SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking" was rightfully considered one of the most combat-ready SS formations, the first and best of the "foreign" units of the Third Reich, the leader of the "Hitler International." Created before Hitler's attack on the USSR, this division was staffed not only by Germans, but also by volunteers from Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland - in full accordance with the Nazi slogan about the "Crusade of Europe against Bolshevism."