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There were a number of SS Divisions with a western origin or flavor.
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The SS recruited from throughout the west (and amongst others) for their Freiwilligen (foreign volunteers) legions in their proclaimed "
fight against bolshevism."
These volunteers wore a national shield on their left sleeve below the SS eagle and came from the UK (a battalion which wore a Union Jack sleeve shield), Croatia (including Bosnian Muslims - 13th SS Mountain Div which wore a dark red fez for dress uniform and a field gray one in the mountains of the Balkans), Galicia, Latvia, Lithuania, Albania, Hungary, Belgium, Russia, Italy, France, Denmark, Norway, Holland, India, and amongst the Cossacks of Eastern Europe.
I have never run across any information on any American SS participation.
The Bender/Taylor books (I have most of them) and a series put out by the Imperial War Museum are some of the most authoritative (if you can find them) as is the book put out by the former members of the Waffen SS themselves -
Wenn alle Bruder schweigen - which I picked up when stationed in Bad Tolz.
An interesting subject for study.
Richard's $.02
