This is the complete history of one of the most famous and well-known divisions of the Waffen-SS. Created as a mountain unit to be employed exclusively on the Balkan Front against partisan units, the
From the German occupation of Belgium in May 1940, Flemish recruits from northern Belgium– considered by the Nazis to be 'Germanic' – were accepted individually into Waffen-SS units. From Hitler's inv
Goebbels’ 1941 propaganda campaign, to present Germany's invasion of the USSR as a battle for European civilization against Asian barbarism, convinced many men in occupied 'Germanic' European countrie
