Why Did So Many Scandinavians Volunteer For Germany In WW2?

In the Second World War, it wasn't just Germans fighting for Germany. Belgians, Frenchmen, Armenians, Latvians, Portugese, Spaniards and more all answered the call. There was one group however that went down in the history books more than any others and were the main component of the most famous Waffen-SS Division of all time, the SS-Wiking. The Wiking was comprised of 1000's of Scandinavians who all voluntarily decided to join Hitler's war effort against the Soviet Union for a variety of reasons. Let's find out what let these men to risk their lives when they could easily have not done.

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