On Christmas Eve 1944, the men of the IV SS-Panzerkorps were preparing to celebrate the occasion as best they could.
Taking advantage of the pause in the fighting around Warsaw, they looked forward to partaking in that most German of holidays, including the finest Christmas dinner their field kitchens could still prepare in this fifth year of the war.
They had earned it too; after five months of unrelenting combat and the loss of many of their friends, troops from the corps headquarters, headqua.
Casemate From the realm of a dying sun. volume 2: the iv. ss-panzerkorps in the budapest relief efforts, december 1944-february 1945/douglas e. nash
