Crusade against Bolshevism

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The 'Crusade Against Bolshevism' was partially the outgrowth of Hitler's ideas in Mein Kampf, which outlined the destruction of Bolshevism, the seizure of lebensraum ('Living space') for Germany and extermination of Jews. This policy resulted in the racist laws persecuting Jews in Nazi Germany, as they were seen by Hitler to be connected to Bolshevik ideology. Later it led to the outbreak of World War II with the attack on Poland to pursue German Lebensraum. The attack on USSR and Holocaust were the main points of the Nazi ideology of fighting Bolshevism, as they had seen Bolshevism to be linked to nations considered subhuman, such as Jews. The propaganda slogan led to substantial numbers of men, mostly from countries with nationality classified as Aryan by Nazi, to volunteer for the Waffen-SS. While recruits originating from areas under German control might be dismissed as opportunists or simply men seeking to escape the worst privations of life under occupation, those from neutral countries or Nazi puppet regimes show the flow of genuine volunteers was not insignificant.

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