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Volunteers of 11.ϟϟ-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division „Nordland“
SS-Sturmmann Svend Larsen
11.SS-Frw.Pz.Gren.Div. Nordland
Danish SS-Sturmmann Svend Arne Larsen born in 1921 volunteered for the Waffen-SS in 1941. He served with the Danish SS volunteer free corps Freikorps Danmarkin the Demyansk Pocket in 1942 and were transferred to SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 24 Danmark of 11.SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Nordland in 1944. Svend Larsen was awarded the Infantry Assault Badge and the Wound Badge in Silver. As an active veteran he received the Veterans decorations Ulrichsberg Ehrenzeichen in Gold and in 1999, a medal from the Estonian Association of Freedom Fighters. Svend Arne Larsen died aged 88 on March 22 2008 in Jutland in Denmark. Here's a link to an interview from 1994 with among others Waffen-SS volunteer Svend Larsen for Danish TV2 (without English subtitles). Left image: SS-Sturmmann Svend Larsen during his stay at the SS-Lazerett Trauenstein in Bavaria in 1944. Public domain. Right image: an unidentified Norwegian SS-Rottenführer of the Nordland Divison. They both wear the Nordland Sunwheel collar patch. Courtesy of P. Wallendal.
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