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Son of the first Icelandic president served in the Waffen SS

Postby icelander93 » Fri May 20, 2011 2:44 pm

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From the "directional positions on contemporary history, the Great Agile" Volume 4, Page 461 Published 2010 by Grabert Verlag, Tübingen 72 006, PO Box 1629

Son of the Icelandic president in SS

Rolf Kosiek

In the ranks of the Waffen SS served in World War II hundreds of thousands of young Europeans in the fight against Bolshevism. Among them were men who belonged to the elite of their country, known as the oak leaves and fine Belgian SS division commander Léon Degrelle (1906 - 1996) (1).


Still not known, is that the son of a serving president was among the volunteers. He was Björn Sveinsson Björnsson,, the son of the first Icelandic President Sveinn Björnsson (1881 - 1952), who was a lawyer from 1941 to 1944, regent of the country's president was. His son Bjorn was on the 15th October 1909 (died 14 April 1998) born in Reykjavik, where he made the high school and was a shipping agent.

He married 1930. The father of two daughters reported in 1941 voluntarily for the Waffen-SS. He received his training in the 3rd SS Replacement Battalion Ost '. In 1942 he was transferred to the SS war correspondent department, was on 20 April 1942 SS-Sturm Mann (private first class) and 1 September 1942 SS-Sergeant (NCO). He took part in the fighting on the Eastern Front. After a stay at the Cadet School Bad Tolz 1943, he was on 20 April 1944 to SS lieutenant (lieutenant) and was then promoted (2) to the war-member of the SS war correspondent standard, Kurt Eggers'.

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This activity did not harm the political reputation of his father. Iceland presented the Waffengienst - like Liechtenstein - not punishments for Germany, and none of the Icelandic volunteers were prosecuted in 1945, very unlike the heavy fate of the idealistic young men to war in other countries (3).

In this context, the fact is interesting that the spirit of the Hitler Youth which from 1932 until October 1938 acting Berlin, French Ambassador Andre Francois-Poncet so exemplary appeared that he expressed the wish that his son take part in the Nazi youth organization expected, which permitted the Reich Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach gladly (4).
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