Wehrmacht foreign volunteers and conscripts

Among the approximately one million foreign volunteers and conscripts who served in the Wehrmacht during World War II were ethnic Germans, Belgians, Czechs, Dutch, Finns, French, Greeks, Hungarians, Norwegians, Poles, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedes, along with people from the Baltic states and the Balkans.

Russian émigrés and defectors from the Soviet Union formed the Russian Liberation Army or fought as Hilfswillige (approximately another 800,000 to 1,000,000 voluntary assistants) within German units of the Wehrmacht primarily on the Eastern Front. Non-Russians from the Soviet Union formed the Ostlegionen (literally "Eastern Legions"). These units were all commanded by General Ernst-August Köstring (1876−1953) and represented about five percent of the forces under the OKH.

Soviet Union

 * 162nd Turkoman Division: The very effective 162nd Turkoman Division was formed in May 1943 and comprised 5 Azeri and 6 Turkestani artillery/infantry units.
 * XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps: Until 1 February 1945 under command of the Wehrmacht, then the Corps was transferred to the Waffen-SS
 * Armenische Legion
 * Azerbaijani Legion
 * Caucasian Muslim Legion
 * Georgian Legion (1941–1945)
 * Kalmykian Voluntary Cavalry Corps
 * Nachtigall Battalion
 * predominantly foreign sub-battalion of the Brandenburgers
 * Ostlegionen: By late 1943 the Eastern legions contained 427,000 volunteers and conscripts)
 * Roland Battalion (Special Group Roland)
 * predominantly foreign sub-battalion of the Brandenburgers
 * Russian Corps
 * Russian Liberation Army
 * Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling
 * Turkestan legion: The battalions of the Turkistani Legion formed part of the 162nd Infantry Division and saw much action in Yugoslavia and Italy.
 * Ukrainian Liberation Army
 * Volga Tatar Legion

Croatia

 * 369th (Croatian) Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
 * 373rd (Croatian) Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
 * 392nd (Croatian) Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
 * 369th Croatian Reinforced Infantry Regiment (Wehrmacht)
 * Croatian Naval Legion

Other Europe

 * Polnische Wehrmacht (World War II) (White Eagle's Legion)
 * Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism
 * Blue Division
 * including one company (150 to 200 volunteers) of Portuguese
 * Poulos Verband

Asian states

 * Indische Legion
 * Free Arabian Legion