Volume I: Following an illustrated Introduction a lengthy chapter examines the parameters of researched topics in this work, the ten categories of personnel it includes, and how the data is presented
In "Totenkopf" volume II Mark C. Yerger begins with a lengthy chapter on the SS officer and Waffen-SS combat arms schools. Especially relevant to the earliest divisions, many "Totenkopf" officers were
“Honoring Those They Led” a examines specific points and groups within a massive subject; Commanding Generals of WW II German field commands with those primarily studied being among those presented on