Excerpts and notes from "The Waffen-SS: A European History"

SS foreign volunteer motives: 1. Anti-communism. 2. Pan-Germanic Europe/pan-Europeanism. 3. Petty nationalist hopes. 4. Greed, ambition, anti-Semitism.

Contrast to the distinct "right-wing nihilism"s of the Freikorps on the one hand, and the postwar French Foreign Legion and mercenary companies on the other. The former sort of leading into the SS, the latter following tenuously from it

Watch Der Lachende Mann interview. In it, archetypal right-wing nihilist Kongo Müller (a real "neoliberal" if ever there was one) talks about fighting for the "West", wherever it is, whatever form...implicitly, however-degraded.

Another parallel to Skorzeny's work for Mossad.

Thanks to @louisbeamerboy for this recommendation.