Advise on subject matter,please gentlemen.

I am specifically looking for an informative publication which covers and possibly recounts the mindset and motivation of Nazi collaborators and Waffen SS volunteers of a non-Germanic background.

Please help.

 

Comrades, I see there is a blazing desire to assist ?

 

I don't know af any either. I think this may be a difficult one to find as I think most of those who openly collaborated were shot! I have read that alot of them were anyway! It would difinitely be an interesting read though.
good luck!!

 

Didn't someone called Haythornwaite or something like that do a book called 'Hitler's Germanic Legions' which may not have covered the political aspects looked at the units raised.....

 

"The SS - Hitler's Instrument of Terror" comes to mind. A definitive account of Hitler's private army. It follows the organization from its inception in the 1920s to its demise in 1945. The author delves into the SS's origins and makeup, its role in the concentration camps and race policy, key figures in the field and in the Nazis' internal affairs, and details of weapons, creeds, and oaths of allegiance.

Also look at "Hitler's Renegades: Foreign Nationals in the Service of the Third Reich" by by Christopher Ailsby. Hitlers Renegades is the story of the two million men who made the conscious decision to side with Hitler, even when some of them found Nazi Germany itself and its ideals abhorrent. World War II historian and photo archivist Christopher Ailsby attempts to explain why they made that fateful choice. Illustrated with vivid black-and-white photographs (many previously unpub-lished) of the non-German units in action, this book is the first to chronicle the story of all the foreign troops in Hitlers service, to detail their significance to the war, and to describe how they fared in its aftermath.

Hope this helps

 

yup, Ailsby's book is exactly what you are looking for. I have the Dutch translation called 'Hitler's vreemdelingenlegers'.

As a Belgian, I was mostly interested in the parts on the Flemish 'Langemarck' division and the Wallonia division of degrelle, and i expected to read about yugo's, frenchies;etc
What really stunned me though was the extremely wide variaty of nationalities. I mean there were asians, arabs, you name it, they had a german uniform.

The cover pick of my version is great. It shows an asian looking fellow smoking a cig in a german uniform. The book covers their motivations and everything, a great read.
Other picks are of cossacks, and I remember a great one of some Russian hiwi's, later used by the russians to sniff out the collaborators after the war.

Shows how by the end of the war, the Germans were so starved of manpower they'd even take 'untermenschen' to fight in their armies. Some served with distinction

 

Representing one person's viewpoints and perspective, Leon Degrelle's Campaign in Russia recounts his experiences leading the Wallonian Legion on the Eastern Front.

 

Sorry, ain't got any thing on that particural subject but, I could help you on video games Hehe.

 

Well, there's the official history of the SS Viking - a very good book, but more a combat history.
Franz Seidler's Avantgarde fur Europa is the best book by far giving an overview on foreign volunteers.