Mountain Infantery experience Serbia and the Ukraine
This extensively illustrated volume stands out as a premier example of its kind.
It contains a wealth of sepia-toned photographs that portray the unit's soldiers and officers.
These images display their wide array of vehicles, which ranged from bicycles and horses to
massive halftracks and radio trucks.
The photographs also thoroughly document their weaponry, personal equipment, and the captives
they took. They unflinchingly show the death and destruction caused by the unit, alongside scenes
of their daily life amidst occupied populations.
Among the specific subjects captured are fallen enemy soldiers, unusual heavy tanks,
and discarded materiel such as piles of helmets and rifles. Other images depict columns
of Gebirgsjäger on the march, mountain troops utilizing horses, and the gravesites of their own
fallen comrades.
Complementing the core collection of approximately 200 sharp, full-page gravure photos
is a selection of about twelve full-page, full-color paintings. These artworks were created
by A. Ludecke, who was himself a member of the Gebirgsjäger. His paintings illustrate
what he witnessed as the 4th Mountain Division advanced into the Ukraine.
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Hardcover in Half Linen / Cloth
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In good exterior and very good interior condition.
Boards and spine rubbed and slightly dusty/soiled. Faint foxing to boards, otherwise ok with minor traces of use and age.
All pages are complete and tight in the binding.
Approx/Measurements: 10" x 7-1/2" ~ 2.2 lbs.
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by Oberstl. H. M.
Published by Unit 1c of Enzian Div.
Book is divided into two content categories:
Part I
Heuberg - Ungarn - Rumänien - Bulgarien - Serbien
Part II
Ungarn - Slowakei - Ukraine
Background infos:
At the beginning of the 1940s, Yugoslavia found itself surrounded by hostile countries. Except for Greece, all other neighboring countries had signed agreements with either Germany or Italy. Hitler was strongly pressuring Yugoslavia to join the Axis powers. The government was even prepared to reach a compromise with him, but the spirit in the country was completely different. Public demonstrations against Nazism prompted a brutal reaction. The Luftwaffe bombed Belgrade and other major cities and in April 1941, the Axis powers occupied Yugoslavia and disintegrated it. The western parts of the country together with Bosnia and Herzegovina were turned into a Nazi puppet state called the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and ruled by the Ustashe. Serbia was set up as another puppet state under Serbian army general Milan Nedic. The northern territories were annexed by Hungary, and eastern and southern territories to Bulgaria. Kosovo and Metohia were mostly annexed by Albania which was under the sponsorship of fascist Italy. Montenegro also lost territories to Albania and was then occupied by Italian troops. Slovenia was divided between Germany and Italy that also seized the islands in the Adriatic.
The ruthless attitude of the German occupation forces and the genocidal policy of the Croatian Ustaša regime, aimed at Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and anti-Ustaša Croats, created a strong anti-fascist resistance. Many Yugoslavs, mostly Serbs, stood up against the genocide and the Nazis. Many joined the Partisan forces created by the Communist Party (National Liberation Army headed by Josip Broz Tito) in the liberation and the revolutionary war against Nazis and all the others who were against communism. During this war, the Partisans killed many civilians who did not support their ideals. By the end of 1944, the Red Army liberated Serbia, and by May 1945, the remaining republics were meeting up with the Allied forces in Hungary, Austria and Italy. Yugoslavia was among the countries that had the greatest losses in the war: 1,700,000 (10.8%25 of the population) people were killed and national damages were estimated at 9.1 billion dollars according to the prices of that period.
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