List of Knight's Cross recipients 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
Автор:Jesse Russell Год: 2013 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 120 ISBN: 9785514420186 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. was a German Waffen SS division recruited from foreign volunteers. During the course of World War II, the division progressed from a motorised infantry, Regiment formation to a full-fledged Panzer division. It saw action on the Eastern Front during the war. After the success of the Waffen SS during the early war campaigns in Poland and the West, it was decided to expand the number of Waffen SS divisions. Due to the influx of foreign volunteers, particularly from Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway, a decision was made to form a volunteer division. This unit, originally organized as the Nordische Division (Nr.5), was to be made up of Nordic volunteers mixed with ethnic German Waffen-SS veterans. To this end, the Germania motorised infantry regiment from the SS-Division Verfugungstruppe was removed from the division in late 1940. In December, Germania was dissolved and the troops were used as a basis...
