Afiero, Massimiliano

From the German occupation of Belgium in May 1940, Flemish recruits from northern Belgium - considered by the Nazis to be 'Germanic' - were accepted individually into Waffen-SS units. From Hitler's invasion of the USSR in June 1941, additional recruits from the French-speaking south (Wallonia) were (...)

El 6 de septiembre de 1941, mientras la batalla de Kiev seguía su curso, Adolf Hitler, en su directiva número 35, prepara la futura ofensiva del Heeresgruppe "Mite" en dirección a Moscú. Era la operación "Taifún" (Tifón). La ofensiva hacia Kiev, sin embargo, había retrasado los planes alemanes y (...)