Cross & Swastika: Orthodox Europe and the Waffen-SS

Cross & Swastika: Orthodox Europe and the Waffen-SS uncovers one of World War II's most controversial and suppressed histories-the recruitment of Orthodox Christian and Balkan volunteers into the Waffen-SS. With chilling archival depth and intellectual precision, historian and former intelligence consultant Dr. Stephen Dietrich-Kolokouris explores how the Nazi regime used religious imagery, classical mythology, and historical trauma to seduce communities into ideological service.

From the failed creation of a Greek SS division to the fusion of Orthodox iconography with SS symbology, this book uncovers a suppressed history of complicity, resistance, and memory that continues to haunt Europe to this day.

Featuring a 250-term glossary, thematic references embedded throughout, and a gripping narrative voice, this book is both academic in form and human in scope.

"Between oath and oblivion, there is only what we choose to record."