Hitler's Vikings
The WW2 Podcast
Angus Wallace
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
At the beginning of WWII Germany invaded and occupied Denmark and Norway, but left neutral Sweden alone. Less than a year later citizens from all three of those Scandinavian nations were volunteering to join the Waffen-SS. By the end of the war in 1945 the number of Scandinavians who had fought in the Waffen-SS had reached the thousands. Casualties were high, but there were survivors and they returned home, often to face retribution and condemnation.
In episode 55, I discussed the Flemish Waffen SS, with Jonathan Trigg. Since then he's been busy tracking down the few surviving veterans of the SS who were from Scandinavia, for his new book Voices of the Scandinavian Waffen SS: The Final Testament of Hitler's Vikings.
Being a fellow Yorkshireman, with a new book, on a very interesting topic, I thought it rude not to ask him back!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another World War II podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | In episode 55 I discussed the Flemish Woffen SS with Jonathan Trigg. Well since then he's been busy tracking down the few |
| 0:16.7 | surviving veterans of the SS who are from Scandinavia. For his new book Voices of the Scandinavia. For his new book, Voices of the Scandinavian Woffen SS, the |
| 0:26.7 | final testament of Hitler's Vikings. I thoroughly enjoyed the last book and the new one I stormed through in a couple of days. |
| 0:35.8 | Being a fellow Yorkshireman with a new book on an interesting topic I thought it rude not to ask him back but before we get to the |
| 0:45.9 | Scandinavians I'd just like to say hello to all the new patrons who came aboard |
| 0:50.7 | in September as some of you may recall, I had a prize draw for the book British Battle Tanks co-authored by Tank |
| 0:58.9 | Supremo David Fletcher. |
| 1:02.0 | Everyone who is a patron by the 30th September 2018 was included in the draw. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, I did the draw, you can see the video on Patreon that's Patreon.com slash W.2 |
| 1:16.6 | podcast and the lucky winner is Simon Dairy. A copy of the book is winging its way to you as I speak. |
| 1:29.4 | This podcast is made possible through the support of listeners like yourself, pledging a dollar or two each month to help me make the show. |
| 1:37.0 | You can find all the details at patreon.com slash W.W.2 Podcast. and for patrons I can almost guarantee some extra of Jonathan and I chatting last |
| 1:51.2 | year we talked for a couple of hours. Anyway let's get cracking Jonathan |
| 1:55.6 | it's it's lovely to have you back this might sound silly but shall we start by |
| 2:00.1 | defining Scandinavian. |
| 2:02.7 | Which countries are we talking about? |
| 2:06.1 | For the original book where I did Hitler's Vikings, I tried to cover all of the Nordic countries because it was a bit of a cheat on the title. |
| 2:16.7 | So Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. |
| 2:21.6 | When I came to do the Voices one and thought, right, I'm going to try and |
| 2:28.0 | mirror that. But in my mind, I wasn't going to cover the fins and that was partly because I hadn't been able |
| 2:36.6 | really to to get to know veterans for the for the first book so I didn't have that level of contact to go back to and felt |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Angus Wallace, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Angus Wallace and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.