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Originally Posted by Dowly
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Originally Posted by Mikhayl
That's nice, but you're missing a whole part of the waffen SS by saying that the wiking was the "foreign unit". Wiking was ONE foreign division of the waffen ss, but there were many other, such as Nordland, Charlemagne, a Belgian division too (can't remember the name), also Estonian, among others, plus other smaller combattant units from various countries.
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I think V(W)iking was the whole of scandinavia. Not sure tho. :hmm: |
Wiking, as far as i know was drawn from scandinavian voulenteers and from 43 onwards some estonians units fought in that formation aswell.
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Originally Posted by Aur0ra145
Wiking was one of many, you are correct. I was just trying to prove the point the Nazis were hypocrits when implementing any sort of racial doctrine. The reason I cited the Wiking as one of these international units is b/c it's the one I know the most about.
Maybe my writing was a bit off if I gave the impression that the Wiking unit was the only foreign unit within the Waffen SS.
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Well the men who were withing the Wiking division were concidered aryan ennough by the nazis, so its not a good example of nazi hypocricy, though it did exist.