Waffen-SS Dutch & Belgian Volunteers
Waffen-SS Dutch & Belgian Volunteers Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, numerous Dutchmen, Belgians and Danes volunteered for the Waffen-SS. It was later re-designated 23rd SS…
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Waffen-SS Dutch & Belgian Volunteers
Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, numerous Dutchmen, Belgians and Danes volunteered for the Waffen-SS. It was later re-designated 23rd SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nederland.Fighting alongside the Nederland formation was the SS Volunteer Legion Flanders, manned mainly with Dutch speaking recruits from occupied Belgium. The largest division, SS Volunteer Legion Netherlands operated in Yugoslavia and then Northern Russia.
After being disbanded it was later reformed as the SS Assault Brigade Langemarck (SS-Sturmbrigade Langemarck).The SS Volunteer Legion Walloon, recruited from French-speaking volunteers from German occupied Belgium, was sent to Russia and later integrated with the SS Assault Brigade Wallonia (SS-Sturmbrigade Wallonien).Finally some 6,000 Danes served in Free Corps Denmark which went to the Eastern Front in May 1942.