BERLIN 1945 - Defend Berlin!
BERLIN 1945 - Defend Berlin!

BERLIN 1945 - Defend Berlin!

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Memoirs of the Battle of Berlin in May 1945 by Georg Diers (Panzerkommandant Tiger II, s.SS-Pz.Abt.503), Oskar Schäfer (Panzerkommandant and panzer officer on Tiger II, s.SS-Pz.Abt.503), Henri Fenet (Waffen-Hauptsturmführer, SS-Grenadier-Regiment 57 of the 33.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS « Charlemagne »).

In the « TEMOIGNAGES POUR L'HISTOIRE » collection, and following the success of « Nous, les Barbares », Peter Mooney presents the memoirs of three veterans who fought in Berlin until the very end of the Second World War in Europe.

Georg Diers wrote his memoirs using the notes from a diary he kept at the time, up until his captivity after 1945. He recounts his journey as an infantryman in the "Nordland" infantry regiment and then as a Panzerkommandant in the 503rd SS heavy tank battalion in Pomerania and all the way into Berlin in 1945. He would go on to destroy numerous Soviet tanks and was also one of the last to see Hitler in the grounds of the Chancellery…

Oskar Schäfer was a panzer lieutenant in the same heavy tank battalion as Diers and also fought in Berlin. Although he managed to escape from his burning panzer, he survived with terrible burns that marked him both physically and mentally. The final collection of testimonies is that of Henri Fenet, a former aspirant and officer of the French army, who enlisted in several collaborationist organisations after the dissolution of the Vichy Armistice Army and became an officer in the Waffen-SS.

Henri Fenet ended the war with the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (Waffen-Hauptsturmführer) while serving within the SS-Grenadier-Regiment 57 of the 33.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS « Charlemagne ». He only learned at the end of the conflict that he had been awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 29 April 1945, while commanding the French assault battalion (Sturmbataillon) in Berlin.


 

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Author 1
Peter Mooney
Publication date
June 2025
Pages
176
Illustrations
+ 200 illustrations
Cover
Hardcover
Format
15.5 x 21.8
Language
French
Publisher
Maranes
EAN
9782957100958

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