German Mountain Troops in World War II: A Photographic Chronicle of the Elite Gebirgsjäger
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Under the emblem of the Edelweis, the soldiers of the German mountain corps fought on every front in the Second World War – in the tundra of Lapland, in the gorges of the Balkans, on Crete, in the High Caucasus, at Monte Cassino and finally in Upper Italy and the Western Alps, at the Semmering, in Bavaria and Tyrol. Mountain troops even formed part of Rommel’s famed Afrikakorps. During the war, the army alone formed a total of eleven mountain divisions, plus independent battalions and units...






















