Yes, thanx for sharing the site Carl! Actually I never believed that any French site like this could ever come up...nice surprise!
Quite welcome my friend--I thought you might like it and--I was saving my 10,000th posting as a reply for one of yours or Erichs--depending on who was logged on at that time.
ßß-Division Charlemagne [Archive] - Skadi Forum Found this link running perso wanadoo fr waffen on google. There are a few others that people may be interested in. Here is an interesting exchange I found on the site. Can anyone confirm that the French gave former SS the "opportunity" to fight in Vietnam / Algeria with the Foreign Legion? It seems plausible. It is better than death by hanging, for sure.
Yes i can Rick! I knew a SS vet who was caught at France by the FFF and they gave him two options: 1. Going to be hung up and 2. serving with the FFL. So he choosed the 2nd one and served at Indochine. Than he had seen action against the Vietcong and his platoon was mostly destroyed and some had been caught by the VC. He said that the VC asked who was German and some of the POW said "We are" , they were the lucky ones. He told me that all of the others had been killed by the VC´s and he and his German comrades made a trip to the USSR and from there to the GDR where they came into a special Camp to learn that the Commies are the better people. After some months the GDR send them back to France. So he started war in 1939 and ended war in 1953. He said that he was very angry that he was that dumb to believe in Hitler which costs him his youth and a big part of his life. He died at the age of 78, and was several times wounded in WW2 and heavily wounded by the VC. Not a funny live.
I know several Ukrainians were welcomed there when they switched sides in 1944 and helped the Maquis by killing their German officers. As a "reward" they were given a second chance in the Foreign Legion. This happened in the Neufchateau area.
Yes the famous "re-education and indoctrination" camps. Some former RVN soldiers I know got to graduate from those of the NVA persuasion. Alive fortunately, unlike many of the other students. Camps were near or within the confines of the killing fields of Vietnam and Cambodia. Thank you for the information, Ulrich. An interesting story.
