The Waffen-SS is a disquieting paradox for the Western mind. It was an elite military formation in the Western model - courageous and sometimes chivalrous. It was simultaneously bloodthirsty, cruel and a willing participant in Hitler's Weltanschaung ideals. To deny the role of the Waffen-SS in war crimes is a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of the Waffen-SS as even Waffen-SS soldiers understood it. No army in history was without its war crimes, however, and that has never stopped historians from remembering them.
With that in mind, we submit our look at the foreign units of the Waffen SS here