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The Waffen-SS had a large number of foreign soldiers, which included soldiers from most countries in Europe. Most were nations occipied by the Nazis, but there were some cases like the British Free Corps, or Legion of St George, which were a few dozen British working for the Nazis. The units were recruited with promises that their volunteers would join the fight against Bolshevism. Now, can the Nazis get an "American Free Corps" on these same lines?

Obviously it would be similar to the Legion of St George--a couple dozen men recruited from POW camps with the promise of joining the "real fight" against the Soviets. Most of the men claim they're doing it to sabotage this Nazi scheme. If they ever get into a real battle on the Eastern Front, they're probably doomed, although anyone who gets captured by the Soviets might prefer the gulag over the death sentence they'd get from the United States (although not all survivors would end up sentenced to death, just the leaders). The leader of this unit might end up a high profile figure and thus be tried for treason (and executed), while other executions would probably be for lesser crimes.

A problem might be the ethnic makeup of the unit--I think you'd see a disproportionate amount of German Americans and possibly Italian Americans interested in an American SS unit (by that I mean "no more than a hundred people"), but wouldn't they just join another Nazi unit (or even Italian?) instead of a new "American" unit? And the biggest problem is actually finding enough people to put together this unit to begin with.

Finally, any "American" names for the unit? It's obviously somewhat difficult since American values and ideals (Freedom, Constitution, etc.) don't really go along well with Nazism, and same goes for American heroes and leaders. You also have to get something all the Americans can agree on, Protestant, Catholic, Northern, Southern, etc. So I think it would have to have a simple name like "America".
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