Wehrmacht foreign volunteers and conscripts

Among the approximately one million foreign volunteers and conscripts who served in the Wehrmacht during World War II were ethnic Belgians, Czechs, Dutch, Finns, Danes, French, Hungarians, Norwegians, Poles,[1] Portuguese, Swedes,[2] Swiss along with people from Great Britain, Ireland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Balkans.

[4] Many Soviet citizens (Russians and other non-Russian ethnic minorities) joined the Wehrmacht forces as Hiwis (or Hilfswillige).

[5] The Ukrainian collaborationist forces were composed of an estimated number of 180,000 volunteers serving with units scattered all over Europe.

[7] Non-Russians from the Soviet Union formed the Ostlegionen (literally "Eastern Legions").

[9] A lower estimate for the total number of foreign volunteers that served in the entire German armed forces (including the Waffen SS) is 350,000.

Andrey Vlasov and General Zhilenkov (center) of the Russian Liberation Army meeting with Joseph Goebbels (February 1945)
Soldier of the Free Arabian Legion in Greece, September 1943
Foreign volunteer battalion in the Wehrmacht . Soldiers of the Free Arabian Legion in Greece, September 1943.
Spanish volunteer forces of the Blue Division entrain at San Sebastián , 1942
The Ukrainian Liberation Army 's oath to Adolf Hitler
Ingrian Wehrmacht volunteers of the 664th Eastern Battalion , 1943