SS-Panzer Division Viking

The 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking or SS Division Wiking was an infantry and later an armoured division among the thirty-eight Waffen-SS divisions of Nazi Germany active 1941-1945. It was rec... Read allThe 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking or SS Division Wiking was an infantry and later an armoured division among the thirty-eight Waffen-SS divisions of Nazi Germany active 1941-1945. It was recruited from foreign volunteers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the Netherlan... Read allThe 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking or SS Division Wiking was an infantry and later an armoured division among the thirty-eight Waffen-SS divisions of Nazi Germany active 1941-1945. It was recruited from foreign volunteers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the Netherlands and Belgium under the command of German officers. Historian Eleonore Lappin, from the I... Read all