" Seventy-five percent of our soldiers were manual laborers. Many among them had been susceptible, once, to Soviet propaganda. They stood with their mouths agape when they saw in what conditions of decay and exhaustion the Russian proletariat existed. They shook their heads, having to look twice at the scene before believing it. "

― Leon Degrelle , The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941-1945