Dawn breaks over the battlefield

29th July 1941: Kurt Meyer's Waffen SS Battalion survives a Russian night attack

A propaganda image of Kurt Meyer in Greece in 1941.

Kurt Meyer was quite literally a poster boy for the Nazis. This image (above) of him in Greece in the spring of 1941 appeared on the cover of Illustrierter Beobachter, published by the Nazi Party, and became a popular image of the Waffen SS.

On the 28th- 29th of July in the south of Russia, Meyer¹ was eng…