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From an eu forum- This entire Sprech media SS Panzer series (Sherman Killers, Hitler's Children, SS Inferno, SS Pride) is a literary fraud designed in part to ennoble the Waffen SS. The series is carefully written and reasonably well researched but the fakery becomes clear as the reader proceeds through the accounts in the various 'books' The recollections are too vivid; the descriptions of combat experiences on widely different battlefields are too similar; the first person accounts are stylistically identical; and the actions portrayed are clearly calculated to excite the reader's interest by including just about every major land weapon system used by the Germans in WWII (Something like the 'Call of Duty' video games.) This is not history, it is is fiction. There are clues within individual "accounts" that reveal the recollections to be bogus--for example, the account (in "SS Inferno")of the battle of Kursk has an Elephant tank destroyer fighting with the SS in Army Group South on the southern side of the salient whereas all Elephants were deployed by the 41st Panzer Corps of Army Group Center on the northern front. Similarly, the account of a Jagdtiger, Tiger I, and Tiger II operating together in the Ardennes is a fantasy--these vehicles fought in separate battalions not in combined groups of single vehicles of each type. Perhaps most obvious made-up story is the first hand description (in "Hitler's Children") supposedly given by a young Frenchwoman (and expert on weapons systems) taking cover in a house in the middle of a ferocious tank battle which she is able to describe with Kodak-like precision despite what must have been a veritable hurricane of shellfire, explosions, mayhem, and destruction--what a corespondent! Yet there are more basic reasons to question the credibility of these stories; none of the accounts identifies the speaker's unit (excepting Hitler's Children"--the supposed recollections of 12th SS Panzer Division veterans). In real battle histories, soldiers nearly always identify their subunit or unit by name or number--but not once in these fictional accounts does that ever occur (not even with the supposed Canadian or British veterans who presumably would have nothing to hide). The reason is simple--if a unit was identified, the account could be checked out. No unit--no checking unit histories. Also,the series "editor" is unidentified. Why? Probably because the "editor" is actually the creator of this fiction and would therefore prefer anonymity. There is no sourcing--Why not? I'll posit because there are no actual sources. The places for the supposed interviews are not given, the sponsorship of the interviews are not revealed. Stating that the interviews were conducted by a researcher for the Federal Republic of Germany is absurd: researchers work for agencies, universities, publication houses and the like; they do not work for countries. It all adds up to this conclusion: the SS Panzer series is nothing more than a calculated swindle.