THE FIRST WAVE OF VOLUNTEERS
Jan 24, 2019
2 minutes
Even as the Wehrmacht was fighting its way across Belgium, the Netherlands and France in May 1940, the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, gave the order to establish two new regiments – the SS-Westland and SS-Nordland. Each was to be recruited from foreign volunteers; the former from the Netherlands and Belgian Flanders, the latter from Norway,
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