SS: HITLER’S FOREIGN DIVISIONS: Foreign Volunteers in The Waffen-SS 1940-1945

Concise, unit by unit history of the 350,000 foreign volunteers who fought in the Nazi Waffen SS. With rare pictures, this is the definitive book about Hitler’s foreign legions.

Our image of the Waffen SS is a corps of Aryan German warriors - tall, blonde, blue-eyed Teutons. But, as this book shows in riveting detail - more than 350,000 of the elite force’s fighters were foreign. As Germany’s war losses mounted, sheer necessity, as well as ideological doctrine, compelled the SS leadership to recruit soldiers from the countries they had occupied. This book describes the recruitment and military records of Hitler’s foreign legions raised in France, Belgium (both Flanders and Wallonia); Holland, Norway, Denmark, Latvia, Estonia and in the Cossack regions and the Ukraine in the Soviet Union. As author Chris Bishop shows, most volunteers were motivated by a misplaced idealism and a fanatical enthusiasm for the Nazi cause equal to that of the Germans themselves. Though some volunteers fought heroically against Communism on the Eastern Front, others - including a tiny British unit and and an Indian brigade - were raised for propaganda purposes and were of no military value. Illustratd with rare photographs, this book is the definitive history of the Nazi foreign legions.

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Product Code:	10563
Author:	Chris Bishop
Format:	192pp, b/w photographs, hb. Published Price £20
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