Alternate SS Divisions

SS Freiwilligen Division Hotspur Later became the army of the Northumbrian Free State. Initially formed by POWs from the Nurthumberland Fuseliers, the Durham Light Infantry and the Green Howards.
 
SS Freiwilligen Division Hotspur Later became the army of the Northumbrian Free State. Initially formed by POWs from the Nurthumberland Fuseliers, the Durham Light Infantry and the Green Howards.

I initially wanted to reply that I didn't think the Germans would go through the effort to distinguish all the different groups and give them their own divisions, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized they probably would. :p
 
Indeed. I dont see what the problem is.

I just see it as uncharacteristic for '44-45, that's all. Late war Germany did rather give untrained units grandiose names to make them sound more impressive than they are than tag units with battle-hardened men with underwhelming names that would make them seem inferior.
 
The following divisions have the associated puppet state in parentheses

SS Freiwilligen Division "Éléonore de Guyenne" (Aquitaine)
SS Freiwilligen Division "Ethan Allen" (Vermont Republic)
SS Freiwilligen Division "John Dillinger" (Federal Republic of Chicago)
 
Re: SS formations

SS LuftSturm Grenadier Division 'Walkuren' commanded by Hanna Reisch-a 'tri-cap'(panzer brigade, panzergrenadier brigade and a hubschrauber fallschirmjager fliegergruppe) division utilising helicopters. All female pilots.

SS JagdKommando "Phoenix" Division-commanded by Skorzeny, broken up into kampfgruppe for various duties/missions. Penal units and mixed foreignors.

If the SS purge the Kriegsmarine you could have the SSKM 'Drache' RaketeSchlachtKrueser(V1's) with a SS Seebattalion 'Kraken'

and stay away from Ilse's Wulfen Brigade...
 
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Wasn't there an SS Division made up of Hitlerjugend kids?

As Kome pointed out, the 12th SS Panzer-Division "Hitlerjugend". Created by using a cadre of battle hardened veterans of the 1st SS Panzer-Division "Liebstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" and kids from the Hitlerjugend. It was unique in that it was considered a sister division to the 1st SS, rather than an entirely new division, and even used the 1st SS' symbol with the addition of a single sigrunen in the background. The 12th SS despite being a late war divsion, acquitted itself well during the fighting in and around Normandy as part of 1st SS Panzer Korps under Sepp Dietrich.
 
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