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Ukrainian volunteers in the ranks of the SS Division Viking in the second half of 1944 - this fact seems fantastic at first glance. However, it was in the summer of 1944 that about a thousand Ukrainian volunteers were indeed enlisted in the ranks of the 5th SS Panzer Division Viking. This was a unique case in the history of World War II when Slavic soldiers were sent to replenish an elite SS division - along with German and other European volunteers."

In the ranks of the Viking, Ukrainian soldiers underwent military training and in September 1944 fought at the front against the Red Army at the famous Narevske bridgehead. There, they experienced the real hell of war, in which the Germans managed to stop the furious onslaught of the Red Army. The Ukrainian soldiers of the Viking also contributed to this success, and at least 150 of them were killed.