12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division in Normandy

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Raised in 1943 with 17-year-olds from the Hitler Youth movement, the Hitlerjugend Panzer Division emerged as one of the most effective German divisions fighting in the West. The core of the division was a cadre of offices and NCOs provided by Hitler's bodyguard division, the elite Leibstandarte, with the aim of producing a division of 'equal value' to fight alongside them in I SS Panzer Corps. Includes 60 black and white illustrations and maps.

During the fighting in Normandy, the Hitlerjugend proved to be implacable foes to both the British and the Canadians, repeatedly blunting Montgomery's offensives. Despite huge disadvantages from constant Allied air attack, highly destructive naval gunfire, and a chronic lack of supplies and replacements, they fought with skill and a degree of determination well beyond the norm from D+1 to the Falaise Pocket