Several thousand ethnic Germans in Romania (the so-called
Volksdeutscher) were drafted into the Waffen-SS in 1943. With these new
troops, Himmler built up the new 11th Waffen-SS Division. To fill the
ranks, Division "Nordland" also took over battalion-strength units from
Danmark and Norway, though 90 percent of the division were Volksdeutsche
from Romania. They were first used incombat in Croatia, the
Oranienbaumer, Estonia, and Latvia. After the Soviet attack in
Pomerania, they fought in Berlin and were destroyed there.