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04-01-2008, 08:50 PM
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| Angels one-five   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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 |  French Foreign Legion - Waffen SS After having a discussion with a guy at work. He told me that after the war, a lot of Waffen SS joined the French Foreign Legion. Does anybody have any more info, please? Is this true? It does make a lot of sense.
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04-01-2008, 10:18 PM
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| 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.
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04-01-2008, 10:24 PM
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| Were the FFL fighting in Korea not long after WWII?
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. In the USAAF in World War II, over three times as many men were killed as wounded. Donald L. Miller. Avatar: SOE agent Andree Borrel killed at Natzweiler 6th July 1944. |
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05-01-2008, 12:27 AM
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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. | |
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05-01-2008, 05:14 AM
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| Discharged  Join Date: Nov 2007
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| I'm afraid tracing any of those Legionairies will be imposasible,....they leave their old identity behind and become French Citizens after their service time is over with the Legion....I had a friend from my hometown that went off to join, and we could not contact him, principally because he no longer existed as such!....Researching this aspect of Waffen SS history will be difficult if not impossible to trace many of the participants.....not putting a dampener on anything... |
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05-01-2008, 05:50 AM
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I heard this story that their was this Jewish legionaire going through the Indochinese jungle. He recognized beside him the guard at the camp he had been in. Then he shot him, deserted, ran away to Israel and got a pardon. In point of fact, a lot of the Waffen SS were mercenaries with almost no ethnic or ideological connection with the Nazi regime, except for the fact that it was a source of pay. Joining the Foreign Legion was often just finding a new employer. | |
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05-01-2008, 07:27 AM
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| the deadliest b#tch ever   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Russian Federation
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| Also many ex-GESTAPO 'workers' found their new job in South America and Africa after the WW2, u may know interesting organization 'ODESSA': ODESSA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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