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The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a ´dual role´: SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front.

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Introduction 1. Elite sportsmen: The Pre-War SS-Reiterstandarten 2. Brutal Occupation: The SS Cavalry in Poland 3. The SS Cavalry Brigade and Operation ´Barbarossa´ 4. Mass Violence in the Pripet Marshes 5. Partisan Warfare in the Soviet Union 6. The Winter Battle West of Moscow, 1941 - 1942 Conclusion

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"Fegelein´s Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare offers the first detailed study in English of the SS Cavalry Brigade as both an instrument of genocide and a combat unit in the occupied Soviet lands. ... Pieper´s thoughtful and well-argued book relies on a thorough examination of archival sources. There is much to admire in this detailed, though brief study-a significant contribution to the literature on the Holocaust and the Waffen-SS." (Paul J. Wilson, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 31 (5), 2017)

"The book is fundamentally a study of what Pieper calls the SS Cavalry Brigade´s ´dual role´ as both a political paramilitary force with ideological goals and as a conventional military unit. ... a detailed account of a Waffen SS unit with a complex history and a penetrating study of how this unit carried out numerous atrocities. ... Pieper has produced a fascinating book of value to anyone studying the Holocaust, the SS or the Eastern Front. Highly recommended." (Jonny Briggs, The Second World War Military Operations Research Group, secondworldwaroperationsresearchgroup.wordpress.com, December, 2015)

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Henning Pieper was educated at the Universities of Freiburg, Germany, Nottingham and Sheffield, UK. His research focuses on the Waffen-SS and Germany´s difficult process of coming to terms with the Nazi past.

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