Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts
1940-1945 VOLUNTEER OR CONSCRIPT OF NON-GERMAN ORIGIN INDUCTED INTO THE WAFFEN-SS
Waffen SS foreign volunteers and conscripts; Foreign volunteers in the SS; Frontkjemper; Foreign Waffen-SS; List of Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts
During World War II, the Waffen-SS recruited significant numbers of non-Germans, both as volunteers and conscripts. In total some 500,000 non-Germans and ethnic Germans from outside Germany, mostly from German-occupied Europe, were recruited between 1940 and 1945.