Massimiliano Afiero has been interested in military history since his youth, specializing in the history of Axis units during World War II. He is one of a few Italian researchers to have personally interviewed veterans of the Waffen-SS and published their stories.Ramiro Bujeiro was an experienced commercial artist who lived and worked in his native city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His main interests were the political and military history of Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Ramiro died in January 2026.

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• [subject to confirmation]IntroductionChronologyAntecedent units and formation, 1940Enlistment of German volunteersFirst campaign on the Eastern Front, 1941Caucasus campaign, 1942Donets front, 1943Cherkassy Pocket, winter 1943/44Festung Kowel, 1944Polish front, 1944Hungarian front, 1945SurrenderBibliographyIndex

Massimiliano Afiero has been interested in military history since his youth, specializing in the history of Axis units during World War II. He is one of a few Italian researchers to have personally interviewed veterans of the Waffen-SS and published their stories.Ramiro Bujeiro was an experienced commercial artist who lived and worked in his native city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His main interests were the political and military history of Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Ramiro died in January 2026.

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• [subject to confirmation]IntroductionChronologyAntecedent units and formation, 1940Enlistment of German volunteersFirst campaign on the Eastern Front, 1941Caucasus campaign, 1942Donets front, 1943Cherkassy Pocket, winter 1943/44Festung Kowel, 1944Polish front, 1944Hungarian front, 1945SurrenderBibliographyIndex

Massimiliano Afiero has been interested in military history since his youth, specializing in the history of Axis units during World War II. He is one of a few Italian researchers to have personally interviewed veterans of the Waffen-SS and published their stories.Ramiro Bujeiro was an experienced commercial artist who lived and worked in his native city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His main interests were the political and military history of Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Ramiro died in January 2026.

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• [subject to confirmation]IntroductionChronologyAntecedent units and formation, 1940Enlistment of German volunteersFirst campaign on the Eastern Front, 1941Caucasus campaign, 1942Donets front, 1943Cherkassy Pocket, winter 1943/44Festung Kowel, 1944Polish front, 1944Hungarian front, 1945SurrenderBibliographyIndex