The Nazis- dream of a world dominated by legions of Aryan -supermen-, forged in battle and absolutely loyal to Hitler, was epitomised by the Waffen-SS. Created as a supreme military -te, it grew to become Nazi Germany-s -second army-, an immense force totalling almost one million men by the end of the War.
An astonishing fact about the SS is that thousands of its members were not German. Men stepped forward from almost every nation in Europe - for many, sometimes complex reasons - that included hatred of Bolshevism and nationalist sentiment or even straightforward anti-Semitism. Foremost amongst them were Scandinavians from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Thousands were recruited from 1940 onwards and fought with distinction on the Russian Front.
They served at first in national legions but were then brought together in the Wiking Panzer Division and the Nordland Panzer-grenadier Division. In Hitler-s Vikings, Jonathan Trigg details the battles thes
