5TH SS DIVISION WIKING AT WAR 1941-1945: Images of War Series

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Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs, this is the fifth book in the Waffen-SS Images of War Series and tells the dramatic story of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking at war. The men of the division were recruited from foreign volunteers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the Netherlands, and Belgium under the command of German officers. Not all were collaborators - the choice they were all too often presented with was join up or be locked up - or worse. During the course of the war, the division served on the Eastern Front in 1941, and eventually surrendered in May 1945 to the American forces in Austria.