German Armed Forces - SS Foreign Volunteers and Conscripts
An estimated 325,000 to 500,000 non-ethnic German volunteers and conscripts served in the Waffen-SS:

Armenia: 2000 to 4000

Belgium Flemish:  20,000 to 22,000 

Belgium Walloons: 20,000 to 22,000 ​

Bulgaria: 700

Croatia (includes Bosnian Muslims): 20,000

Czechoslovakia (the exact number of ethnic Slovaks and Czechs can not be determined)

Denmark: 8,000 to 12,000

Estonia: 70,000

Finland: 2,500

France: 18,000 to 22,000

Georgia:[16] 3,000 to 10,000

Hungary: 40,000

India: 2,500

Italy: 18,000

Latvia: 150,000

Lithuania: 50,000 (officially Non-Waffen-SS)

Luxembourg: 3,000+

Netherlands: 45,000 to 55,000

North Caucasus: 1,000 to 2,000

Norway: 6,000 to 15,000

Poland: 100 to 300 (numbers of ethnic Poles can not be verified because of destroyed records)

Romania: 55,000

Russian (& Belarusian): 25,000

Serbia: 10,000

Slovenia: 6,000

Spain: 3,000

Sweden: 500 to 1500

Ukraine: 20,000

The Germanic SS

The Germanic SS (Germanische SS) was the collective name given to Nordic SS groups which arose in occupied Europe between 1939 and 1945. The units were modeled on the Allgemeine SS in Nazi Germany. Such groups existed in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Belgium, whose populations the Nazi ideogues considered to be especially "racially suitable". They typically served as local security police augmenting German units of the Gestapo, Sicherheitsdienst (SD), and other departments of the German Reich Main Security Office.

The following countries raised active Germanic SS detachments:
  • Netherlands: Germaansche SS in Nederland (before 1942: Nederlandsche SS)
  • Flanders (Belgium): Germaansche SS in Vlaanderen (before 1942: Algemeene SS Vlaanderen) was one of the first collaborationist formations to become part of the Germanische SS and, in 1943, became associated with the radical DeVlag political party. Unofficially, Himmler wanted to use the organization to penetrate occupied Belgium, which was under the control of the Wehrmacht military government, not the party or the SS. The SS-Vlaanderen was also used to staff the anti-Jewish units of the German security services with auxiliary staff.
  • Norway: Germanske SS Norge (before 1942: Norges SS) was a paramilitary organization established in Norway in July 1942. GSSN was at the same time a Norwegian branch of Germanic-SS, and a sub organization of Quisling's Nasjonal Samling. Leader of the organization was Jonas Lie, and second-in-command was Sverre Riisnæs. The number of members reached a maximum of about 1,300 in 1944. A large part of the members were recruited from the police, and about fifty percent served in the occupied Soviet Union.
  • Denmark: Schalburg Corps, the Danish Germanic-SS, was formed on February 2, 1943. On March 30 the corps was renamed Schalburg Corps. During the summer of 1943, Søren Kam was commander of the Schalburg Corps.
An underground Nazi organization also existed in Switzerland, known as the Germanische SS Schweiz. It had very few members and was considered merely a splinter Nazi group by Swiss authorities.


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