Take my body home and WIN THE WAR! - The last words of Henk Van Der Kuil

23. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division Nederland (niederlandische Nr. 1) consisted of Dutch volunteers and was formed 10 Feb 1945 when SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Brigade Nederland was upgraded.

Nederland was given the number 23 when the Kama division was disbanded.



It fought on the Eastern front seeing action on the Oder and south of Berlin where it was caught in the Halbe pocket, before surrendering to US forces at the end of the war.



The Dutch soldiers were planned to be a part of the Nordland division but after protests from the Dutch nazi-party, Nationaal Socialistische Beweging (NSB), it was decided that they would form their own division.