Hitler's Vikings
Hitler's Vikings The first book to cover all the Scandinavians who served in Hitler's feared Waffen-SS right until the end in BerlinBased in part on interviews with surviving veterans, this history…
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Hitler's Vikings
The first book to cover all the Scandinavians who served in Hitler's feared Waffen-SS right until the end in BerlinBased in part on interviews with surviving veterans, this history details the battles the Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish men of the Waffen-SS fought, and what inspired them to join. Created as a supreme military elite, it grew to become an immense force totaling almost one million men by the end of the war. The Nazis' dream of a world dominated by legions of Aryan "supermen," forged in battle and absolutely loyal to Adolf Hitler, was epitomized by the Waffen-SS.
Men stepped forward from almost every nation in Europe, for many complex reasons that included hatred of Bolshevism and nationalist sentiment or even straightforward anti-Semitism. An astonishing fact about the SS is that thousands of its members were not German. Thousands of Scandinanians