Due to his exceptional skills, Lauri Törni was dispatched to Austria for training with the Waffen-SS. Spending seven weeks with the combat force during the summer of 1941, he returned to Finland ...

Many of the Nazi officers and personnel who ran the early years of those concentration camps were eventually reassigned to the Waffen-SS, the Nazi ground combat force. Those troops would lead the ...

Hanning joined the Hitler youth in 1935 and the Waffen SS, the armed wing of the SS ... his commander determined he was not fit for combat duty, and he was promoted and sent to Ausch­witz ...

Stefan Ashton Frank (Narrator)Oskar Gröning (Waffen SS Accountant Auschwitz - Birkenau)Hans Friedrich (Waffen SS 1st SS Infantry Brigade)Kurt Barkhausen (Member SS Death Head Division)Ekkehard ...

"Our honor means loyalty" - with this slogan the soldiers of the Waffen-SS go to war in 1939. They think of themselves as more than just soldiers. They are warriors, self-proclaimed elite ...

In honoring a book depicting Ukrainian volunteers in the Waffen SS as heroes and patriots, the group reveals historical ignorance—or indifference to antisemitism. Ad Policy Nazi Minister of the ...

RIGA, March 11. /TASS/. Events on Legionnaire Day, Latvia’s unofficial day of remembrance of the Latvian Waffen SS divisions, may be canceled over coronavirus fears, local Neatkariga Rita Avize ...

The pledge came after it returned $30,000 from the family of Yaroslav Hunka, a Waffen SS veteran who received standing ovations in Parliament during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

Two men, dressed in the uniform of the dreaded Waffen-SS, entered the room and walked ... making him the only Englishman to win a German combat decoration during the war. Cooper was, therefore ...

Former Commons Speaker Anthony Rota is being urged to appear before a House of Commons committee to explain his decision to invite and honour Yaroslav Hunka, a Waffen-SS veteran, during an address ...

a 98-year-old Ukrainian emigre who had fought during World War II in a Ukrainian volunteer division of the Waffen SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party. The AP photo captions failed to ...