Lost Honour, Betrayed Loyalty
Lost Honour, Betrayed Loyalty The Memoir of a Waffen-SS Soldier on the Eastern Front Author:Herbert Maeger Language:English Format:Softcover Dimensions:6" x 9.25" Pages:272 Photos:32 black and white illustrations Publisher:Frontline Books ISBN:9781526768858 Item No. 9781526768858 As an 18-year old Belgian, Herbert Maeger was blackmailed into volunteering for the Waffen-SS in 1941 in order to save his mother from being sent to a concentration camp.After enduring harsh training with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, considered by some to be a worse experience than serving at the fighting front, Maeger went on to be selected as a front line driver in Russia. He saw combat at Kharkov and at the legendary Battle of Kursk.In 1944 he was transferred out for training as an SS paramedic, but after two months was sent, again against his will, for SS-officer training. Overheard making a defeatist remark, he was sent to th