Obedient Unto Death: A PanzerGrenadier of the LeibstandarteSS Adolf Hitler Reports,Used

Obedient Unto Death: A PanzerGrenadier of the LeibstandarteSS Adolf Hitler Reports,Used

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Drafted into the SSTotenkopf in 1939, Werner Kindler served with a motorized unit in Poland before, in May 1941, he was selected for the elite LeibstandarteSS Adolf Hitler. It was with the LeibstandarteSS Adolf Hitler that he participated in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union from June 1941.Werners unit converted to a Panzer Grenadier formation in 1942, and he went on to fight at Kharkov and Kursk on the Eastern Front. Having transferred to the Western Front in 1944, Werner later fought in Belgium and France, in the Ardennes campaign, in Hungary and, finally, in Austria,Between 1941 and 1944 WaffenSS Oberscharfhrer Werner Kindler took part in eightyfour days of close combat. As a result, he was awarded the Close Combat Clasp in Gold (for participation in more than fifty battles) on 1 April 1945 being one of only 631 men who received this decoration. He was also awarded the German Cross in Gold, the Iron Cross First and Second Class, the Eastern Front Medal and the Gold Wound Badge, having been wounded six times in action. At the end of the war in Europe, Werner was one of the last men of the LeibstandarteSS to surrender to the Americans.Obedient Unto Death is one of the most dramatic firsthand accounts to come out of the Second World War. It provides is an unparalleled insight into the reality of close combat on the Eastern Front, where infantrymen attacked tanks with hand grenades and limpet mines, as well as the creation and evolution of armored forces during the Second World War.

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