ZOLLGRENZSCHUTZ: Border Guards on the Frontier of the Reich, Hauptzollamt Villach, 1941-1945

After occupying the Balkans early in the war, the Axis powers constantly struggled to police the region. The partisan presence was quite substantial, and while the various fractured guerrilla groups expended, fighting among themselves. The author pieces together the history of the unit through painstaking original research in German, Austrian, Italian, and Slovenian archives. Illus.