The waffen ss had many non German divisions

From a nationality and culture perspective. The S.S and Wehrmacht were probably one of the more Diverse Fighting Forces ever put under Arms in the modern era. Outside of the foreign levies of Imperial Powers.

With Volunteers and Conscripts from the Finns, Russians, Bulgarians, Arabs, Georgians, Armenians, Ukrainians, Spanish, Ireland, Americans, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, French, Belgians, Indians, Norwegians, Dutch, Swedish, Italians, Hungarians, Romanians, Serbians, Albanians, Icelandics etc. All either served in various culturally similar Units or had their own ethnic units.

In the case of the particular large amount of Slavic/Eastern European Volunteer/conscript units. They were motivated by hatred of Russia/The Soviet Union, and or Communists in general. That or fear of the Germans in the case of some conscript units.

The conquests of Imperial Russia. Imperial crackdowns, The Russian Civil War, and subsequent brutality of the Soviet Regime. Not to mention several border wars fought in between WW1 and outbreak of WW2. Generated a lot, and I mean A Lot. Of Anti-Communist, Anti-Soviet, or just Anti-Russian sentiment in Eastern Europe.

If I had to liken it to something. It’d be a relationship much like the Irish and British. Lots, and I mean lots of dislike and hatred built over decades or in some cases centuries.

The waffen ss had many non German divisions

From a nationality and culture perspective. The S.S and Wehrmacht were probably one of the more Diverse Fighting Forces ever put under Arms in the modern era. Outside of the foreign levies of Imperial Powers.

With Volunteers and Conscripts from the Finns, Russians, Bulgarians, Arabs, Georgians, Armenians, Ukrainians, Spanish, Ireland, Americans, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, French, Belgians, Indians, Norwegians, Dutch, Swedish, Italians, Hungarians, Romanians, Serbians, Albanians, Icelandics etc. All either served in various culturally similar Units or had their own ethnic units.

In the case of the particular large amount of Slavic/Eastern European Volunteer/conscript units. They were motivated by hatred of Russia/The Soviet Union, and or Communists in general.

The conquests of Imperial Russia. Imperial crackdowns, The Russian Civil War, and subsequent brutality of the Soviet Regime. Not to mention several border wars fought in between WW1 and outbreak of WW2. Generated a lot, and I mean A Lot. Of Anti-Communist, Anti-Soviet, or just Anti-Russian sentiment in Eastern Europe.

If I had to liken it to something. It’d be a relationship much like the Irish and British. Lots, and I mean lots of dislike and hatred built over decades or in some cases centuries.

The waffen ss had many non German divisions

From a nationality and culture perspective. The S.S and Wehrmacht were probably one of the more Diverse Fighting Forces ever put under Arms in the modern era. Outside of the foreign levies of Imperial Powers.

With Volunteers and Conscripts from the Finns, Russians, Bulgarians, Ukrainians, Spanish, Ireland, Americans, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, French, Belgians, Indians, Norwegians, Dutch, Swedish, Italians, Hungarians, Romanians, Serbians, Albanians, Icelandics etc. All either served in various culturally similar Units or had their own ethnic units.

In the case of the particular large amount of Slavic/Eastern European Volunteer/conscript units. They were motivated by hatred of Russia/The Soviet Union, and or Communists in general.

The conquests of Imperial Russia. Imperial crackdowns, The Russian Civil War, and subsequent brutality of the Soviet Regime. Not to mention several border wars fought in between WW1 and outbreak of WW2. Generated a lot, and I mean A Lot. Of Anti-Communist, Anti-Soviet, or just Anti-Russian sentiment in Eastern Europe.

If I had to liken it to something. It’d be a relationship much like the Irish and British. Lots, and I mean lots of dislike and hatred built over decades or in some cases centuries.

The waffen ss had many non German divisions

From a nationality and culture perspective. The S.S was probably one of the more Diverse Fighting Forces ever put under Arms in the modern era. Outside of the foreign levies of Imperial Powers.

Finns, Russians, Bulgarians, Ukrainians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, French, Indians, Norwegians, Dutch, Swedish, Italians, Hungarians, Romanians, Serbians, Albanians, Icelandics etc. All either served in various culturally similar Units or had their own ethnic units.

In the case of the particular large amount of Slavic/Eastern European Volunteer/conscript units. They were motivated by hatred of Russia/The Soviet Union, and or Communists in general.

The conquests of Imperial Russia. Imperial crackdowns, The Russian Civil War, and subsequent brutality of the Soviet Regime. Not to mention several border wars fought in between WW1 and outbreak of WW2. Generated a lot, and I mean A Lot. Of Anti-Communist, Anti-Soviet, or just Anti-Russian sentiment in Eastern Europe.

If I had to liken it to something. It’d be a relationship much like the Irish and British. Lots, and I mean lots of dislike and hatred built over decades or in some cases centuries.