[Below: Flemish volunteers in a ceremony on the Grote Markt, Brussels, Belgium. Circa 1940.]

[Below: Flemish volunteers in a ceremony on the Grote Markt, Brussels, Belgium. Circa 1940.]

[Below: Flemish volunteers in a ceremony on the Grote Markt, Brussels, Belgium. Circa 1940.]

[Below: Flemish volunteers in a ceremony on the Grote Markt, Brussels, Belgium. Circa 1940.]

[Below: Flemish volunteers in a ceremony on the Grote Markt, Brussels, Belgium. Circa 1940.]

[Below: Dutch volunteer recruits for the Waffen-SS Netherlands marching on the streets of the Hague, August 7, 1941.]

[Below: Eager stiff arm salute wielding Dutch Legion volunteers on their way to fight communism on the Eastern Front. Check out the odd swastika closest to us on the side of the train!]

[Below: Belgian volunteers in the Flemish 27. Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division.]

[Below: Danish volunteer with the German luftwaffe.]

[Below: Flemish and German officers attend a ceremony in Antwerp, Belgium, marking the departure of a contingent of Flemish volunteers in 1944.]

[Below: The Flemish Legion Flandern.]

[Below: Volunteers from the Flemish Legion Flandern.]

[Below: Flemish musicians.]

[Below: Flemish and Dutch volunteers during training in Upper Bavaria.]

[Below: Flemish volunteers with Staf DeClercq (September 16, 1884 – October 22, 1942), leader of the Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond (VNV).]

[Below: Flemish volunteers of the heroic Sturmbrigade Langemarck parading in Schoten, Belgium in the summer of 1943.]

[Below: A Flemish volunteer with Das Reich ties the knot.]

[Below: Ustuf. Bert Degruytter, 3. Kp. Vlaams legioen, Bad Tölz.]

[Below: De Vlaamse Wacht paradeert in Antwerpen (The Flemish Guard parade in Antwerp.)]

[Below: Eastern Front volunteers Geert Ryckebusch and Juliaan Platteau say the Oath of Loyalty to Flanders]

[Below: A highly decorated Flemish volunteer]

[Below: The party congress, April 1, 1940.]

[Below: Dutch volunteers from the 23rd SS Volunteer Division Nederland marching in the streets of Hague, summer 1941.]

[Below: Dutch volunteers from the Regiment 'Westland', a motorised infantry regiment of the 'Wiking' division, training in Munich.]

[Below: Dutch volunteers from the 'Westland' Regiment, a motorised infantry regiment of the 'Wiking' division, training in Munich.]

[Below: Dutch soldiers training with artillery.]

[Below: Men of the Free Corps Denmark leaving for the Eastern Front from Hellerup Station in 1941.]

[Below: Hou en Trou = Bad Ass! Okay, just kidding! Thanks to T.V.V. who emailed me with a translation of this (since the online translators didn't help!), I can tell you that this means '(To) Love and Loyalty, a basterized version to make it a rhyme. Hou also means Steady and Loyalty hence, to Hold/Love, be Steady. It's Flemish/Dutch.)

[Below: Dutch volunteer in the Waffen SS reading Storm SS, November 1942.]

[Below: Returning soldiers from the Eastern Front of the Freikorps Danmark are greeted by grateful civilians.]

[Below: SS-Obersturmbannführer Knud Børge Martinsen, who joined the Waffen-SS in May 1941. He served with Freikorps Danmark under the hero Christian Frederich von Schalburg and fought in Russia. After Schalburg's martyrdom in June 1942, Martinsen took command of the Freikorps and led it until March 1943 when it was withdrawn from the front. He was awarded the Infantry Assault Badge and both classes of Iron Cross. In this picture you can see the 'Freikorps Danmark' cuffband.]

[Below: Danish SS-Sturmmann Svend Arne Larsen (born in 1921) served in SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 24 Danmark.]

[Below: SS-Sturmmann Sven Arne Larsen.]

[Below: Danish hero Niels Martinus Lassen (1920-1987) who was a member of the Free corps Denmark and later the SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 24 Danmark.]