Were there any multi-national foreign volunteer units in Europe?

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Re: Were there any multi-national foreign volunteer units in Europe?

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Post by Art » 06 Sep 2020, 11:53

Hyus wrote:
26 Aug 2020, 17:41
John Hilly mentioned the unit had mixed nationals between 1941-1942. What happened after 1942? Was the unit disbanded or segregated?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_V ... _Waffen-SS
The Finnish battalion was replaced with Estonian SS Battalion in 1943:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Waff ... _Estonian)

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Re: Were there any multi-national foreign volunteer units in Europe?

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Post by FlyingStukas » 07 Sep 2020, 12:15

SS Handschar had Bosnian Muslims, Catholic Croats, Albanian Muslims and local ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) with Reichsdeutsche being in the officer roles.


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