How is that ironic if all ethnicities recruited into SS were European? There were non Europeans fighting for Germans as well, but all "ethnic" units from this video are from Europe.
@@marduk6836 because 1. The Nazi racial ideology wasn’t based on how European you were, as non-European ethnicities were sometimes placed above European ones 2. Their presence was mostly restricted to Europe, meaning that they couldn’t really have a lot of outside forces, even tho such do in fact exist (like the free India legion)
@Kriegerin Allahs “Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin” Muamar Al-Gadaffi This includes all the symbols of the nation's past of course.
Not really most of the men in the SS have the same blood group, Germans, danes, Dutch, Norwegians, Belgians, swedes are all one family, and Ukrainians are mostly Russians
@@TEUTONIC__ORDER699 What are you talking about, young man? Ukrainians joined the Galicia Division SPECIFICALLY TO FIGHT THE RUZZKIES. Before the Second World War, the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) was active in Ukraine, and they wanted to achieve independence from the Soviets, but the war broke out. Then, in the first years of the war, the OUN split into two camps: OUN (M) and OUN (B). The former were the main people who were in the OUN and the leader Melnyk (that's why there is an "m" next to the name). The second "camp" was led by Bandera, who wanted complete independence from everyone, but at that time it was impossible to achieve. Melnyk and his supporters wanted the Third Reich to give Ukraine autonomy within its borders (interesting fact: the Third Reich was the first country in the world to recognize the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people, and in general, the Germans treated Ukrainians well, as loyally as Ukrainians treated them, because even then Ukrainians knew perfectly well what "ruZZians" were) (we can also recall how the Soviets raped 2 million German women aged 8 to 80 during the occupation of Berlin). That is why no katsaps fought in the SS Galicia. NO NEED TO SPREAD LIES.
I didn’t even know that there was one that was called Skanderbeg, pretty cool to learn something new, thanks for the video. And the Charlemagne one gives some proper Frankish vibes, I like it.
Scanderbeg SS Division, were all ethnic Albanians, but they deserted when they parted to fight the communist in Serbia.. very disappointed by Albanians because Serbia was one of the three greatest enemy of Albania since 6th century
Ukrainian Insurgent Army & Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Massacres in Volhynia (1943) Leader: Stepan Bandera. National hero of modern Ukraine
There is a big nazi movement in ukraine, and they even have quiet a lot political power. And this is NOT russian propaganda, despite russian propaganda use it.
The last division to defend Hitler’s bunker were the Charlemagne division btw. It’s interesting bc some people call French « surrenderer » for the defeat of 1940 but the French were also the last ones to fight in Berlin against the Soviet.
Honestly I even dig the architecture, the monstrous faux-Roman looking stuff, and the music as well, both the military music and the orchestral music that was popular, like Wagner and Bruckner.
@@aurorasdawn4681 Even though modern gear is actually superior in every way, I think military has lost some of its appeal when all the "fanciness" gets skimmed away. Not that military losing its appeal is a bad thing, but one can't deny that old military uniforms (WWII and older) look amazing and add to the romanticism. It's not crazy to assume that thousands of young Germans joined the SS not because of their staunch nazism but because they wanted to see themselves in those magnificent uniforms.
@@aurorasdawn4681 how did the history of Germany end in 1990 what. That’s like saying because the United States didn’t exist until they got independence in 1783, there isn’t any American history before that
If I was a natzee recruiter, I would not trust Russians (fear of spies) but neither would I trust the Brits. Who knows if maybe some foreign divisions were filled with spies sent by allies governments?
@@akmalvargas3402 they litteraly never saw combat the brits free korps were disbanded because of insufficient manpower to make even a battalion they only split up with other existing units/divisions. I read a book about it
The Waffen-SS, the armed branch of the Schutzstaffel (SS), was a paramilitary organization that existed during Nazi Germany. It played a significant role in World War II. Here is a list of some of the Waffen-SS divisions: 1. 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 2. 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich 3. 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf 4. 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division 5. 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking 6. 6th SS Mountain Division Nord 7. 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen 8. 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer 9. 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen 10. 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg 11. 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland 12. 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend 13. 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) 14. 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) 15. 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian) 16. 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS 17. 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen 18. 18th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Horst Wessel 19. 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian) 20. 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) 21. 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) 22. 22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Maria Theresia 23. 23rd SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nederland 24. 24th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Karstjäger 25. 25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Hunyadi (1st Hungarian) 26. 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Hungarian) 27. 27th SS Volunteer Division Langemarck 28. 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Wallonien 29. 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS RONA (1st Russian) 30. 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian) 31. 31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division 32. 32nd SS Volunteer Grenadier Division 30 Januar 33. 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) 34. 34th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Landstorm Nederland 35. 35th SS and Police Grenadier Division 36. 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS 37. 37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow 38. 38th SS Division Grenadier (Netherlands No. 1) 39. 39th SS Division Grenadier (Lithuanian No. 1) 40. 40th SS Division Grenadier (Estnische No. 1) Please note that the Waffen-SS divisions were involved in various campaigns during World War II, and their actions were often associated with war crimes and atrocities. This list includes all the divisions formed during the war, and their names and composition could change over time.
Curious note at the end, i wonder if it'll mention the same when it's about the soviet army, or Israel's army, and all the atrocities they've commited. It's almost as if it's only considered an atrocity when certain people are the victims.
having written a series of books on Waffen SS (in Greek) during 2007, I will check my archives about the numbers of foreign personnel in the Waffen SS divisions and post accy
Дирлевангер СС состояла из немецких преступников и дезертиров, а также из завербованных русских и украинцев. Трудно ожидать от такой компании иного поведения
Ancedote: The SS Charlemagne division did not wore the eagle and fleur-de-lis emblem, their emblem was the French flag. The "heraldic" of Charlemagne was added after the war.
Symbols in the upper left show what kind of division The picks with the sword- Mountain Troops Gears- Mechanized/Panzer Grenadier Helmet- Infantry/Grenadier/Volunteer Horse- Cavalry Tank- Panzer Division
@@Occitan-Descoteaux Not to mention both the SS and Wermacht French brigades (which later formed the 33th) were already in service since 1941. Story could be true though, who knows?
Would you please be so kind as to explain the graphic imagery i.e. the small shield-like shape (yellow, black etc.) just above the national flags and also the marks other than the steel helmet? 'Horse', I can tell is for cavalry division.... Thank you.
@@2rr0s well this was an elite unit of men of different faiths, nations that were taught to fight together for the greater good. The SS was not a big conscript army like the austro Hungarian one. Not even close. You should watch the documentary by Leon Degrelle, history of the Waffen ss interesting stuff and it's on RU-vid
Pferdekopf Kavallerie. Das dritte Symbol ist wohl ein Schwert mit zwei Spitzhacken oder Eispickeln. Vermutlich Gebirgsdivisionen. "Karstjäger" deutet darauf hin.
not sure exactly which divisions or units they volunteered in but there were plenty of Iraqi, Iranian, Egyptian, Syrian, Libyan, Tunisian, Algerian etc. volunteers, not to mention the Japanese SS units associated with the order of the green dragon via Karl haushofen and the man with the green gloves which were basically Samurai.
There was also the Saint Wenceslaus company, that was formed in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia at the end of the war, but it never saw combat, because they couldn't get enough people to join.
You know what would be more interesting, a list with fictional Waffen-SS Divisions like such as the 51st SS Grenadier Division "Krieger" (Zootopian Prey Animals), 52nd SS Panzer Division "Jager" (Zootopian Predator Animals), 666th SS Waldlebewesen Brigade (South Park Woodland Critters), SS Wammawinks Herde Infantry Division "Wammawink's Heard" (Centaurworld), 10.000th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Fear" (Monsters Inc.).
Mis tres símbolos favoritos, estéticamente hablando, del primer lugar al tercero, son: RONA, Totenkopf y Skanderberg. ¡Vaya que sí se mandaban con el diseño de las insignias de las divisiones de las Waffen-SS!
No dije que lo inventaron, sólo que eran verdaderos artistas al momento de diseñar esas insignias. Varias figuras de esas insignias ya las conocía antes de ver este video, como el águila bicéfala de Skanderberg y la cruz flechada húngara (originalmente la conocí como el símbolo de los magiares puros, pero después vi que es un símbolo cristiano húngaro muy antiguo).
The 22. SS-Freiwilligen-Kavallerie-Division was never given the honour title of 'Maria Theresa' it's a popular fallacy that's not supported by any primary documents. Also are your maximum manpower levers actual manpower or the authorised manpower levels?
What’s interesting is that number 3, Totenkopf patch is very similar to Estonia’s Kuperjanov battalion patch - black shield with white outline and skull and bones in the middle. Estonia’s patch is much older though, from the Independence War of Estonia in 1918.
@@radikalcreatesthese friekorps also fight in Estonia and Latvia until they do something bad there apparently, when Hitler rise to power many of the friekorps joined the SS
@@user-qj6fo8hy6tна церквях такой же значек, как у Вермахта на танках)) Может быть запретить религию? Или как символ существовавший до нацистов несколько сотен лет, стал нацистским , и был наделён " плохим" значением, что в свою очередь обрекало его носителей на клеймо - нацист, в будущем? Символы "Азова" и "Дас Райх" - разные.А человека характеризуют прежде всего действия и взгляды) допустим у меня на груди треугольник с перечеркнутым кругом по центру, а на шевроне - І+N.Я не придерживаюсь взглядов ни одной из идеологий, на все 💯, я атеист, также презираю любые злодеяния, буть то убийство человека, или издёвка над пленными русскими. Могу ли я щитаться нацистом? Простой вопрос
@@user-fj1tc6dq2c Ясно, понятно, здесь по твоей логике все правильно, но я твою логику изменить не смогу. По моей логике азовцы украли у дас райха, но не могу доказать тебе. Я, конечно, меняю тему потому, что типо слился да там, но главной новиной для меня стала то, что Зеленский продал Украину компании Black Rock
In the 5th ss wiking there were also Dutch and Belgians who fought in the regiment westland. Also should be noted that there were also Swedish and Finnish volunteers in these northern ss divisions
There was decorated Finnish battalion which was under regiment Nordland under 5ss wiking. My grandfathers friend served there and remember some stories from caucasus
Interresting fact: The first Cossack Korps numbering the 1st and 2nd SS Cosack divisions fought till Austria where they were given to the soviets to be executed
My great-grandfather served in the SS Kaminski Brigade, and was later on reassembled into the much bigger Russian Liberation Army. But the Russian Liberation Army was part of the Wehrmacht, not SS To other Russians reading this, Aleksandr Dugin interviewed Léon Degrelle, the founder of the Walloon Legion (Wallonien) in 1993, just months before Degrelle passed away at age 87. You can find it at his Элементы magazine, №6, the title is Последний фольксфюрер/The Last Volksführer
there were also 60000volksdeutsche from Romania in SS. mostly in 6,7 div. and also in later Wiking & Nordland divisions. If u are interested read P. Milata s book.
Impossible to find that out except for a few. Landstorm Nederland's symbol is a fascist symbol from the NSB. Langemark is similar to the Germanic pagan symbols.
38: the winged helmet of wotan/odin, the name refers to a famous german folk tale 37: ? 36: grenade is grenade, named after it's leader 35: ? 34: a variation of the "wolfsangel" rune, a symbol associated with a free spirit and a true warrior so basically the old germanic "sigma male" 33: named after the founder of the holy roman empire aka the 1st reich and what l assume is his personal coat of arms 32: the "tyr" rune associated with the northern warrior god of the same name 31: jägermeister division?? 30: ? 29: variation of the iron cross? 29: symbol of the italian fascist party 28: ? 27: a version (slavic l believe) of the triskelion/triskele. A pagan holy symbol of stability/unity, the cosmos, life, nature and all things appearing in threes as is the law of god/s. 26: ? 25: ? 24: ? 23: ? 23: what l assume is a stylized version of the "othala" rune depending on translation meaning home, family/tradition, wisdom or wealth 22: ? 21: the albanian eagle 20: sword and euro symbol? 19: jojo's glyph? 18: sword 17: named after a legendary german knight also known as "götz of the iron hand" who was known to fight in battle with a prosthetic metal arm after loosing his real hand to a point blank cannon blast. The picture should explain itself 16: ? 15: ? 14: ? 13: a sword probably an ottoman saber, since the division was exclusively composed of muslim converts from the balkans region 12: ye olde "sieg" (victory) or "sovilo" (sun) rune as in the SS insignia, plus the key symbol of the leibstandarte, signaling these boys as in their name, to be the proteges of the true elite 11: nordic swastika also known as the "sonnenrad" (sun wheel) 10: stylized F but the name relates to an infamous general and mercenary leader from the late middle ages, often being credited for perfecting the landsknecht style of warfare. Revolutionizing the holy roman empire's armies from just mounted knights and peasant hordes into ranks of modern trained and payed soldiers 9: ? 8: horse and sword for cavalry division. Also named after another legendary knight, this one being sorta like the german robin hood or william wallace known for leading a peasent revolution, there's also a famous german folk song about him 7: ? 6: ? 5: another nordic swastika 4: could be a wolfsangel standig sideways or a stylized "eiwhaz" rune which amongst other things stands for defense and safety what would be about fitting for it being a police unit 3: the favorite symbol of every pirate and 4chan edgelord, originating in polish and prussian cavalry units and was popularized in WWl by the infamous stormtrooper units and later the freikorps. Coming from such a grim background it would indeed live up to it's reputation, the 3rd being known as exterminators and the reapers of the holocaust supervising the einsatzgruppen and being in charge of concentration camps 2: wolfsangel again 1: hitler's elite "guards" as the name suggests. The key symbol being a reference to the unit's leader "dietrich" (a german name but simultaniously a word for key or general purpose tool to open locks) I guess l will pass my finals in nothern/germanic symbolism but l really should fresh up my eastern european lore, sorry for that lol.
@@flatheadgg2443 The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) The Ruthenian lion (Ukrainian: Руський лев, romanized: Rus'kyi lev, Polish: Lew ruski), Ukrainian (Russiae) lion, or Halychian (Galician) lion[1] is a golden lion on an azure background. The lion was featured on the historic coat of arms of the Kingdom of Rus, the Ruthenian Voivodeship and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic. During the revolutions in the Austrian Empire in 1848, it became one of the national symbols of Ukrainians and the Ukrainian national liberation movement.
@@flatheadgg2443 29 (Russian) seems to be the Cross of St. George, or the Decoration of the Military Order of Saint George The other 29 (Italian) is actually called a Fasces, a bound bundle of wooden rods, sometimes including an axe with its blade emerging. The fasces is an Italian symbol that had its origin in the Etruscan civilization and was passed on to ancient Rome, where it symbolized a magistrate's power and jurisdiction 26 and 25 are the symbol of the Arrowcross Party, which is the Hungarian Far-right ultranationalist party of the time, led by Ferenc Szálasi, which formed a government in Hungary they named the Government of National Unity 7 is a modified version of the Othala Rune (Addition of "Feet" or Serfs"), symbolizing several values of central importance to Nazi ideology 6 is a Hagal Symbol, its symbolic representation of "unshakeable faith" in Nazi philosophy, as Himmler put it. Basically just a symbol for 'Faith in Nazism'.
I miss the XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps Commanded by SS-Obergruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Heer Feldataman: Helmuth von Pannwitz. I miss also the Dutch flag with te Wiking division, there were more Dutchmen than Scandinavian.
Divisions composed mainly of Russians: SS «RONA» 30th SS Grenadier SS «Warager» SS «Druzhina» Divisions that included Russians: SS «Charlemagne» SS «Dirlewanger» 15th SS Cossack Corps SS «Nibelungen» Everyone knows about the Hitler Youth, but few people know that Russian children were also selected and trained in order to organize a special SS division from them in the future. Operation “W. Bussard” There were 800k people in the SS. Among them were 100k💪🏻Russians, and Ukrainians only 25k🤏🏻
A slav is a slav. We need to stop this mindset of "us against them" and realize ukrainians and russians are just fighting a brother war they have no say in
@@patternrecon5271 sorry, got the stats for China wrong. It’s supposed to be 1.09, from China's Population and Development Research Center Apart from Ukraine and Moldova, these countries have significantly lower replacement rate.
Когда парням исполняется 18 лет, они выбирают одного из этих персонажей, чтобы на его основе сформировать свою личность When the boy turned 18, they chose one of these characters to build their personality around
Знаешь, что такое кринж? Это когда чел с подписками на русскоязычные каналы, выдает себя за европейца и занимается агитацией, и вас под комментариями реально много. Кстати РОА still exist, в виде государства российская федерация.
@@opidu9427 это канал на англ. языке, поэтому и коммент на английском. Если хочешь возразить по существу, по поводу героизации СС Галичина на Украине, то я тебя и на украинском пойму.
@@Someone111ify Бо служба німцям була краща за совкову окупацію. Голодомор 1932, Червоний терор 1937 і дуже погане забезпечення в совєтській армії гнали людей боротися проти режиму з надією на якесь покращення. Але що Сталін, що Гітлер дві сторони одної медалі
The most beautiful thing here? Not a single Polish division was ever formed. Out of all occupied lands of the Reich, Poles and Czechs were most reluctand to cooperation and colaboration with the German invaders.
@@skdKitsune not exactly true. Volksdeutsches as well as highlanders were 100% given the opportunity, but it never got any traction. Also it should be added, that most Poles that did saw combat for the Germans, were most often already forcefully conscripted to Wehrmacht
@@easterworshipper730 You are very well correct, as before D day, Polish Armed Forces in the West, numbered around 100k troops, and as the war was ending, it grew to some 200k, from which at least 89k were Wehrmacht deserters and some few thousand more POW.
