A2-Nederlanders SS Poster

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'Nederlanders SS' A2 Poster - 594mm x 420mm printed onto 250gsm silk finish.

Between 22,000 and 25,000 Dutchmen volunteered for the Waffen-SS during World War II, forming units like the Volunteer Legion Netherlands (later the 4th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Brigade Nederland) and Landstorm Nederland, fighting primarily on the Eastern Front, a dark chapter of Dutch collaboration that involved ideological commitment, participation in combat, and war crimes, with many units suffering heavy losses. 

The Volunteer Legion Netherlands (Vrijwilligerslegioen Nederland) was a collaborationist military formation recruited in the German-occupied Netherlands during World War II. It was formed in the aftermath of the German invasion of the Soviet Union and fought on the Eastern Front in the Waffen SS alongside similar formations from other parts of German-occupied Western Europe. It was the largest Dutch SS unit.

The Volunteer Legion was renamed the 4th SS Panzer Grenadier Brigade Netherlands in October 1943. It was officially re-designated as a division in February 1945 but never grew to larger than a brigade.

The 34th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Landstorm Nederland" (34. SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division "Landstorm Nederland") was an infantry division of the Waffen-SS. The unit consisted mainly of Dutch volunteers and was active exclusively on the Western Front from its formation in March 1943, to its surrender and disarming in May 1945. Despite its name, the ‘division’ only ever reached the size of a brigade, consisting of 6,000 men and officers at its surrender in 1945.