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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;panzerman, post: 3977682, member: 77704&quot;]There was a sort of &quot;Foreign Legion&quot; in the service of the Reich&nbsp; There where Indians/ Turkomans/ Chetniks/ Cossaks/ Finns/ Estonians/ Iraqis/ Bosnian Muslims/ Walloons/ Flemish/ Dutch/ British in Heer and Waffen SS Divisions.</p><p>1/ Spanish Volunteers</p><p>2/ Finnish&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;</p><p>3/ African&nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;</p><p>4/ French&nbsp; (33rd SS Charlemagne Div.)</p><p>5/ Turkomans (former Soviet POWS from Turkmenistan)</p><p>6/ Iraqi&nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; (wanted to free Iraq from British rule)</p><p>7/ Indian Tiger Brigade SS Volunteers (inspected by Rommel)</p><p>8/ Estonian SS Division (Ripulii being awarded Knights Cross by General Felix Steiner)</p><p>9/ Cossack &quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; (thousands of Cossacks served in Heer/ Waffen SS)</p><p>10/ Bosnian Muslims from Hanschar Mountain Div.)</p><p>There where over 1 million of these ethnically diverse volunteers in service. Most joined to fight the Soviets to liberate their former Countries from Stalin&#039;s tyranny. Military historians rated the Estonians/ [ATTACH=full]1047009[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1047010[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1047011[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1047012[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1047013[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1047014[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1047015[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1047016[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1047018[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1047020[/ATTACH] Finns/ Walloons/ Latvians as best combat soldiers of WW2.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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