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To: Taro who wrote (992922)	1/10/2017 11:06:08 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575048

Bookmark the permalink. The Swedish volunteers in the Waffen SS We didn't have SS in Sweden. Do your home-work before you post to me next time, Sheppy. While being well established as one of our board jokers, you still, just like your Big O, should work better on your legacy. Oh yes you did............... Nov28 by Propagandaleiter *by Erik Norling* *Source:* „ ELLOS NO FUERON NEUTRALES. Voluntarios suecos en la Waffen SS europea. (1940-1945) “ (2002, 330 pages.) During WWII, between 175 and 200 Swedish volunteers, (possibly as many as 315), served in the Waffen-SS, in spite of the fact that Sweden was a neutral country with a strong pro-Allied public opinion. The number of Swedish volunteers in the Waffen-SS might have been 2,000 to 3,000 had the Swedish authorities not set up so many obstacles to reach Germany and had Finland not admitted foreign volunteers into their armed forces, where they spoke the same language as a great part of the population. Thus it was easier to join the Finnish Army than the Waffen-SS. Thus, approximately 75% to 80% of the Swedes in the Waffen-SS had already served in the Finland before volunteering and all of them reached the Waffen-SS by illegally crossing the borders. The number of Swedes KIA can be estimated around 40-50, who fell or died during the battles in the Ukraine, the Caucasus, the Baltic States, Pomerania and during the final Battle of Berlin. During the first years of the war most of the Swedish volunteers were to be found on the eastern front in the SS Division „Wiking“. From the summer 1943 onwards the majority of the volunteers served in the SS Panzer Grenadier Division „Nordland“, where together with Ethnic Swedes from Estonia they belonged to the so called „Swedish Company“, (as it was designated by III. Germanic Corps commander SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner) in the division’s Armoured Recce Battalion. In addition Swedish volunteers were to be found in many other SS units („Freikorps Danmark“. „Den Norske Legion”, Division „Nord“, „Leibstandarte“, „Totenkopf“ etc.). Also, SS-Oberscharführer Sven-Erik Olsson served in the SS division „Frundsberg“ and was decorated with the German Cross in Gold. nseuropa.wordpress.com