Waffen-SS Dutch, Belgian & Danish volunteers: rare photographs from wartime archives

"Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, numerous Dutchmen, Belgians and Danes volunteered for the Waffen-SS. The largest division, SS Volunteer Legion Netherlands operated in Yugoslavia and then Northern Russia. It was later re-designated 23rd SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division N...

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1. Verfasser: Baxter, Ian (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Barnsley ; Havertown Pen & Sword Military 2023
Schriftenreihe:Images of war
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Zusammenfassung:"Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, numerous Dutchmen, Belgians and Danes volunteered for the Waffen-SS. The largest division, SS Volunteer Legion Netherlands operated in Yugoslavia and then Northern Russia. It was later re-designated 23rd SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nederland.Fighting alongside the Nederland formation was the SS Volunteer Legion Flanders, manned mainly with Dutch speaking recruits from occupied Belgium. After being disbanded it was later reformed as the SS Assault Brigade Langemarck (SS-Sturmbrigade Langemarck).The SS Volunteer Legion Walloon, recruited from French-speaking volunteers from German occupied Belgium, was sent to Russia and later integrated with the SS Assault Brigade Wallonia (SS-Sturmbrigade Wallonien).Finally some 6,000 Danes served in Free Corps Denmark which went to the Eastern Front in May 1942. Within a year the formation was disbanded into Division Nordland, known as 'Regiment 24 Danemark'.
Beschreibung:Illustrationen in s/w
Beschreibung:154 Seiten Illustrationen 24,5 cm
ISBN:9781399087629