brutal Occupation : The SS Cavalry in Poland -- 3. The SS Cavalry Brigade and Operation Barbarossa -- 4. Mass Violence in the Pripet Marshes -- 5. Partisan Warfare in the Soviet Union -- 6. The Winter Battle West of Moscow, 1941-1942 -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Short biographies of perpetrators from the SS Cavalry Brigade -- A.1 Structure of the SS Cavalry Brigade in Belorussia (July-August, 1941) -- A.2 Structure of the SS Cavalry Brigade during the winter of 1941-1942.
