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Narva to Cherkassy: The SS volunteers’ bloodiest retreat, 1944

When the spring thaw turned the Narva front into a flooded swamp of mud and collapsed trenches, the battered men of SS ...
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Narva 1944: Where Europe’s SS volunteers froze and fought to the end

From January to March 1944, the Narva River became one of the Eastern Front’s most brutal killing grounds. Outnumbered and under-equipped, foreign Waffen-SS volunteers from Scandinavia, the ...