Erratum: at 9.14 - At that point it was the Knight's Cross instead of the Iron Cross. Dutch Waffen-SS PART I: ruclips.net/video/bQlF0ia-ABA/видео.html Dutch Waffen-SS PART II: ruclips.net/video/MXLjRwGGx4U/видео.html Dutch Waffen-SS PART III: ruclips.net/video/GhoVdnNLdfU/видео.html
@@rasmuspallesen4599 These are school maps used in schools (not anymore since digital projection has replaced this). Can't tell you where to get maps like these.
As a military veteran going to college my first division I studied was the 2ND SS Panzer “Das Reich” in a book called Knights of Steel by Mark Yeager. My degree is in American military history from 1600 to today! Always happy to see awesome history.
@@HistoryHustle Be looking forward to that video. Even though my dad's family had migrated to the US 40 years before, we still knew a lot of people in the NL when it was invaded. Specifically the stretch along the rivers from Arnhem to Utrecht. They loved the Germans at first, viewing them as cousins. The Germans were polite and paid for any merchandise. Many young Dutch men were attracted to the skill, discipline and dogma of a united Germania and German military which was far more exciting than the Dutch army. By 1944 the Germans were getting desperate for supplies and began confiscating farm products and whatever they could use. The honeymoon was over.
@@LuvBorderCollies ... the honeymoon was already over earlier. In 1941 there was a ‘huge’ strike as a protest to the measures of the occupiers and the treatment of the jews. It was the only strike in an occupied country as I understand it.
Fantastic overview of a contention filled subject. This series of videos is a must watch for people who want to learn about these soldiers from a complicated time.
The added color and focus you provide is very much appreciated. It's amazing how nuanced people's motives were to fight on behalf of the Germans and your personal connections and diary excerpts are invaluable. Bedankt!
I have a head to toe "WESTLAND" Dutch Oberscharführer combat ensemble from the plane tree helmet cover to the Leder/filzstiefel, M43 Heeres schnitt Jacke, 44' Pea Patten winterhosen , Totale kampfausrüstung, ALLES from a Dutch Veteran. He was injured in late 44' on Fronturlaub from the Ostfront during a tiefflieger attack on the Dutch/Belgian border. I've owned well over 300 SS uniforms over the years but this ensemble was the most intact and complete. All awards included. WIKING had a very storied history on the Ostfront with horrific losses.
One correction tho, 5.SS Wiking did consist Finns already when Barbarassa broke out. 400ish out of total 1200ish men that had combat experience were most immidietly transferred in other units of Wiking division. Rest 900 formed the Finnisches Freiwillige Battalion wich went for training. But back to the 400 men. They were most indeed trassferred straight to other units of the division (they came with first patch of Finnish volunteers in first week of june of 41), some got only week long training of German weaponary and commands, and I also ad, most didn't speak German. These men were called "Divisioonan Miehet= Men of the Division" and the rest 900 that formed Finnish battalion were called "Pataljoonan Pojat= The boy battallion". Some saw this as one form of illtreatment from germans toward finns. Cos Finns were promised to be kept as one group, but 400 extra combat experienced troops just before Barbarossa started seemed to be more important to Germans. Tho I have to ad, not all of the 400 went in combat when Barbarossa broke out, numbers are up to debate they are more like suggestions, numbers wary around 50-200men, so truth is hard to say. There were already talk of Germans treachery and lack of intrest to keep any promises. Like men with combat experience and officer and NCO ranks were promised to get equal ones, but most got one or two lower or none and didn't get command suitable for the rank. This bred more unsatisfaction among the men. Anyway. Most of "Men of Division" were transferred to Finnisches Freiwillige battallion of 5.SS Reg Nordland (forming its 3rd battallion) after it was trained and moved to front, but according to some sources not all did transfer. Summa summarum: So some finns were part of Wikings units when Barbarossa started in late june. Small things just wanted to point it out. Sources: Mauno Jokipii "Panttipataljoona", and many others (That book i mentioned, is basically the largest and most covering book of the unit, it uses lots of memoirs, interviews, german and finnish documentation etc. Its the pillarstone when Finnish Waffen SS is in guestion. Tho lately it has gotten some controversy cos it didn't include anything about if Finns were involved in warcrimes. But is totally other debate)
This was stated in the book VELDGRAUW (Evertjan van Roekel). Henrik Meinander wrote in his article in the book JOINING HITLER'S CRUSADE: "In the end, the two parties reached a compromise. A little over 400 of the 1,400 Finnish SS soldiers were sent to various units of the multi-European Wiking Division, which fought its whole war on the eastern front, whereas the rest of the Finns formed a separate Finnish battalion within the Wiking division. The oath dilemma was also resolved smoothly: foreign SS soldiers would swear their loyalty to ‘the Leader of the Great- Germanic Community’. Mobilization began in May 1941, with the last Finnish SS soldiers reaching their training camps in Central Europe less than a week before Operation Barbarossa began." (page 33-34). I don't assume these men were sent to the front straight away with only twee weeks of training. If so, I stand corrected.
Thanks for the interesting video again. The more you study about ww2 the more you have to learn. I really appreciate all your work to help people with more detailed history. Do you planning on making videos about POWs as well? Keep up with the good work! Greetings from South Korea
I copy you on that. Not many videos about that. But a very new one bring the myth down that said that there were high deathrate of german POW in russian. If you take out the POWs of Stalingrad the deathrate would be the same as for the german pows in US and GB. And most agree that the PoWs of Stalingrad was so sick of starvation that they would had died even if the german had succes in breaking the encircelement.
@@HistoryHustle Yes TIK is fantastic. Just sad it is hard to find anything about him on the internet, so hard to discuss his point of view with professors in history here in Denmark. I remember him saying he actual have an university degree in history.
Very interesting film. A difficult subject to cover without making it look like it's supporting their actions but you achieved it very well, I look forward to your future videos. Thank you
@@HistoryHustle oh mate I'm watching them all. I love your take on the subject and the crazy Dutch accent. My history teacher was an inspiration at school and I never lost the love of the subject.
"You proved yourself in every possible way"...... Like in killing of thousands of unarmed men, women, children, mentally disabled etc??? Or did you mean something else? These people do not deserve respect, they deserve a rope around their necks. Greetings from the Netherlands.
Ohh what a great video! No hero’s in war that’s for sure. Only men trying to save their friends and survive them selves. War crimes are committed on both sides. Only the winners decide. But an amazing production as always!!
@@HistoryHustle It’s an eye for an eye and the whole world will go blind! Yep it’s just important to point out that both sides did some dirty work. It’s hard to keep a street fight clean!
This is the first video I came across that mentioned the massacre of prisoners by the retreating Soviets in 1941. To me this was a significant occurrence, as it motivated the Nazis and their allies and was used to recruit locals to their cause. Nazis subsequently used Soviet atrocities as the excuse to escalate their own terror campaigns. This is a part of history that deserves more attention.
author've forgotten to mention of fact that Russians didn't capture the SS officers and soldiers. Russians just finished them off immediately . It was due to all atrocities what they did for civilian people.
@@voshche Actually, Red Army was really intent on capturing SS soldiers, but rarely did in the early years of the war. Atrocities by the SS only became known after about the first month of Barbarossa, and that was usually the Einsatzgruppen, with the civilians in the area tending to help the SS round up Soviet sympathizers.
@@MyLateralThawts Members of the Waffen-SS were involved in numerous atrocities.[12] At the post-war Nuremberg Trials, the Waffen-SS was judged to be a criminal organisation due to its connection to the Nazi Party and direct involvement in numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity.
@@voshche you’re getting the timeline confused. Operation Barbarossa began on June 22 1941. No Soviet soldiers had encountered any SS troops prior to that date. In the following months, as the reputation of both the Waffen SS and that of the separate Einsatzgruppen (who did wear nearly identical uniforms, save for the “SD” badge they had on their sleeve) grew to be ruthless in carrying out their assigned tasks. The Soviet forces had already by this point engaged in atrocities against the various local nations recently conquered by the Red Army (Eastern Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) as well as atrocities against the Ukrainians, the Kulaks or indeed anyone deemed a threat to the revolution. Let me make this clear, the Soviets early in Barbarossa had never encountered the SS before, so they thought them no different from any other German formation. It was only after a month or more of combat that their reputation grew and only then did they engage in battles in which no quarter was given. However, Soviet troops had long before already engaged in war crimes (see Katyn Massacre, something Putin himself agreed took place, before the first German soldiers even set foot on Soviet territory).
@@MyLateralThawts you will tell me about atrocities 😁. I've heard plenty stories from my relatives, and if take into consideration the casualties civilian population --14 million . Thats getting clear of great mission SS divisions to genocide Slav folks.
@@HistoryHustle Right now, it's learning all I can about the two World Wars. My great grandfather frought in France in the first one and my grandpa, his son , frought in the Italian campaign into Germany on the second. I want to understand all I can about their world. My mom and I are waiting for their service records from the US government.
Interessant om beelden te zien bij het boek. Ik ben Veldgrauw aan het lezen en het boek van Kistemaker wordt het volgende boek. Bedankt en ik kijk uit naar het deel over Wiking en de oorlogsmisdaden. (het boek gaf me koude rillingen).
My great uncle, from a place near Venlo, joined the division in 1944 aged about 19. I don't know what he was thinking, it was so late in the war it was clearly pointless. He was wounded a few months later in battle and died in a hospital shortly thereafter.
He may have know my grandfather who was part of the artillery unit. He was the one who telescopically measured the distance for the 88mm cannons. He said they had 18 of them. He was 17 1/2 when he joined.
Always hustling history in the most interesting way for us, keep up the good work. It is worthwhile to remind the viewers as you did that these men were not heroes and did partake in war crimes.
Very interesting and informative presentation! How were the Dutch SS volunteers treated/ viewed after the end of the war once they returned back to their homes?
Mijn oma heeft haar meisjesachternaam weer aangenomen na te zijn kaalgeschoren, geslagen én verkracht door "mannen" van de BS. Mijn opa is gesneuveld in 1944 in Rusland als Waffen SS Unterscharführer tijdens gevechten om Narva. Ik word altijd onpasselijk als ik die in blauwe overall,s met Oranje armband en stengun verkleedde gasten zie staan op de Waaldorpse vlakte. Nederland heeft kilo,s boter op het hoofd. Prins Bernhard was lid van de SS én de NSDAP, werd op het schild gehesen als held van het verzet dat er amper was en wat er was waren communisten. De veteranen die wél terugkwamen zijn behandeld als beesten, geslagen gemarteld en vermoord. Ach voor enkelen nog terecht óók. Een bizar stuk geschiedenis waar zorgvuldig over gezwegen wordt.
@@dickvansteijn4115 Ssssst.. Dat mag je niet zeggen! Dat is publiek geheim... Je mag natuurlijk het sprookje niet kapot maken dat zo'n beetje iedereen zijn opa in het verzet zat. En het koningshuis moet wel beschermd blijven natuurlijk. Je Maintiendrai!
One day yes. Maybe this Summer if I can travel to Slovakia, but I really have to see what's possible. Slovakia is still very underrepresented on this channel (heck, on many channels!) but I will change that. Not today or tomorrow, but in the future I will.
Your presentation was very well made and wonderfully detailed! Thank you for noting the prowess of these men, even if they committed awful deeds as well. Have a great day.
Fun fact: Joseph Mengele served with the 5th SS-Panzer Division 'Wiking' on the Eastern Front as a Battalion medical officer. In 1942, Mengele was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class, Wound Badge in black and was appointed to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer for saving two German soldiers from a burning tank. Afterwards, he was appointed to Auschwitz-Birchenau concentration camp as a Camp Physician.
Ik hou echt niet van het politieke praatje op het einde, je maakt een educatief filmpje, je hoeft jezelf niet te verontschuldigen of te verdedigen. Ik snap het wel, en vind dan eigenlijk ook dat diegenen die hier een verkeerd beeld van krijgen zichzelf goed achter de oren moeten krabben.
Dank voor je bericht. Reden hiervoor is simpel: veel mensen zien deze strijders als helden. Anderen gooien het weer over een andere boeg door te beweren dat ik het voor ze opneem. Geenszins het geval. Overigens, ik denk dat je deze video ook wel interessant gaat vinden: ruclips.net/video/tjlzvbrH76k/видео.html
@@HistoryHustle Je hebt inderdaad gelijk, gelukkig vinden we beiden dat geschiedenis vanuit een neutraal oogpunt benaderd moet worden. Ik ga de video kijken!
In the sixties I worked in a remote location with a man who had spent about 3 years in the 5th. The Soviets were better equipped, better supplied and better led, he claimed. The Germans had a superior training. Time and again they fell back, creating new positions and were totally exhausted, only to be told the enemy tanks were 25 km past them. So it was abandoning heavy equipement and flee. This was the rule. And, they saw Wochenschau propaganda where it was always said: "Die Luftwaffe ist auch dabei" but nobody had seen a German plane in weeks.
That argument doesn't make any sense. In that way we can never condamn the perpetrated horrors from the past, only because we weren't alive at that time.
Some great original photographs and material makes this series one of the best I've seen on this subject. However the heroic status of individuals is hard to judge. You could argue that it is individual conduct that defines a hero not the organisation or country he fought for? I'm not sure it is for us to decide.
The actual photo's of the period are what makes these video's so much more interesting. I wonder how many of those volunteers either Dutch, Swiss, Norwegians or whatever were truly committed to "National Socialism" or were just swept up in the moment. As for the Finns my understanding is that Finnish volunteers joined up mainly in order to be able to fight the Communists who had taken much Finnish territory during the Winter War. I don't recall reading any instances of Finnish troops participating in war crimes.
Thanks for your reply. I actually did read about Finnish war crimes. These were the first Finnish volunteers that served in the Wiking Division (these were mostly pro-Nazi). Basically what I cover in this video also applied to them. But on the Finnish Front with the draftees it was a different story.
@@HistoryHustle It is more of a factual statement than a partisan comment. He seems to appreciate the sacrifice his ancestors made to live without the bolshevik yoke.
@@HistoryHustle I think there is more in this story then a lot of people want to know. To my utter amazement the first time I read about Operation Barbarossa was a preemptive strike was a Russian military historian.
Which recognition is deserved when so many atrocities was committed . You probably would have enrolled living in that era .But yes they were good fighters who fought for the wrong ideology while their front man committed suicide leaving that stain on Germany for the next 1000 years .
This al came closer to me then i ever expected when i found out a brother of my grandfather joined the Waffen SS and probably this Wiking division in 1944. Now trying to find his persecution files of the ‘bijzondere rechtspleging’ in the National archives of the Netherlands.
@@HistoryHustle no i was to young when he passed away and it was a family secret, my parents knew he was convicted but thought it was only for something small like black-market. We think nobody in the family alive today knows about it. We found out about it trough a file send to us passed week. In which Its stated he “fought for the Waffen SS from may 44 till 9 may 45” the place Stublau is Also mentioned, we hope to find more details in the persecution files (CABR)
Still a very sensitive topic here in the Netherlands. As a result, the commission that wrote the official history of the Netherlands during WW2, kept most of the details out of it. Thanks to German records, we now know that at one stage 21.000 Dutchmen recieved pay through the SS Paymaster General. Next step is that historians acknowledge that the Wiking division was reorganized and fought in the battle of Arnhem. I know from a man who served with the SS. Official history is that they reorganized in Poland, and were never to be heard of again in official orders of Battle. Dutch official history does recognise that the majority of SS Wiking members were in Rotterdam at the end of the war. Having tough battle hardened SS units beating crack British and Polish paratroopers is also a far more likely scenario than the official history. This states that crack paratroopers were beaten by a rag-tag army of AA gunners, river police, cooks and medics. Imho this is an insult to the heroes that dropped near Arnhem. Btw: I am not a Nazi, nor a fascist. I think it's important to learn from history, which will not happen if you lie about it.
Think you're gravely misinformed. Wiking wasn't at Arnhem. Dutch SS-volunteers were, but these served in Landstorm Nederland. Some of its officers were Dutch Eastern Front veterans who might have served in Wiking ór the Dutch Volunteer Legion. Apart of that, the Wiking Division itself wasn't there.
@@HistoryHustle I did some additional digging, and you are right, no Wiking at Arnhem. However, I am still convinced that there were other Dutch SS units than Landstorm at Arnhem, definitely SS and definitely units with East-front experience.
I have an illustrated book on this division! Really nice! Well put together plenty of pictures of the commanders, troops and their equipment! Great video!
Their interest in the northern peoples is explained by the belief that the Aryans came from Karelia (east of Finland). They did cultural research there just before the war. It has been made into a book by Himmler's (SS-leader) kantele player. In English? Karelia also has its roots in Finnish mythology. Called the Kalevala.
My grandfather's brother served in westland. He was told he would get a police education in germany by a recruiter and sent to munich where he was trained en eventually placed in the waffen-ss. he served untill Uman where he was wounded and sent to austria to recover and then back to the Netherlands to work as a police instructor at the schalkhaar police school. he was awarded the iron cross, black wounded badge and the infrantry assault badge. in early 44 he was recruited by the SD and later fought in a penal battalion till the end of the war. The americans released him and sent him back home and in 1946 he was arrested in the hague, the netherlands and served long sentences till 63 for treason and other crimes.
@@HistoryHustle It was kept secret, not even their sons and daughters knew, I found out accidentally by looking in old news papers from 1945/46, there were multiple articles describing him and that he was wanted. I have known him but he passed in 2002 before i found out. His son told me his dad mentioning that he went bald because he wore a helmet during the war, just not that it was a german helmet. My grandfather served in the Landstorm division near Arnhem, transfering from the jeugdstorm to the SS when he turned 17 in 1944, he eventually surrendered to the Americans aswell, spending a year in a pow camp, He never spoke about the war, just that he hated it and that he worked at a farm in germany, everything i know comes from files from the national archives in the hague and germany.
to point out that Dutch Waffen-SS Volunteers (like French Waffen volunteers) had an employment contract, with salary, they benefited between 1946 and 2021 from their rights accumulated at retirement between 1940 and 1945! with the complicity of their administration ...
Viking was mentioned in a book I just read Sniper On The Eastern Front. Pretty sure he said they basically got wiped out. Guess I’ll see how it goes with this video/
@@HistoryHustle I appreciate you taking the time to reply to viewers. I feel like learning about word war 2 never ends. I’ve been watching and reading about it since I was a little kid, and I still learn totally new things. It’s crazy. Thanks for the Videos, I look forward to continued content.
As an indonesian, i hear that a lot of these man are being deployed in indonesia during the independence war to "redeem" themself, is that true? Like the video though, very comprehensive and detailed, kudos to you for that.
Yes it is. A lot of Dutch Waffen SS veterans fought in Indonesia during the "Politionele Acties" not only to redeem themselves but also because they had actual combat experience, the rest of the Dutch Army were amateurs hiding behind their backs and shitting their pants while fighting in the jungle During the trip to Indonesia per schip these veterans were mocked and beaten. "Just you wait" a lot of them warned.
Probably true...many former Wehrmacht and SS men couldn't return home for many reasons including the fact that their homes were now in Communist control. ....its a little known fact that many of the French forces who fought in what became known as Vietnam were ex Wehrmacht. ....
@@dickvansteijn4115 interesting. .. i had read that many were former SS both German and volksdeutsch who were unwelcome in their former home countries and were eagerly recruited by the French Foreign legion to try to subdue the restive Viet Cong of Ho Chi Minh......
Hello Stefan... I must say, ur channel is awesome... Would love if u could do a video on Polish, Dutch and other country volunteers who fought in the British army... And also a vud on Canada in Normandy Thanks Love from India🇮🇳
Great work ! I have the same story, but with the "Mediterranean Europeans" who lived in the "european empire of africa"' Europeans who left Spain, Italy, France, for for economic and religious reasons,between 1800 and 1920, and who joined the American forces to defeat the "viking", in 1944, "mano a mano" "en corps à corps" , and win! in their generosity as a victorious , they left the land rights to the vanquished! who became "viking" multimillionaire landowners between 1950 and 2021 ...
Oké. Zal een handjevol zijn geweest. Vermoed dat dit OT'ers (of NSKK'ers) waren. Overigens zijn veel collaborateurs wel gestraft. Daarover meer in de toekomst.
In January 45 the Red Army reached The KZ Auschwitz. a Shirt time after, Reporters from russian Newspapers Like "Prawda" , Iswetia, and from the Red Army interviewed the remained priseners. Ist IT possible to get the articles from anyone?
Sir. Your history lessons are So ..Well researched. Polish descent give are take 10% 1650years of personal history. Your Excellent presentations of Not only Polish/Central European history with a Realty...Rarely seen in a historian let alone a teacher. Your pupils are Truly Privileged. Thank you for presenting the TRUTH. Take care in this 100yr. Cycle
I look forward to a video of Free Dutch Forces that fought for the allies. Interestingly how many served for the allies, as we know 55000 Dutch served for the Axis/ Nazis.
Erratum: at 9.14 - At that point it was the Knight's Cross instead of the Iron Cross.
Dutch Waffen-SS PART I: ruclips.net/video/bQlF0ia-ABA/видео.html
Dutch Waffen-SS PART II: ruclips.net/video/MXLjRwGGx4U/видео.html
Dutch Waffen-SS PART III: ruclips.net/video/GhoVdnNLdfU/видео.html
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That one Swiss soldier must have felt super lonely at the start!
@@PremierHistory Guess so...
Can you tell me anything about the map that is hanging on your wall behind you?😁 I’ve been looking to collect something like that myself!
@@rasmuspallesen4599 These are school maps used in schools (not anymore since digital projection has replaced this). Can't tell you where to get maps like these.
Great use of multiple sources, not alot of folks show that. Keep up the good work.
Many thanks :)
Interesting video History Hustle! Keep up the great work!! 🙂
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@@shwetaseth1352 Me too. As well as the History Hustle. Thank you! थैंक
@@marcoskehl Thanks!
Thank you for pronouncing the name of the division correctly
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As a military veteran going to college my first division I studied was the 2ND SS Panzer “Das Reich” in a book called Knights of Steel by Mark Yeager. My degree is in American military history from 1600 to today! Always happy to see awesome history.
Thanks for your reply. Next video will be about the Dutch Volunteer Legion.
@@HistoryHustle Be looking forward to that video. Even though my dad's family had migrated to the US 40 years before, we still knew a lot of people in the NL when it was invaded. Specifically the stretch along the rivers from Arnhem to Utrecht.
They loved the Germans at first, viewing them as cousins. The Germans were polite and paid for any merchandise. Many young Dutch men were attracted to the skill, discipline and dogma of a united Germania and German military which was far more exciting than the Dutch army.
By 1944 the Germans were getting desperate for supplies and began confiscating farm products and whatever they could use. The honeymoon was over.
@@LuvBorderCollies ... the honeymoon was already over earlier. In 1941 there was a ‘huge’ strike as a protest to the measures of the occupiers and the treatment of the jews. It was the only strike in an occupied country as I understand it.
I love how he always reads every single comment
Try to do my best.
@@HistoryHustle awesome!
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He is a teacher...😁
Fantastic overview of a contention filled subject. This series of videos is a must watch for people who want to learn about these soldiers from a complicated time.
The added color and focus you provide is very much appreciated. It's amazing how nuanced people's motives were to fight on behalf of the Germans and your personal connections and diary excerpts are invaluable. Bedankt!
Thanks for your reply.
I have a head to toe "WESTLAND" Dutch Oberscharführer combat ensemble from the plane tree helmet cover to the Leder/filzstiefel, M43 Heeres schnitt Jacke, 44' Pea Patten winterhosen , Totale kampfausrüstung, ALLES from a Dutch Veteran. He was injured in late 44' on Fronturlaub from the Ostfront during a tiefflieger attack on the Dutch/Belgian border. I've owned well over 300 SS uniforms over the years but this ensemble was the most intact and complete. All awards included. WIKING had a very storied history on the Ostfront with horrific losses.
A true collector!
Absolutely look forward to your uploads Stefan!
Thanks.
Interesting video dude! Love it how the memoires bring your story alive! 👍🏻
Thanks!
Always find your videos interesting .about things not normally takes about .
Thank you for what have learned
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One correction tho, 5.SS Wiking did consist Finns already when Barbarassa broke out. 400ish out of total 1200ish men that had combat experience were most immidietly transferred in other units of Wiking division. Rest 900 formed the Finnisches Freiwillige Battalion wich went for training.
But back to the 400 men. They were most indeed trassferred straight to other units of the division (they came with first patch of Finnish volunteers in first week of june of 41), some got only week long training of German weaponary and commands, and I also ad, most didn't speak German. These men were called "Divisioonan Miehet= Men of the Division" and the rest 900 that formed Finnish battalion were called "Pataljoonan Pojat= The boy battallion". Some saw this as one form of illtreatment from germans toward finns. Cos Finns were promised to be kept as one group, but 400 extra combat experienced troops just before Barbarossa started seemed to be more important to Germans. Tho I have to ad, not all of the 400 went in combat when Barbarossa broke out, numbers are up to debate they are more like suggestions, numbers wary around 50-200men, so truth is hard to say.
There were already talk of Germans treachery and lack of intrest to keep any promises. Like men with combat experience and officer and NCO ranks were promised to get equal ones, but most got one or two lower or none and didn't get command suitable for the rank. This bred more unsatisfaction among the men.
Anyway. Most of "Men of Division" were transferred to Finnisches Freiwillige battallion of 5.SS Reg Nordland (forming its 3rd battallion) after it was trained and moved to front, but according to some sources not all did transfer.
Summa summarum: So some finns were part of Wikings units when Barbarossa started in late june. Small things just wanted to point it out.
Sources: Mauno Jokipii "Panttipataljoona", and many others (That book i mentioned, is basically the largest and most covering book of the unit, it uses lots of memoirs, interviews, german and finnish documentation etc. Its the pillarstone when Finnish Waffen SS is in guestion. Tho lately it has gotten some controversy cos it didn't include anything about if Finns were involved in warcrimes. But is totally other debate)
About the panttipataljoona and alledged war crimes: There really isn't that much physical hard evidence to prove them beyond any reasonable doubt.
@@setoste Yeh thats what I'm referring. There is lots of "ifs and buts" but nothing solid
This was stated in the book VELDGRAUW (Evertjan van Roekel). Henrik Meinander wrote in his article in the book JOINING HITLER'S CRUSADE:
"In the end, the two parties reached a compromise. A little over 400 of the 1,400 Finnish SS soldiers were sent to various units of the multi-European Wiking Division, which fought its whole war on the eastern front, whereas the rest of the Finns formed a separate Finnish battalion within the Wiking division. The oath dilemma was also resolved smoothly: foreign SS soldiers would swear their loyalty to ‘the Leader of the Great- Germanic Community’. Mobilization began in May 1941, with the last Finnish SS soldiers reaching their training camps in Central Europe less than a week before Operation Barbarossa began."
(page 33-34).
I don't assume these men were sent to the front straight away with only twee weeks of training. If so, I stand corrected.
@@setoste The book "Hakaristin Ritarit" paints a very different picture about the volunteers - and it includes personal notes about war crimes too.
@@ZeAngrySnowmongol Nope, no ifs and buts, there are their own records of those crimes.
Thanks for the interesting video again. The more you study about ww2 the more you have to learn. I really appreciate all your work to help people with more detailed history. Do you planning on making videos about POWs as well? Keep up with the good work! Greetings from South Korea
I copy you on that. Not many videos about that. But a very new one bring the myth down that said that there were high deathrate of german POW in russian. If you take out the POWs of Stalingrad the deathrate would be the same as for the german pows in US and GB. And most agree that the PoWs of Stalingrad was so sick of starvation that they would had died even if the german had succes in breaking the encircelement.
Hope to cover more about POWs in the future. There's an interesting video on that by TIK:
ruclips.net/video/rS_59PHhO4M/видео.html
@@HistoryHustle Yes TIK is fantastic. Just sad it is hard to find anything about him on the internet, so hard to discuss his point of view with professors in history here in Denmark. I remember him saying he actual have an university degree in history.
Interesting story. Again well told too!
Greets, T.
Thanks!
This was awesome, Do some other units such as the Baltic SS Divisions (most awarded Units of the SS!!!)
Not on my to-do-soon list but sure one day.
@@HistoryHustle if not in this way then
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Thx mate. Nice overview, and also important: no brown tinted glasses that often dominates the subject on YT.
Thanks for watching.
Thank you so much for these classes
Glad you appreciate it.
Very interesting film. A difficult subject to cover without making it look like it's supporting their actions but you achieved it very well, I look forward to your future videos. Thank you
Thanks. Have you seen the previous ones also?
@@HistoryHustle oh mate I'm watching them all. I love your take on the subject and the crazy Dutch accent. My history teacher was an inspiration at school and I never lost the love of the subject.
Great 👌
As always great topics sourced if more details are desired . Accessible but true to the great ideals of good history . .thanks again!
Great to read.
Much respect to those Netherlandic fighters... You proved yourself in every possible way. Greetings from Austria
Yeah... you come across as someone who glorifies the Third Reich. I'm not fond of that...
@@HistoryHustle I'm not glorifying NS of course. I like the common struggle of Europeans against communism.
I see.
"You proved yourself in every possible way"...... Like in killing of thousands of unarmed men, women, children, mentally disabled etc??? Or did you mean something else? These people do not deserve respect, they deserve a rope around their necks. Greetings from the Netherlands.
Another great vid.. Thank-you sir👍
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Ohh what a great video! No hero’s in war that’s for sure. Only men trying to save their friends and survive them selves.
War crimes are committed on both sides.
Only the winners decide.
But an amazing production as always!!
Thanks for your reply. I do have to note that some sides committed more war crimes than others. Western Allies far less than the Axis.
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It’s an eye for an eye and the whole world will go blind!
Yep it’s just important to point out that both sides did some dirty work.
It’s hard to keep a street fight clean!
The Nazi started out dirty sgot dirtier and stayed dirtier ruclips.net/video/EEraxud7vZ4/видео.html
The parallels between then and now in Ukraine are amazing!
@@browngreen933 please explain.
@@HistoryHustle defending the free Europe.. 👍
Great video!!
Thanks!
This is the first video I came across that mentioned the massacre of prisoners by the retreating Soviets in 1941. To me this was a significant occurrence, as it motivated the Nazis and their allies and was used to recruit locals to their cause. Nazis subsequently used Soviet atrocities as the excuse to escalate their own terror campaigns. This is a part of history that deserves more attention.
author've forgotten to mention of fact that Russians didn't capture the SS officers and soldiers. Russians just finished them off immediately . It was due to all atrocities what they did for civilian people.
@@voshche Actually, Red Army was really intent on capturing SS soldiers, but rarely did in the early years of the war. Atrocities by the SS only became known after about the first month of Barbarossa, and that was usually the Einsatzgruppen, with the civilians in the area tending to help the SS round up Soviet sympathizers.
@@MyLateralThawts Members of the Waffen-SS were involved in numerous atrocities.[12] At the post-war Nuremberg Trials, the Waffen-SS was judged to be a criminal organisation due to its connection to the Nazi Party and direct involvement in numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity.
@@voshche you’re getting the timeline confused. Operation Barbarossa began on June 22 1941. No Soviet soldiers had encountered any SS troops prior to that date. In the following months, as the reputation of both the Waffen SS and that of the separate Einsatzgruppen (who did wear nearly identical uniforms, save for the “SD” badge they had on their sleeve) grew to be ruthless in carrying out their assigned tasks. The Soviet forces had already by this point engaged in atrocities against the various local nations recently conquered by the Red Army (Eastern Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) as well as atrocities against the Ukrainians, the Kulaks or indeed anyone deemed a threat to the revolution. Let me make this clear, the Soviets early in Barbarossa had never encountered the SS before, so they thought them no different from any other German formation. It was only after a month or more of combat that their reputation grew and only then did they engage in battles in which no quarter was given. However, Soviet troops had long before already engaged in war crimes (see Katyn Massacre, something Putin himself agreed took place, before the first German soldiers even set foot on Soviet territory).
@@MyLateralThawts you will tell me about atrocities 😁. I've heard plenty stories from my relatives, and if take into consideration the casualties civilian population --14 million . Thats getting clear of great mission SS divisions to genocide Slav folks.
Great program
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I've been waiting for this....big thumb up
Thank you, Rowan!
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130👍🏻 Top interesting, thank you Stefan🤗🌏
Thanks, Tom!
Welcome ✌️
Tanks for sharing again, Stefan ...
You're welcome!
I stumbled across your channel. I'm glad I did! I just subscribed and will checking out your other videos. I learned something new. Thanks!
Great, thanks for your reply, Kristi. What history are you most interested in?
@@HistoryHustle Right now, it's learning all I can about the two World Wars. My great grandfather frought in France in the first one and my grandpa, his son , frought in the Italian campaign into Germany on the second. I want to understand all I can about their world. My mom and I are waiting for their service records from the US government.
Thanks for sharing. I do have playlists about WW1 and WW2.
This one you might find interesting:
ruclips.net/video/wSRVNRZfswM/видео.html
Great video as usual
Thank you!
Would you ever make a video about the Hlinka Guard or just fascist Slovakia overall?
Perhaps one day. Love to cover Slovakian history on location.
Very interesting, I have red a lot about Wiking and the norwegian volunteers, , greetings from Norway
Thanks for your reply.
Interessant om beelden te zien bij het boek. Ik ben Veldgrauw aan het lezen en het boek van Kistemaker wordt het volgende boek. Bedankt en ik kijk uit naar het deel over Wiking en de oorlogsmisdaden. (het boek gaf me koude rillingen).
Zeker interessante boeken, dank voor je bericht!
Thanks for a great informative video👍
Thanks for your reply.
@@HistoryHustle love your stuff brother💯
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Interesting and appalling, as ever. I have heard of the SS Viking Division but knew very little about it until now. Thankyou.
Thanks for watching.
Very interesting content! Thank you 🙂
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Netjes in elkaar gezet. Altijd handig om mijn geheugen op deze manier op te frissen :)
Bedankt, Tim!
I like your work. BR From CPH Airport. You do a good work. Keep rolling. It's good storys
Thanks, have a good one there.
Een Nederlandse historicus vertelt ons Duitsers onze geschiedenis beter dan welke Duitse professor dan ook. Erg bedankt werter Herr 👍
Grüße aus Hessen
Danke 👍
My great uncle, from a place near Venlo, joined the division in 1944 aged about 19. I don't know what he was thinking, it was so late in the war it was clearly pointless. He was wounded a few months later in battle and died in a hospital shortly thereafter.
Thanks for sharing.
He may have know my grandfather who was part of the artillery unit. He was the one who telescopically measured the distance for the 88mm cannons. He said they had 18 of them. He was 17 1/2 when he joined.
it's called commitment, something today's youth lacks
Always hustling history in the most interesting way for us, keep up the good work. It is worthwhile to remind the viewers as you did that these men were not heroes and did partake in war crimes.
Many thanks as always!
Very well put !!!
War makes its own rules. It’s worth noting that Stalin committed worse crimes than Hitler.
Weer een mooie video man 👍🇳🇱
Bedankt!
Very nice?
Do you plan on covering the NKFD (germans collaborating with the soviets) in the future?
Perhaps in the future.
Great video as always! But where can I get the thumbnail?
The photo of the poster is on Wikipedia.
Very interesting and informative presentation! How were the Dutch SS volunteers treated/ viewed after the end of the war once they returned back to their homes?
Bad and in the future more on that. Thanks for your reply.
Mijn oma heeft haar meisjesachternaam weer aangenomen na te zijn kaalgeschoren, geslagen én verkracht door "mannen" van de BS. Mijn opa is gesneuveld in 1944 in Rusland als Waffen SS Unterscharführer tijdens gevechten om Narva. Ik word altijd onpasselijk als ik die in blauwe overall,s met Oranje armband en stengun verkleedde gasten zie staan op de Waaldorpse vlakte. Nederland heeft kilo,s boter op het hoofd. Prins Bernhard was lid van de SS én de NSDAP, werd op het schild gehesen als held van het verzet dat er amper was en wat er was waren communisten. De veteranen die wél terugkwamen zijn behandeld als beesten, geslagen gemarteld en vermoord. Ach voor enkelen nog terecht óók. Een bizar stuk geschiedenis waar zorgvuldig over gezwegen wordt.
@@dickvansteijn4115 Ssssst.. Dat mag je niet zeggen! Dat is publiek geheim... Je mag natuurlijk het sprookje niet kapot maken dat zo'n beetje iedereen zijn opa in het verzet zat.
En het koningshuis moet wel beschermd blijven natuurlijk. Je Maintiendrai!
@@dickvansteijn4115 respect voor je grootouders
H. Hitler? You're afraid to say Heil Hitler? What the fuck.
I hope you'll do a video about Slovakia one day, even if it was only about Slovak National Uprising it would still be amazing if you did only that.
One day yes. Maybe this Summer if I can travel to Slovakia, but I really have to see what's possible. Slovakia is still very underrepresented on this channel (heck, on many channels!) but I will change that. Not today or tomorrow, but in the future I will.
Your presentation was very well made and wonderfully detailed!
Thank you for noting the prowess of these men, even if they committed awful deeds as well.
Have a great day.
Thanks for your reply, Robert!
Fun fact: Joseph Mengele served with the 5th SS-Panzer Division 'Wiking' on the Eastern Front as a Battalion medical officer. In 1942, Mengele was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class, Wound Badge in black and was appointed to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer for saving two German soldiers from a burning tank. Afterwards, he was appointed to Auschwitz-Birchenau concentration camp as a Camp Physician.
I read that too. Thanks for sharing.
Another fun fact: Leon Degrelle was one of the soldiers Doctor Mengele saved
@@stoggafllik Source?
@@vidcaf8613 Memoirs on the eastern front Leon degrelle
Excellent Content...Prost !!
Thanks!
Another great and informative video keep it up man.
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Ik hou echt niet van het politieke praatje op het einde, je maakt een educatief filmpje, je hoeft jezelf niet te verontschuldigen of te verdedigen.
Ik snap het wel, en vind dan eigenlijk ook dat diegenen die hier een verkeerd beeld van krijgen zichzelf goed achter de oren moeten krabben.
Dank voor je bericht. Reden hiervoor is simpel: veel mensen zien deze strijders als helden. Anderen gooien het weer over een andere boeg door te beweren dat ik het voor ze opneem. Geenszins het geval. Overigens, ik denk dat je deze video ook wel interessant gaat vinden:
ruclips.net/video/tjlzvbrH76k/видео.html
@@HistoryHustle Je hebt inderdaad gelijk, gelukkig vinden we beiden dat geschiedenis vanuit een neutraal oogpunt benaderd moet worden. Ik ga de video kijken!
In the sixties I worked in a remote location with a man who had spent about 3 years in the 5th. The Soviets were better equipped, better supplied and better led, he claimed. The Germans had a superior training. Time and again they fell back, creating new positions and were totally exhausted, only to be told the enemy tanks were 25 km past them. So it was abandoning heavy equipement and flee. This was the rule. And, they saw Wochenschau propaganda where it was always said: "Die Luftwaffe ist auch dabei" but nobody had seen a German plane in weeks.
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
love your content man!! I wish I had a history professor like this
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Great research by using multiple sources.
Have a nice weekend.
Thanks as always!
Thank you Professor. You are keeping the light on. :-)
Thank you, Nikki.
@@HistoryHustle Are you a professor?
High school teacher :)
@@HistoryHustle to me you are a Professor
@@HistoryHustle Still great work you are doing. I remember my high School teachers in history were noone had volunteered for the job.
You cannot judge about any of their actions, unless you lived in that time in history.
That argument doesn't make any sense. In that way we can never condamn the perpetrated horrors from the past, only because we weren't alive at that time.
I like the interactive map
Glad you liked it!
Good Video
Thanks, Daniel!
Some great original photographs and material makes this series one of the best I've seen on this subject. However the heroic status of individuals is hard to judge. You could argue that it is individual conduct that defines a hero not the organisation or country he fought for? I'm not sure it is for us to decide.
Thanks for your reply. I did make this disclaimer to distance myself from neo Nazis and revisionists.
@@HistoryHustle I thought that actually fair enough.
Great video. Question. How long was the initial training of this, and other foreign SS formations before they were ready to be fielded?
Thanks. More on your question here:
ruclips.net/video/GhoVdnNLdfU/видео.html
Thank you. I just subbed.
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These men was brave soldiers!
Please explain.
The actual photo's of the period are what makes these video's so much more interesting. I wonder how many of those volunteers either Dutch, Swiss, Norwegians or whatever were truly committed to "National Socialism" or were just swept up in the moment. As for the Finns my understanding is that Finnish volunteers joined up mainly in order to be able to fight the Communists who had taken much Finnish territory during the Winter War. I don't recall reading any instances of Finnish troops participating in war crimes.
Thanks for your reply. I actually did read about Finnish war crimes. These were the first Finnish volunteers that served in the Wiking Division (these were mostly pro-Nazi). Basically what I cover in this video also applied to them. But on the Finnish Front with the draftees it was a different story.
They were hero's fighting world Bolshevikism to the end!!!
Another partisan comment.
@@HistoryHustle It is more of a factual statement than a partisan comment. He seems to appreciate the sacrifice his ancestors made to live without the bolshevik yoke.
Point being, they didn't contribute to it.
@@HistoryHustle I think there is more in this story then a lot of people want to know. To my utter amazement the first time I read about Operation Barbarossa was a preemptive strike was a Russian military historian.
@@electronicgrinsch I'm willing the appreciate the sacrifice of great Communist and anti Fascist fighters who removed the Nazi scourge from Europe.
the exploits of these guys would make a great movie.....they fought hard and were loyal to the end and that deserves recognition......
A movie would be interesting
Which recognition is deserved when so many atrocities was committed . You probably would have enrolled living in that era .But yes they were good fighters who fought for the wrong ideology while their front man committed suicide leaving that stain on Germany for the next 1000 years .
This al came closer to me then i ever expected when i found out a brother of my grandfather joined the Waffen SS and probably this Wiking division in 1944. Now trying to find his persecution files of the ‘bijzondere rechtspleging’ in the National archives of the Netherlands.
Interesting. Did you ever meet this man and talked about his experiences?
@@HistoryHustle no i was to young when he passed away and it was a family secret, my parents knew he was convicted but thought it was only for something small like black-market. We think nobody in the family alive today knows about it. We found out about it trough a file send to us passed week. In which Its stated he “fought for the Waffen SS from may 44 till 9 may 45” the place Stublau is Also mentioned, we hope to find more details in the persecution files (CABR)
@@HistoryHustle he had a alcohol problem so Its possible he had a trauma about his experiences there.
I can understand. Thanks for sharing this.
Man! Your videos are fantastic!
Many thanks 👍
Love the Dutch ... all I've known are as good as the best people in the world.
Not all I'd say, but thanks.
Hé. "If it ain,t Dutch, it ain,t much" thanks but we are only human and make a lot of stupid mistakes in a nice way?
@@HistoryHustleHaha yes. Those who are Dutch in Nationality but Muslim in religion..
Great video
Thanks!
Great stuff I have been to Limburg
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All respect to the Netherlands during the second world war.❤️🇨🇦
Thanks for your reply.
Still a very sensitive topic here in the Netherlands. As a result, the commission that wrote the official history of the Netherlands during WW2, kept most of the details out of it.
Thanks to German records, we now know that at one stage 21.000 Dutchmen recieved pay through the SS Paymaster General. Next step is that historians acknowledge that the Wiking division was reorganized and fought in the battle of Arnhem.
I know from a man who served with the SS. Official history is that they reorganized in Poland, and were never to be heard of again in official orders of Battle. Dutch official history does recognise that the majority of SS Wiking members were in Rotterdam at the end of the war.
Having tough battle hardened SS units beating crack British and Polish paratroopers is also a far more likely scenario than the official history. This states that crack paratroopers were beaten by a rag-tag army of AA gunners, river police, cooks and medics. Imho this is an insult to the heroes that dropped near Arnhem.
Btw: I am not a Nazi, nor a fascist. I think it's important to learn from history, which will not happen if you lie about it.
Think you're gravely misinformed. Wiking wasn't at Arnhem. Dutch SS-volunteers were, but these served in Landstorm Nederland. Some of its officers were Dutch Eastern Front veterans who might have served in Wiking ór the Dutch Volunteer Legion. Apart of that, the Wiking Division itself wasn't there.
@@HistoryHustle I did some additional digging, and you are right, no Wiking at Arnhem.
However, I am still convinced that there were other Dutch SS units than Landstorm at Arnhem, definitely SS and definitely units with East-front experience.
my grandpa was a part of that division, fun to learn about it 🙃
Thanks for sharing. Ever spoken to him about his experiences?
My friend grandad was in the division fought in the French foreign legion in Indochina fought all the way till he died in Cyprus
Interesting to read, thanks for sharing.
I have a Question did the Foreign Volunteers of the SS Wiking did wear SS Sleeve Patches for Example the Flemish one?
Not sure!
I have an illustrated book on this division! Really nice! Well put together plenty of pictures of the commanders, troops and their equipment! Great video!
Thanks 👍
Whats the book name?
Their interest in the northern peoples is explained by the belief that the Aryans came from Karelia (east of Finland). They did cultural research there just before the war. It has been made into a book by Himmler's (SS-leader) kantele player. In English?
Karelia also has its roots in Finnish mythology. Called the Kalevala.
Thanks for sharing this.
"Are you crying? There's no crying in Barbarossa" ~ 06:35
It happened...
My grandfather's brother served in westland. He was told he would get a police education in germany by a recruiter and sent to munich where he was trained en eventually placed in the waffen-ss. he served untill Uman where he was wounded and sent to austria to recover and then back to the Netherlands to work as a police instructor at the schalkhaar police school. he was awarded the iron cross, black wounded badge and the infrantry assault badge. in early 44 he was recruited by the SD and later fought in a penal battalion till the end of the war. The americans released him and sent him back home and in 1946 he was arrested in the hague, the netherlands and served long sentences till 63 for treason and other crimes.
Thanks for your reply. Did you ever meet him and speak about his experiences? How did he reflect on the war after it?
@@HistoryHustle It was kept secret, not even their sons and daughters knew, I found out accidentally by looking in old news papers from 1945/46, there were multiple articles describing him and that he was wanted. I have known him but he passed in 2002 before i found out. His son told me his dad mentioning that he went bald because he wore a helmet during the war, just not that it was a german helmet. My grandfather served in the Landstorm division near Arnhem, transfering from the jeugdstorm to the SS when he turned 17 in 1944, he eventually surrendered to the Americans aswell, spending a year in a pow camp, He never spoke about the war, just that he hated it and that he worked at a farm in germany, everything i know comes from files from the national archives in the hague and germany.
Very interesting. Thank you for taking the time to write this down!
to point out that Dutch Waffen-SS Volunteers (like French Waffen volunteers) had an employment contract, with salary,
they benefited between 1946 and 2021 from their rights accumulated at retirement between 1940 and 1945! with the complicity of their administration ...
Not sure what you're trying to point out.
Viking was mentioned in a book I just read Sniper On The Eastern Front. Pretty sure he said they basically got wiped out. Guess I’ll see how it goes with this video/
8 thousand die at Budapest and how many for the Ardennes? Some of these guys are Pretty lucky to have survived that outfit.
Indeed. I appreciate you take the time to watch and comment. Great!
For the Ardennes I didn't have exact numbers, sorry!
@@HistoryHustle I appreciate you taking the time to reply to viewers. I feel like learning about word war 2 never ends. I’ve been watching and reading about it since I was a little kid, and I still learn totally new things. It’s crazy.
Thanks for the Videos, I look forward to continued content.
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The swiss and the swedish dudes be like : Anyone can speak swiss/swedish??
Guess i'm alone here
The Nazi believe everybody are Germanic no matter what countries they from
@@coreylevine3856 except the swiss...
@@reikomi Swiss mostly speak German.
@@fm1668 kinda german, but that wasn't my point
H. Didn't like the swiss
I see...
As an indonesian, i hear that a lot of these man are being deployed in indonesia during the independence war to "redeem" themself, is that true? Like the video though, very comprehensive and detailed, kudos to you for that.
Yes it is. A lot of Dutch Waffen SS veterans fought in Indonesia during the "Politionele Acties" not only to redeem themselves but also because they had actual combat experience, the rest of the Dutch Army were amateurs hiding behind their backs and shitting their pants while fighting in the jungle
During the trip to Indonesia per schip these veterans were mocked and beaten. "Just you wait" a lot of them warned.
Probably true...many former Wehrmacht and SS men couldn't return home for many reasons including the fact that their homes were now in Communist control. ....its a little known fact that many of the French forces who fought in what became known as Vietnam were ex Wehrmacht. ....
@Brian: more on that in the future.
@@lebronjames6267 At Dien Bien Phu most foreign Legion soldriers were former German Fallschirmjäger.
@@dickvansteijn4115 interesting. .. i had read that many were former SS both German and volksdeutsch who were unwelcome in their former home countries and were eagerly recruited by the French Foreign legion to try to subdue the restive Viet Cong of Ho Chi Minh......
Hello Stefan... I must say, ur channel is awesome... Would love if u could do a video on Polish, Dutch and other country volunteers who fought in the British army... And also a vud on Canada in Normandy
Thanks
Love from India🇮🇳
Thanks for your reply. Hope to cover these formations in the future!
interesting fact - a member of the wiking division went onto become a state minister in some west german state and became a notable pacifist
Interesting. Didn't know this.
Great work ! I have the same story, but with the "Mediterranean Europeans" who lived in the "european empire of africa"' Europeans who left Spain, Italy, France, for for economic and religious reasons,between 1800 and 1920, and who joined the American forces to defeat the "viking", in 1944, "mano a mano" "en corps à corps" , and win!
in their generosity as a victorious , they left the land rights to the vanquished! who became "viking" multimillionaire landowners between 1950 and 2021 ...
Not sure what you're trying to point out.
Welk boek zou je aan kunnen raden? veldgrauw of Wiking?
Veldgrauw.
Ik ben benieuwd :)
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Interesting and well presented.
Thank you, David.
I learned the other day there were dutch SS in Auschwitz. None of them were tried for war-crimes... May be worth lookin into.
Source?
@@HistoryHustle Ik zag het van de week als een item in EenVandaag.
Oké. Zal een handjevol zijn geweest. Vermoed dat dit OT'ers (of NSKK'ers) waren. Overigens zijn veel collaborateurs wel gestraft. Daarover meer in de toekomst.
In January 45 the Red Army reached
The KZ Auschwitz. a Shirt time after, Reporters from russian Newspapers
Like "Prawda" , Iswetia, and from the Red Army interviewed the remained priseners.
Ist IT possible to get the articles from anyone?
Sir. Your history lessons are So ..Well researched. Polish descent give are take 10% 1650years of personal history. Your Excellent presentations of Not only Polish/Central European history with a Realty...Rarely seen in a historian let alone a teacher. Your pupils are Truly Privileged. Thank you for presenting the TRUTH. Take care in this 100yr. Cycle
Many thanks 👍
Thank you very much for this clear instructive lesson. And at last , a beware against lucifer fascination. ...
Thanks for your reply.
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Voor het vaderland
Nah, niet echt. Tenzij je Duitsland bedoeld.
Fascinating video!
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I look forward to a video of Free Dutch Forces that fought for the allies.
Interestingly how many served for the allies, as we know 55000 Dutch served for the Axis/ Nazis.
Sure something to cover in the future. First, soon more about the Dutch Volunteer Legion.
Prinses Irene Brigade approx 3000 volunteers, trained in England.
@@dickvansteijn4115 They were real heroes.
Thank you for your comment.
Where can I get large wall map like the yours ?
School maps. Can't tell where you can get them from, apart from schools.
Interviews with SS Veterans | Das Reich Panzer Division
ruclips.net/video/oJ6iog8XYBk/видео.html
Thanks for sharing.