Multinational Waffen-SS war criminals form NATO

After the surrender of Germany, many multinational SS volunteers and conscripts were tried and imprisoned by their countries. In several cases, volunteers were executed as traitors. Multinational SS volunteers from the Baltic States and Ukraine were to be sent to Soviet penal labour camps. To avoid this, many ex-multinational SS from these regions joined underground resistance groups which were engaged fighting the Soviets until the 1950s. Many other Waffen-SS volunteers, including many Wiking veterans, avoided punishment by joining the French Foreign Legion. It is estimated that out of roughly 70,000 members of the SS involved in war crimes in German concentration camps, only between 1650 and 1700 were tried after the war. Many fled to Nazi sympathizer countries. Most, however, went on to form and control the new Nazi SS combat arm called NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). The new multinational Waffen-SS organization called NATO was allowed to be formed with the full support the United States and England. Both the United States and England helped the multinational SS officers create NATO because of the communist threat from the Soviet Union.