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Foreign Waffen-SS formations and foreign units under SS control[edit]

Designation Formation Personnel Peak size Notes
1st SS Cossack Cavalry Division December 1944
2nd Cossack Cavalry Division Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date
5th SS Panzer Division Wiking May 1940[1] Dutch, Danes, Flemish, Germans, Norwegians, Finns and Walloons[1] 90% German personnel[1]
5th Volunteer Assault Brigade "Wallonia" June 1943[2] 4,000[2] Under the Wiking Division[2]
7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen March 1942[3] 92% Ethnic Germans[4] (Volksdeutsche) from the Serbian Banat, Croatia, Hungary and Romania.[5] with some Reich German cadres[6] 20,624[6] Germanic formation[7]
11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date
13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) March 1943 Bosnian Muslims with some Catholic Croats, and German cadres[8] 26,000[8] First non-Germanic Waffen-SS division[9]
14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) April 1943[10] Ukrainians and Volksdeutsche[10] 15,000[1] Known as SS-Freiwilligen Division until 1944.[10]
15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian) October 1943[11] Latvian[11] 20,291[11] Formed from the Latvian Legion and the Latvian SS Volunteer Brigade.[11]
XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps February 1945
19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian) January 1944[11] Latvian[11] 10,592[11] Formed from the 2nd SS Infantry Brigade[11]
20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) January 1944[11] Estonians 13,423[11] Formed from the 3rd Estnische SS-Freiwilligen Brigade and the Estonian Legion[12]
21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) May 1944[3] Albanian Muslims (mostly Kosovo Gheg Albanians)[13][14] with German, Austrian and Volksdeutsche cadres 7,000[13] Formed from volunteers supplied by the League of Prizren and the Albanian collaborationist government, as well as Croatian Ustaša militias and SS "Handschar" division Albanian personnel.[15]
22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Maria Theresia May 1944[16] Volksdeutsche from Hungary[16] 8,000[17]
23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland July 1941 Dutch[18] 6,000[18] Formed from the 4th Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Brigade Nederland and SS Legion Nederland.

Received number 23 after SS Kama was disbanded[7]

4th SS Panzer Grenadier Brigade Netherlands Oct 1943 Formed from Volunteer Legion Netherlands
23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama (2nd Croatian) June 1944 Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Volksdeutsche[7] 3,793[17] Disbanded in October 1944 with personal transferred to SS Handschar [17]
24th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Karstjäger Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date
25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Hunyadi (1st Hungarian) Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date
26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Hungarian) Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date Volksdeutsche
27th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Langemarck (1st Flemish) May 1943[19] Flemish with a few Finnish volunteers[19] 2,022[20] Formed a a brigade[19]
SS Assault Brigade Wallonien June 1943[21] Belgian Walloons Formed in 1941 as Walloon Legion transferred to the Waffen-SS in 1943[21]
29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS RONA (1st Russian) Aug 1944 Formed from soldiers of the Kaminski Brigade
29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Italian) Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date Received number 29 after SS RONA was disbanded[7]
30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Russian No. 2) Aug 1944 Formed from Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling personnel, disbanded in March 1945
30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Belarusian) Aug 1944[22] Belarusian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian[22] 10,000[23] Formed from Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling personnel[24]
33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne Feb 1945[25] French[26] 7,340[27] Formed from LVF, Brigade Frankreich and other French military collaborators.[27]
33rd Waffen Cavalry Division of the SS (3rd Hungarian) Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date
34th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Landstorm Nederland Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date
35th SS-Police Grenadier Division Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date
36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS February 1945[28] 4,000[28] Formerly Dirlewanger Brigade[28]
37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow February 1945[29] Hungarians[29] Attached to the 6th SS Panzer Army[29]
Azerbaijani SS volunteer formations Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date
Schalburg Corps Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date
Finnish volunteers in the Waffen-SS Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date
Serbian Volunteer Corps Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date
SS Ski Jäger Battalion "Norwegen" Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date
SS Volunteer Sturmbrigade France July 1943[30] French 1,688[31] In September 1944 the Sturmbrigade brigade was amalgamated with the Legion of French Volunteers (L.V.F), which became the core of the SS Division Charlemagne.[32]
Tatar Legions Error in Template:Date table sorting: ',' is an invalid date
Waffen Grenadier Regiment of the SS (1st Bulgarian) September 1944[33] Bulgarians[33] 600[33] Formed after Bulgaria left the Axis[33]
SS Polizei - Selbstschutz - Regiment Sandschak July 1944[34] Albanian Muslims (from Kosovo and Sanjak)[34] 6,000[34]
SS-Freiwilligen Legion Flandern 1941 Flemish 875[35] Formed in May 1940 transferred to the Waffen-SS in 1941[36]
Breton SS Armed Formation Dec 1943 Bretons 80[37]
Indian Volunteer Legion of the Waffen-SS August 1944 Formed from the Indian Legion established in 1941

References

  1. ^ a b c d Bishop 2012, p. 116.
  2. ^ a b c Bishop 2012, p. 175.
  3. ^ a b Zakić 2017, p. 223.
  4. ^ Gilbert 2019, pp. 242–243.
  5. ^ McNab 2009, p. 220.
  6. ^ a b Zakić 2017, p. 225.
  7. ^ a b c d Hetmanchuk 2019, pp. 38–42.
  8. ^ a b Tomasevich 2001, pp. 498–499.
  9. ^ Tomasevich 2001, pp. 496.
  10. ^ a b c Bishop 2012, p. 134.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Bishop 2012, p. 136.
  12. ^ Bishop 2012, p. 142.
  13. ^ a b Tomasevich 2002, p. 154.
  14. ^ Manes 2023, p. 90.
  15. ^ Bougarel et al. 2017, p. 256.
  16. ^ a b Bishop 2012, p. 145.
  17. ^ a b c Bishop 2012, p. 146.
  18. ^ a b Bishop 2012, p. 148.
  19. ^ a b c Afiero & Bujeiro 2021, p. 44.
  20. ^ Afiero & Bujeiro 2021, p. 45.
  21. ^ a b Odegard & Deeter 1968, p. 12.
  22. ^ a b Rein 2011, p. 370.
  23. ^ Savin, Kyryl (23 March 2021). [1]. Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  24. ^ Tessin & Kannapin 2000, p. 105.
  25. ^ Littlejohn 1987, p. 172.
  26. ^ Zabecki 2015, p. 709.
  27. ^ a b Littlejohn 1987, p. 170.
  28. ^ a b c Mitcham 2007, p. 102.
  29. ^ a b c Odegard & Deeter 1968, p. 61.
  30. ^ Forbes 2010, p. 55.
  31. ^ Forbes 2010, p. 62.
  32. ^ Littlejohn 1987, pp. 161, 170, 172.
  33. ^ a b c d Bishop 2012, p. 182.
  34. ^ a b c Manes 2023, p. 87.
  35. ^ Stein 1984, p. 154.
  36. ^ Odegard & Deeter 1968, p. 11.
  37. ^ Broderick 2005, pp. 5–7.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Bishop, C. (2012). SS Hitler's Foreign Divisions: Foreign Volunteers in the Waffen-SS 1940–45. Military Classics. Amber Books Limited. ISBN 978-1-908273-99-4.
  • Broderick, George (2005). "The Breton Movement and the German Occupation 1940–44. Alan Heusaff and Bezen Perrot: A Case Study" (PDF). Retrieved 8 May 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Gilbert, Adrian (2019). Waffen-SS: Hitler’s Army at War. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-30682-465-4.
  • Hetmanchuk, M. P. (2019). "Foreign military formations of the SS – European Army of the Third Reich (1939–1945)". Гілея: науковий вісник (141(1)). Українська академія наук, Національний педагогічний університет імені М. П. Драгоманова: 38–42. ISSN 2076-1554.
  • Littlejohn, David (1987). Foreign Legions of the Third Reich Vol. 1 Norway, Denmark, France. Bender Publishing. ISBN 978-0-912138-17-6.
  • McNab, Chris (2009). The SS: 1923–1945. Amber Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-906626-49-5.
  • Mitcham, S.W. (2007). German Order of Battle: Panzer, Panzer Grenadier, and Waffen SS divisions in World War II. German Order of Battle. Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3438-7.
  • Odegard, W.W.; Deeter, R.E. (1968). Foreign Volunteers of Hitler's Germany. DO Enterprises.
  • Rein, Leonid (2011). The Kings and the Pawns: Collaboration in Byelorussia During World War II. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0857450432.
  • Tessin, Georg; Kannapin, Norbert (2000). Waffen-SS und Ordnungspolizei im Kriegseinsatz 1939-1945 (in German). Osnabrück: Biblio Verlag. doi:10.1080/13518040701378360. S2CID 144741225.
  • Zabecki, D.T. (2015). World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia. Military History of the United States. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-135-81242-3.
  • Zakić, M. (2017). Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-17184-8.
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