This article explores the pre-war background of the Swiss, Swedish and Danish men who volunteered for the Nazi Waffen-SS combat formation during the Second World War. Through a detailed biographical examination of officer corps volunteers, this article contradicts what I call the myth of the volunteers – a long-standing popular and to some extent scholarly interpretation that perceives the volunteers as lower-class, social outsiders of a criminally inclined or mentally unstable nature. Instead this article demonstrates that these men held a distinctly European outlook and were characterised by a high level of education, intellect and their strong personal character. Moreover, they had with few exceptions developed a longing for a radical re...
This article examines the mixture of hostile and amicable relations that Bavarian fighting men had w...
Krieg, Feind und Volkskunde Der Artikel untersucht, welche Rolle die Volkskunde, ein zu den Sozial...
The article discusses the nature and the narrative framing of resistance by German front line soldie...
This article explores the pre-war background of the Swiss, Swedish and Danish men who volunteered fo...
This dissertation examines foreigners--Danes, Swedes, and Swiss--who volunteered to join the Nazi SS...
Universität Basel (Switzerland) The following article is based on two important documentary sources:...
The article bridges a transnational overview on the participation of Germany’s allied forces in the ...
Over two million foreigners served in the ranks of the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS. They came from v...
Coming from various occupied territories and uninvolved or neutral countries, such as Spain and Swit...
East European Foreign Volunteers in German Ostheer, SS, and Police Divisions Pacifying the Warsaw Up...
Roughly 1,400 Finnish volunteers served in the German Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation and its Wiking...
This article examines the officers who led the Habsburg Army during the First World War. It highligh...
More than 10,000 Luxembourgish soldiers and recruits and an unknown number of Luxembourgish men and ...
In recent years there has been an increased interest in the legacy of the Fourteenth Grenadier Divis...
Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were two successor states of the Austro-Hungarian empire at great pain...
This article examines the mixture of hostile and amicable relations that Bavarian fighting men had w...
Krieg, Feind und Volkskunde Der Artikel untersucht, welche Rolle die Volkskunde, ein zu den Sozial...
The article discusses the nature and the narrative framing of resistance by German front line soldie...
This article explores the pre-war background of the Swiss, Swedish and Danish men who volunteered fo...
This dissertation examines foreigners--Danes, Swedes, and Swiss--who volunteered to join the Nazi SS...
Universität Basel (Switzerland) The following article is based on two important documentary sources:...
The article bridges a transnational overview on the participation of Germany’s allied forces in the ...
Over two million foreigners served in the ranks of the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS. They came from v...
Coming from various occupied territories and uninvolved or neutral countries, such as Spain and Swit...
East European Foreign Volunteers in German Ostheer, SS, and Police Divisions Pacifying the Warsaw Up...
Roughly 1,400 Finnish volunteers served in the German Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation and its Wiking...
This article examines the officers who led the Habsburg Army during the First World War. It highligh...
More than 10,000 Luxembourgish soldiers and recruits and an unknown number of Luxembourgish men and ...
In recent years there has been an increased interest in the legacy of the Fourteenth Grenadier Divis...
Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia were two successor states of the Austro-Hungarian empire at great pain...
This article examines the mixture of hostile and amicable relations that Bavarian fighting men had w...
Krieg, Feind und Volkskunde Der Artikel untersucht, welche Rolle die Volkskunde, ein zu den Sozial...
The article discusses the nature and the narrative framing of resistance by German front line soldie...