SS: Hell on the Eastern Front

Barbarossa, Leningrad, Kursk, Kharkov – the Eastern Front was the scene of the most decisive campaign of World War II and Hitler’s elite soldiers, the Waffen-SS, fought in the East from the beginning of the Russian campaign in 1941 to the fall of Berlin in 1945. As the war in the Soviet Union progressed, the formations of the Waffen-SS distinguished themselves. The premier Waffen-SS formations – the Leibstandarte, Das Reich, Totenkopf and Wiking Divisions – proved themselves to be masters of mec