Panzerdivision Frundsberg: Ukraine – Normandie 1944

Panzerdivision Frundsberg: Ukraine – Normandy 1944

Thanks to veterans’ testimonies of dozens, surviving march diaries, unpublished documents and archives, it was possible to precisely restore the terrible engagements of the 10.SS-Panzerdivision “Frundsberg” on the Galician plains in Ukraine (Buczacz sector) and the Normandy bocage .

Engaged late in June 1944, the “Frundsberger” fought around hills 112 and 113 near Caen for more than a month before being thrown further west. The rapid deterioration of the German military situation after the operation on Mortain led to the strategic withdrawal of the Division, which would now engage in rearguard combat.

Barenton, Fromentel, Putanges, Trun, Saint-Lambert, Mont-Ormel, and so many localities that sounded the death knell for the units of the “Frundsberg” managing to extract themselves from the Falaise Pocket. The withdrawal turned into a general retreat for the German army and only a third of the initial troops of the 10.SS-Panzerdivision “Frundsberg” were able to cross the Seine.

A reference work on one of the most famous Panzerdivision, for all specialists of German units engaged in Normandy 1944 and military history enthusiasts!

This book is written in French

Book Data

Author:  Stephan Cazenave
Language:  French
Pages:  496
Photos & docs: 760+
Physical:  Hardcover, 305x216mm, portrait

Chapters

• Formation of the Division – December 1942 – March 1944
• Transfer of units to Angoulême sector, 15.2 – 5.7.1943
• Dax sector transfer, 5.7. – 5.8.1943
• Transfer Marseille sector, 5.8.1943 – 23.10.1943
• Transfer to Normandy, 24.10.1943 – 27.3.1944
• Engagements in Galicia April 4 – June 12, 1944
• Transfer to the Eastern Front
• Baptism of fire on Buczacz April 5-7
• Re-establishment of the 10.SS-Panzerdivision, 23.4.-13.6.1944
• Heinz Harmel, the “Old”
• Kleffner case
• Stoßtruppunternehmen “Fink”
• Towards the Normandy front 13 – 28 June 1944
• In the Battle of the Odon June 29 – July 9, 1944
• Resumption of the attack, June 30
• Attack on July 1, 1944
• Defensive positions, 2. – 9.7.1944.
• Fixations and positional warfare 10 – 31 July 1944
• Days of July 10 and 11, 1944 Trips to Hell
• Return to the war of positions around Hill 112, 12-17.7.44.
• The “Frundsberg” in the war of positions, 18-31.7.
• Battles of the SS-Pz.Aufkl.Abt. 10 east of Orne, 19 – 22.7.44
• Reorganization of the 10.SS-Panzer-Division, 21-23.7.44.
• I./SS-Pz.Rgt.10, March-August 1944.
• From the Virois bocage to the Seine 1st – 27th August 1944
• The fighting west of Aunay-sur-Odon
• The withdrawal of the Division
• From the Mortain counter-offensive to the Falaise Pocket 8 – 21.8.1944.
• The retreat of the 10.SS-Pz.Div. to the Orne near Putanges, 15 – 18.8.44
• Crossing the Orne
• The 10.SS-Pz.Div. in the Pocket south of Falaise, 18 – 21.8.44.
• general
• Saint-Lambert, day of August 20
• Rush on Moissy – Night of 20-21.8.
• Retreat to the Seine 21 – 27.8.1944
• Occupation list of posts of the 10.SS-Panzerdivision “Frundsberg” March – August 1944