Collaboration during World War II Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts German: XV. SS-Kosaken-Kavallerie-Korps, Russian: 15-й казачий кавалерийский
Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände
[ˈaɪnzatsˌɡʁʊpm̩], lit. 'deployment groups'; also 'task forces') were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass