SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, 1941 1945
SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, 1941 1945 Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia…
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SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, 1941 1945
Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia 1942 - 1945 describes how the occupying Nazis recruited Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian conscripts into the Waffen-SS. Although volunteers came forward, the majority did not. Unlike her Latvian neighbor, Lithuania had no plans to provide Germany with a National Legion.
After intensive training, these divisions saw action on the Eastern front, around Leningrad, in the Ukraine, before vicious defensive operations as the Red Army smashed its way through the Baltic States in 1944. This was not the case for Latvia and Estonia, which undertook huge recruitment programs, and thousands of men were drafted into their own foreign legion of Waffen-SS Grenadier divisions. Even in the last dying weeks of the war, what was left of the Baltic soldiers of the