Rare account of a non-German who fought in the elite Waffen-SS - New information on the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division - No-holds-barred narrative of the Eastern Front This is the story of Erik Wallin, a Swede who volunteered for the Waffen-SS, serving in the panzer reconnaissance battalion of the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division, a unit composed mainly of volunteers from Scandinavia. The division saw combat in the Courland Pocket, along the Oder River, and in Berlin. Thorolf Hillblad lives in Idaho.