This is the stage for Dragon Models Limited's latest collectible WWII 12" action figure, SS-Schütze "Karsten Kohl". Outfitted as a Panzergrenadier of the 9.SS-Panzer-Division at Arnhem 1944, "Karsten" brings you several brand new and exciting 1:6 scale innovations!

Obviously, World War II did not end by Christmas 1944 -- the architects of "Operation Market-Garden" misjudged the logistics of the operation and seriously underestimated the amount of resistance the German forces at Arnhem would mount against them. "Market-Garden" remains the largest airborne operation in history, but for the Allies in World War II it was also a tragic waste of resources and lives. For the Germans, it proved only a temporary reprieve from the inevitable. For Panzergrenadier "Karsten Kohl" ... well, that's for YOU to decide!

The time is mid-September 1944, and Germany is losing the war in Europe. The Allied invasion at Normandy that summer was a success, Paris has been liberated, and now the Allies are looking for a plan to end the war by Christmas. British General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery believes he has such a plan -- the largest airborne operation in history, in which Allied paratroopers and glidermen would stage a daring daylight drop into Holland to secure three strategic bridgeheads and clear a path for British armor all the way to the German border. He calls the plan "Operation Market-Garden", and it begins on September 17th in a little Dutch town named "Arnhem" ...

The 9.SS-Panzer-Division "Hohenstaufen" was exhausted. Acting as a rear-guard for retreating German forces in Normandy for two months straight without a break or reinforcements, constantly harassed by Allied fighter-bombers and the French resistance, the once formidable SS unit was by mid-September 1944 a mere shell of its former self -- total remaining strength somewhere between two and three thousand men, its tanks and heavy weapons all gone. Following a narrow escape from the Falaise pocket and a harrowing two-week retreat, the 9.SS Hohenstaufen limps into Holland to rest and re-group in the first weeks of September ... near a little Dutch town called "Arnhem".