This small book is great. It covers the formation, training and combat of the SS-Heimwehr Danzig. this small unit once saw itself as the defence troop for the "Free City of Danzig." Its formation began in 1939 as the polictical tensions between Germany and Poland increased. Their establishment and a detailed account of their deployment in the Polish Campaign. And then their absorption into the SS Totenkopf Division.

This book is written from eyewitness accounts by participants and reprints of secondary literature. The translation has not been edited in any way. A must read... ( )