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# Hitler's Vikings: The History of the Scandinavian Waffen-SS: The Legions, the SS-Wiking and the SS-Nordland (Hitler's Legions)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Men of the North
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 16, 2011*

While I have had a general interest in this topic for years, the only full text I have read is Strassner's `European Volunteers' (which was fairly dry). I was pleased therefore to see the author provide some good context in terms of the dispositions of ethnic Germans and the SS's efforts to utilize it. There is also informative material on the Right-wing movements in the Scandinavian countries and the principal personalities. The impact of Finland's Winter War is also examined, as well as the German invasions of Norway and Denmark.  It was a good introduction to the pre-war circumstances and it put a lot of later developments into perspective.The emergence of a Scandinavian contribution to Germany's war effort is very interesting. The motives cited by Nordic men to join the SS varied but backgrounds in pre-war Right-wing groups and concerns about Soviet intentions towards Europe dominated. There was also a simple admiration for German arms, which ironically was sometimes confounded by German arrogance and discrimination, leading to inadequate training with very negative results. These discouragements were sometimes compounded by significant levels of opposition from families. While volunteering was never strong, the invasion of Russia did cause a spike but as the war situation declined this declined dramatically.Of principal interest to myself and most readers though is the coverage of the war participation of the Nordic volunteers. They are usually associated of course with the Wiking and Nordland SS divisions but Trigg shows that many Nordics served exclusively in separate national legions and never constituted a majority in the iconic divisions. Trigg covers the combat history of all the formations, with the focus on the experiences of Nordic personnel, even in units where they were a minority (Wiking particularly after 1943). The battles are illustrated with a reasonable smattering of first-hand accounts by veterans, some of which are very good, beefed up with award citations, after action reports and so on. This primary source material is complimented by many photos and overall provided a solid account of these actions, at least as far as the Nordic troops were involved. It must be said that sources are scant for later battles but this reflects both the small number of Scandinavians actually involved and the high casualties they suffered in the collapse of the Reich.A real strength of the book for me was the statistics on the numbers of Nordics in the various unit incarnations at different times. While numbers overall seem significant, in reality, aside from the national legions being battalion strength units, they were in effect quite modest. Wiking for instance never mustered much more than 10% Nordics and even when most of the volunteers were united in Nordland in 1943, they amounted to only 2,500 of the division's total of 12,000 men. The ferocity of the fighting then caused casualties to be incurred faster than new volunteers came forward and were particularly serious in regards to officers and NCOs. The author also has much interesting material on unit composition, roles and even equipment. Finally he examines the post-war repercussions faced by the surviving volunteers.As I said above I'm not an expert on this subject but I thought this book was a very good introduction to this topic. It covered the relevant history and the key battles. I am not familiar with the authors other books in his series but I found his writing, with occasional informal moments, to be fine. I enjoyed `Hitler's Vikings' and I recommend it to others who would like to learn more about this area of history.

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    A disappointing waste of my time and money.
  

*by Д***Ь on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 4, 2021*

Not recommended. Overall, the text gives the impression that it was written at high speed, and published as quickly as possible. It needed the services of a good editor. For example, the sentences are often too long, and contain more than one idea. In contrast, I was taught that an academic sentence should contain only one idea. Also, I was disturbed by the author's careless use of terms. For example, he refers to an officer in an early Nordic SS unit as a "neo-Nazi". However, neo-Nazism is a post-1945 phenomenon. So, the officer was in fact a first-generation Nazi. Therefore, the author's imprecise use of language leads me to question the accuracy of his academic research. Likewise, the use of contractions (e.g. "didn't) and other informal constructions is not appropriate in a serious scholarly work. A good editor could have corrected these faults perhaps ?

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    Well written. Specialist subject matter. Eastern Front WWII
  

*by F***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 23, 2013*

Have to be interested in the Eastern Front and the non German SS units. I have been in the Baltic republics and most of the Scandinavian countries so am interested why and how these people chose to fight for the Germans in the second world war. Writing is good but this is book is written for the general reader and not up to the standard of some of the recent books written by international respected historians. For the amount of data the book is an expensive and not a good value ebook.However, it is a good quick enjoyable read.

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