Norwegian Waffen-SS Legion, 194143

Massimiliano Afiero was born in in Afragola (Naples Province) in 1964. An information technology teacher and programmer, he has been interested in military history since his youth, specializing in the history of Axis units during the Second World War and particularly in the Waffen-SS. He has published numerous articles in the principal Italian-language history magazines and has contributed to many military history websites and published numerous books dealing with foreign volunteers in the German armed forces during the Second World War. In December 2015, he began publication of the magazine, The European Volunteer (L'Assalto Edizioni), dedicated to the military history of Axis units during the Second World War and in January 2017, he began publication of the magazine The Axis Forces. He lives in Naples, Italy. Ramiro Bujeiro has become a frequent and popular contributor to Osprey since illustrating Warrior 23: US Marine in Vietnam (1998). He is an experienced commercial artist who lives and works in his native city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. His professional background includes many commissions as a figure illustrator and strip cartoonist for clients all over Europe and the Americas, including many years' work for IPC Magazines in Great Britain. His main interests are the political and military history of Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

Introduction: Operation 'Barbarossa', June 1941 the concept of foreign volunteer SS 'Legions' * Quisling's fascist movement in occupied Norway * Creation, training, organization and leadership of the Freiwilligen Legion Norwegen within the Waffen-SS, July 1941-February 1942 * Transfer to Leningrad front in northern Russia, February-March 1942 * Defensive actions in Urizk/ Gorgosi sector, April-May 1942 * Admission of picked Norwegians to SS Bad Tolz officer academy, July 1942 * Battalion group forms part of 2nd SS Infantry Brigade, Volkhov sector, August 1942 * Addition of Norwegian SS Police Company, September 1942 * Autumn 1942 battles * Second battle of Lake Ladoga, action at Krazny Bor, January-February 1943 * Relieved, March 1943 enlarged into SS-PzGren Regt 23 'Norge' within what would become 11. SS-Freiwilligen PzGren Div 'Nordland'. * Select Bibliography * Plate Commentaries uniforms and insignia.