ACCIDENTAL NAZIS? THE IRISHMEN WHO JOINED THE WAFFEN-SS

By John Mulqueen In May 1945 many in German uniforms who fought to the end in Berlin were not German: Estonian, French, Latvian and Scandinavian Waffen-SS soldiers tried in vain to halt the Red Army juggernaut. The smallest section in the military wing of the SS, the British Free Corps, also played a role. There ... Read more

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