CHAPTER TWO. The Polish Campaign and the Creation of the SS Totenkopfdivision

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS x
5. PREFACE TO THE 1990 EDITION xi
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
7. INTRODUCTION xvii
8. CHAPTER ONE. The Prewar Background: The Development of the Concentration Camp System and the SS Totenkopfverbände 3
9. CHAPTER TWO. The Polish Campaign and the Creation of the SS Totenkopfdivision 37
10. CHAPTER THREE. Growing Pains: December 1939-May 1940 64
11. CHAPTER FOUR. The SS Totenkopfdivision and the Battle of France 87
12. CHAPTER FIVE. The Long Interlude: Occupation Duty and Transfer to the East 120
13. CHAPTER SIX. The SS Totenkopfdivision and the War in Russia: June 1941-January 1942 152
14. CHAPTER SEVEN. The Soviet Counteroffensive: Encirclement in the Demyansk Pocket, January-October 1942 208
15. CHAPTER EIGHT. Perpetual Crisis: The Fiihrer's Firemen, 1943-1945 255
16. CHAPTER NINE. Some Observations: Ideology, Personality, and the Question of Totenkopf Criminality 313
17. AFTERWORD 343
18. POSTSCRIPT TO THE 1990 EDITION 347
19. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 351
20. Index 363