Eiserne Kreuz Issue 2

 Since a couple of days is the second number of Eiserne Kreuz out. The biggest difference from Nr 1 is that you have to subscribe to get the issue through email.

What you need to do is to write to - info@axishistory.com and in the header write "Eiserne Kreuz"

We have also created an website for the magazine, plus a facebook page. Please take a look and follow us on Facebook  - Eiserne Kreuz Facebook: Eiserne Kreuz - FB

Best regards

Georg

The officers of the SS & Waffen-SS Volume B:1

I wish I could write who a "Fanfar" sounds, but Today is the big day for us. A long painstaking work have finally came to it´s end and now is the first part of "Officers of the $$ and Waffen-$$" live on all Amazon platforms.

As we have written before, 2107 offficers listed, some of them with a more detailed biographie, you will find their name, birth, death (if known) ranks and when they got promoted, units (known) and from where and to, $$ Number (If they got one), NSDAP Number (if member) awards both military and political. The marriage status and how many kids they got (during the war). Around 1400 of them have also a photo attached to the name. We have also as a wish added several "Signatures" of the officer (Not all, but many)

At the end of the book you will also find some statistic, at first all those who got a $$-Zivilabzeichen in numerical order, how many from different countries who became officer. How many which was KIA during the war or got MIA. You will also find how many who got different awards such as RK, DKiG, EK I, EK II , etc.

We have set the price lower then the Volume A as it will in three different parts (B).

If you buy this it will mean a million to us and a proof that our work will continue. Volume B:2 is set to be realesed in the first half of next year. We have reached very long with that one, and what is left is detailed biograpgies (more) and photos. And then of course the chapter with the statistics.

The biggest news is that we have decided that in the future we will only publish those "Führerlisten" in english, we have also translated and published Volume A into english, also aviable on Amazon.

We also beside the aknowledge in the beginning of the book, once again send our most gratitude THANKS to all of you who have helped us in our line of work, without that this work would have been VERY difficult to finish.

As we wrote in the begining of this post, you find it on all Amazon platforms , the links didn´t work, but if you search for either my name "Georg Schwab" or "Officers of the SS and Waffen-SS" you will find the book at Amazon.

Best regards

Georg

Eiserne Kreuz - The Magazine about SS & Waffen-SS Nr 1

 Hello 

Since some time back I and a friend have been discussing and talking about a digital  Magazine in English about the SS and Waffen-SS, as we think this is something the community misses. It´s now out for download. 

The first issue in just over 60 pages,  The content so far in the first issue is : SS-Totenkopfverbände,  SS-Ogruf Thedor Eicke?, RK Holder Hans Drexel, RK Holder Erich Olboeter,  Norwegian in SS-Rgt. Nordland plus a few more and at last  Book reviews. 

The good thing is that the magazine is for free, if you don´t want to donate for the work we have done of course. The first magazine will be posted on different pages and forums, but to recieve the following issues we need your email adress, otherwise you won´t get it. 

So to be sure that you don´t miss an issue send me an email on info(a)axishistory.com , write in the subject line "Eiserne Kreuz" and I will add your email adress to the subscribers. 

To follow the rules etc, with your email you allow us to store your email and name all according to GDPR.  You can whenever you want withdraw that permission, and your email adress and name will be removed from the subscribers. 

You can download it on - Eiserne Kreuz

//Georg

The Viking Legacy - The Norwegians who became Officers in the Waffen-SS

 Since a little more than a week, I published a book that we had translated. It´s written by the Number 1 historians about the Norwegians who served in the Waffen-SS, for you who want to know more about the Norwegian officers, or if you want to learn more about them - this book is a must. 

Some basic info regarding the book: 

Title - The Viking Legacy  - The Norwegians officers of the Waffen-SS
Pages: 339
Content: The story about the units and SS-JS Bad Tölz, 144 induvidual Biographies of the Officers
Photos: More than 250
Format A4 paperback
Price €43
Where to buy? On all Amazon Platforms here is one link https://a.co/d/ggWp9tp

SS-Unterscharführer Ludwig Fiesser

SS-Unterschaführer 

Ludwig Fiesser

B. 2.1.1919 in Eppelheim close to Heidelberg. He was baker for profession. 

He joined the SS in 1938, a year later he got his first promotion to SS-Sturmmann, just over a year later he got another promotion this time to SS-Rottenführer. In 1941 he got his last promotion and this time he became SS-Unterscharführer.  Ludwig Fiesser has no awards listed. 

The services he had in this time in the SS was as at first very brief, between 1938 and 1943 he served in a unknown Allg.-SS unit, he was between 1938 and 1943 attached to different Heer units. Of them he last served in the Art.Rgt.21 which ended in 1943 when he was transferred to I./SS-Pz.Rgt. 1 LSSAH, under the command of Max Wünsche. He was for a brief period attached ot the SS-Na.AuE.Rgt. in Nürnberg, most probably it was a course he had to undertake for his future service with in the Waffen-SS. Ludwig was then as many others from the LSSAH transferred to the newly former 12.SS-Pz.Division “Hitlerjugend”, he was there attached to the SS-Pz.Rgt.12. Still under the command of Max Wünsche. This transfer is according to his SS-File on 12.9.1943. But before that he was transferred to the 12.SS he once again had to take a course, this time at the SS-Na.Schule in Metz. Which ended on the same day as he was transferred to 12.SS.

In his file we can read that he had some miner punishment, as one when he had a three day arrest in 1940, this was delivered because he didn’t acted when he got an order about a “alarm befehl” , but those punishment was considered light, but still such punishments was in the eyes of the SS enough to disqualify him as an officer. 

Ludwig Fiesser was Killed in action 17.2.1944 unfortunately is where he got killed unknown,  we suspect that he got killed in an accident or by bombing or similar. As this is before the landing in the Normandy and Ludwig Fiesser is to day buried at the Kriegsfriedhof in Lommel , Belgium. According to the Volksbund they couldn´t make a 100% Id when they reburied Ledwig Fiesser so he is today buried under a stone marked with “Unbekannter Deutsche Soldat”.

This was original posted on our Facebook page where we discuss our project "Führerliste det SS/Waffen-SS -

 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/vgc4biZDu8V92GU4/

Uknown SS-Officers

 In our work listing all the officers of the SS and Waffen-SS we have got a ton of photos of officers who are unknown. We have now started a page where we show face of those unknown SS-Officers. If you recognize any of them. Please send us an email (info@axishistory.com) with the number and the name.

You find the page here: Unknown SS-Officers

Thanks in advance!

//Georg

Die Führerliste der Allg.-SS und Waffen-SS

 Since a week ago is our first book avaiable for purchase on all Amazon platforms. In the book, dealing with officers with a family name starting on A, you find more than 1300 officers and we managed to get more than 870 photos. 

You can read more about it on the webpage www.führerliste.com 

/Georg