Eric Pleasants

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Eric Pleasants (1911-1998) was a British citizen during World War II who defected to serve in the Waffen-SS. Pleasants was an SS-Schütze in the British Free Corps which, in 1941, became a foreign legion of the Waffen-SS.

Pleasants deserted from the Waffen-SS in 1945 and went into hiding. Captured by the Red Army in 1946, he was imprisoned for seven years in a gulag along the arctic circle before returning to England in the 1950s.

Pleasants' autobiography was published posthumously as Hitler's Bastard: Through Hell and Back in Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia (2003).

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