Dutch Nazi collaborators

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Chapters: 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, 23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland, National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands, Heinrich Boere, Florentine Rost van Tonningen, 34th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Landstorm Nederland, Meinoud Rost van Tonningen, Klaas Carel Faber, Henk Feldmeijer, Robert van Genechten, George Kettmann, H. A. Sinclair de Rochemont, Friedrich Weinreb, Cornelis van Geelkerken, Herbertus Bikker, Jacob Luitjens, Henneicke Column, Ernst Herman van Rappard, Folkert Posthuma, Fritz Schmidt. Excerpt: The 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking was one of the elite Panzer divisions of the thirty eight Waffen SS divisions. It was recruited from foreign volunteers, from Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, The Netherlands, and Belgium under the command of German officers. During the course of World War II, the division progressed from a motorised infantry division to a Panzer division and served on the Eastern Front during World War II. It surrendered in May 1945 to the advancing American forces in Austria. After the success of the Infanterie-Regiment (mot.) Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, SS-Verfügungstruppen-Division and the SS-Division Totenkopf during the early war campaigns in Poland and the West, it was decided to expand the number of Waffen SS divisions. Due to the influx of foreign volunteers, particularly from Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway, a decision was made to form a volunteer division of the Waffen SS under the command of German officers. This unit, originally organized as the Nordische Division (Nr.5), was to be made up of Nordic volunteers mixed with ethnic German Waffen SS veterans. To this end, the SS Infantry Regiment Germania in the SS Verfügungstruppe Division was transferred in late 1940 and used as the cadre for a new division . In December 1940, the new SS motorized formation, was to be designated SS-Division (mot.) Germania. but during its formative period, the name was changed, to SS-Division (mot.) Wiking. in January 1941. The division was formed around three motorised infantry regiments: Germania, formed mostly from ethnic Germans; Westland, consisting mainly of Dutch and Flemish volunteers; and Nordland, composed mostly of Danes, Swedes and Norwegians. Command of the newly formed division was given to Brigadeführer Felix Steiner, the former commander of the Verfügungstruppe SS Regiment Deutschland. After formation the division was sent to Heuberg in Germany for training and by April 1941, SS Division Wiking was deemed ready for co