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Chargement... Belgian Waffen-SS Legions & Brigades, 1941–1944: Wallonie, Wallonien, Flandern & Langemarck (Men-at-Arms)par Massimiliano Afiero
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. As nuts-and-bolts military history, I really have no complaints about this booklet, which deals with two of the better regarded volunteer units recruited from countries occupied by the Third Reich for their ostensible "crusade" against International Bolshevism. That said, and keeping in mind that political commentary is not the point here, the author is remarkably bland in talking about the character of Leon Degrelle. This man was the driving force behind the so-called "Walloon Legion," and who worked very hard indeed to make himself indispensable to the Third Reich. To keep it short and to the point, Degrelle seems to have been the sort of individual who gives unfettered opportunism a bad name. This can be compared to Stephen M. Cullen's companion booklet in this series on the security troops of Vichy France, and who found ways to talk forthrightly about French fascist ideology in a critical, yet controlled, fashion. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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At the start of the German occupation of Belgium in May 1940, Flemish recruits from northern Belgium - considered by the Nazis to be 'Germanic' - were accepted individually into Waffen-SS units. After Hitler's invasion of the USSR in June 1941, additional recruits from the French-speaking south (Wallonia) were also drafted in. Both communities formed volunteer 'Legions' to fight (according to Goebbels' propaganda machine) 'for European civilization against the Bolshevik threat'. The Flemish Legion was incorporated into the Waffen-SS and the Walloon Legion into the German Army. Both served on the Russian Front in 1942-43. The Walloon Legion was then transferred into the Waffen-SS (the decorated Walloon officer, Leon Degrelle, became a publicized 'poster boy' for foreign SS volunteers). Both Legions were then redesignated as SS Assault Brigades and, from then onwards, saw extremely heavy fighting in the Ukraine and on the Baltic front. In autumn 1944, their survivors were withdrawn from the front and incorporated into two new SS Divisions: 27. 'Langemarck' and 28. 'Wallonien'. This new account, featuring detailed color plates of uniform and insignia, recounts the battle history of the French and Flemish-speaking Belgian SS, up to their final transformation into full divisions in the winter of 1944/45. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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