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Happy Birthday, Rudi,
May many other bithdays follow.

Hi Christian, A lot of personal and private scores where settled this way after the war among citizens... That's right, totally right, at least for France and it's "Epuration sauvage". A number of "25th hour resistants" took advantage of the semi-anarchy that followed for few mon...

In June 1944, there were about 100,000 recorded members of the French Resistance. The number increased rapidly after Overlord, but those figures may be considered as irrelevant as a part of them were obvious "25th hour resistants". Many of them however joined the French regular Army that a...

Hi Richard, Many thanks for you kind comments and proposal. A much more complete version (Still in Franglish) is available at Axis History And a lot of additions, new sources and other improvments are available in French at Histoquiz If you can translate in proper english the French version of Histo...

En 1930, on le prive du commandement de ses goums marocains pour avoir usé de procédés disciplinaires contraires au règlement : il leur a infligé des coups de bâton plutôt que des amendes, sachant que la modestie de leur solde contraint leurs épouses à se prostituer Perhaps Laurent will provide us ...

Paddy Keating wrote:Who consulted FFL HQ

In May 1945, there were not anymore any FFL....
But a Government of the French Republic and a French Army in Germany.
The Army of the French Republic was composed of former FFL, former Resistants, former French colonial army and quite a number of other volunteers.

Hi Sid, Because that particular formulation of words obscures the fact that the Bolsheviks and Nazis also committed war crimes of a type and scale that the French, Americans and British did not. In fact war crimes are committed in each and any war by all armies whatever they are, even today as you a...

Hi everybody, Few consideration regarding the way the French are looking at their History during and after WW2, I mean the one who took the pain to read a bit and try to understand. During the War: Further to the disaster of 1940, the huge majority of the French had simply and only ONE thing in mind...

Hi Le Page, Forbes is right, but both Regiments 57 and 58 had a Panzerschrek Platoon within the Panzerjadger Kompany, both numbered 10. So we had Panzerschreks at the 10/58 (W-Oscha Gerard) and the 10/58 (W-Ostuf Labuze). The first organigram of the Charlemagne was built by Jean Mabire. I have one t...

Hi Le Page, Thanks. This time, I saved those pix, in case Feldgrau get @{ ... Right, the first pix look to show de la Maziere. I will try to check, we are trying to revive the lesvolontaires forum at an other place. Concerning the second pix, it is a "polemical" one. I have seen several th...

Hi Tom,

My pleasure

Le Page wrote: Sure, I'll dig it out--ah you know which one, the one that was in the article about de la Maziere's death, reproduced on les volontaires?

I think I remember but as the site is closed, can't go back there....

I 've said it before and I'll say it again: we should do another forum where veterans can come and participate without every thread in which Arminius, Haen and Co post being dragged into the gutter by the same people every time. Somehow, I don't think it's going to happen here! Try to quote here yo...

Oh Lordy...here we go! Well, that's your point-of-view, Laurent, and it is merely one of many viewpoints expressed about these matters in France. Oh, yes. Where? Who? Just to know. Since an understanding of the byzantine nature of French politics and society is germane to understanding the nuances ...