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Originally Posted by Von Poop  Seems there were a fair few German members postwar that were ex Wehrmacht & SS. Certainly, to my mind, some present at Dien bien Phu.
Really could do with a quality book on the Foreign Legion, I'm becoming more and more interested. |
Quite true, the FFL was the way these people removed themselves from Europe by serving in Indo China, no questions asked.Indo China was an immediate running sore for the French who tried to reimpose colonial rule when the Japanese capitulated.It ended as we know finally, with US involvement in 1973, off the roof tops.In 1954, Indo China was split into two by an agreement in Geneva.The old story of a north and south countries, both with different ideologies.
Holland had a similar problem with the Dutch East Indies after the Japanese capitulated but in the end had to pack up and leave the place to the now Indonesians.
Quite a safe haven to some of the surviving SS bigwigs, not caught in Europe, was Egypt and Syria for obvious reasons.