Following the retreat from the Iranianbound front, the German Nordland and Wicking divisions were redeployed to defend the Narva river line against the pursuing Red Army. The Narva salient became a ...
In 1944, the war for Germany’s foreign SS volunteers turned from grim defense into outright survival. At Narva, exhausted men of Nordland and other battered formations fought in mud, flooded trenches, ...