When reality is stranger than fiction. Lauri Törni / Larry Thorne served in three armies: Finland’s infantry, Germany’s Waffen-SS when as a POW he escaped from a British camp, and the US Army special forces he helped organize and train. He died at 45 in a helicopter crash while serving in the Vietnam war. By then he wore the rank of Major with two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star.
(1919-1965)
Edited to add this important note: Törni couldn’t care less about Hitler’s ideology. When Finland signed a peace treaty with the Soviets after the Winter War (in which he also participated), and Russia asked to gain the Eastern territories of his country, Törni would have none of it. He enlisted with the Germans to fight them. History is a complicated beast.