To: sergey1973
France in 1939-40French forces fought throughout the Italian campeign until 1944 and their diversion to Anvil which was renamed Dragoon.
German forces included allies: Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Slovania, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Finland. SS (loyal to Hitler period) had units composed of all of the above, plus: Albanians, Bosnians, French, British, Belgian (per capita more then even Germans), Dutch, Ukranians and Greeks.
5 posted on
05/05/2005 10:37:48 AM PDT by
jb6
(Truth == Christ)
To: jb6
Ethnic Russians were fighting for German Army too--Vlasov Army (Russian Liberation National Army) for example. It was a terrible period.
7 posted on
05/05/2005 10:41:00 AM PDT by
sergey1973
(Russian American Political Blogger, Arm Chair Strategist)
To: jb6
German forces included allies: Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Slovania, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Finland. SS (loyal to Hitler period) had units composed of all of the above, plus: Albanians, Bosnians, French, British, Belgian (per capita more then even Germans), Dutch, Ukranians and Greeks.
Don't forget a few others as well...
"By the autumn of 1944 the Waffen-SS European volunteer tally sheet contained the following elements: 2 Dutch brigades, 2 Belgian brigades, 1 French brigade and 1 Italian brigade, (all being transformed into divisions), 2 Croat Moslem divisions, 1 Albanian Moslem division, 2 Hungarian divisions with 2 more in the works that never panned out, 2 Scandinavian/German divisions, 2 Latvian divisions, 1 Estonian division, 2 Russian divisions (both of which would later be transferred to the Vlasov Liberation Army), 1 Ukranian division, 1 Italian/German division, 1 Hungarian/German division, 1 Balkan/German division, 1 Serbian division, numerous ethnic brigades from the Soviet Union, and small detachments of Spaniards, Britons, Greeks, Romanians, Bulgarians, Arabs and Indians ."
49 posted on
05/06/2005 6:00:06 AM PDT by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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