SS-Freiwilligen-Verband Niederlande

Details: Published: 28 December 2010 28 December 2010; Last Updated: 07 April 2012 07 April 2012

The SS-Freiwilligen-Verband Niederlande was formed July 1941 when SS-Freiwilligen-Standarte Nordwest was split in two.
It was redesignated SS-Freiwilligen Legion Niederlande 24 September 1941.

Volunteers for SS-Freiwilligen-Verband Niederlande parading in July 1941
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(Courtesy of Die Deutsche Wochenschau/Ivan)

Sources used

Kurt Mehner - Die Waffen-SS und Polizei 1939-1945

Reference material on this unit

Perry Pierik - From Leningrad to Berlin: Dutch Volunteers in the German Waffen-SS