There has never been a book like this! This is the first serious study of the service of Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans who lived in other countries, including the USSR) in the SS troops. Did you know that the number of such SS men was hundreds of thousands? How did the Nazis manage to attract “compatriots abroad” to their side, turning them into one of the main sources of recruitment for the Waffen-SS? And what role did the “Soviet Germans” play in this “Hitler’s guard”? In our era of militant globalism and the new “migration of peoples,” this topic is especially relevant!