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Which nationality was this Freiwillige?
Your nickname is French. If this Freiwillige was French or Belgian, post it, I can give you few usufull contacts

Time is passing.
Time is flying.
The number of witnesses is shrinking.
Every year.
Every month.
Every minute.
At least, we, younger chaps, will have had the opportunity to meet some of them.
And, if we can, to become guardians of their memories for the next generations.
Thanks, Rudi.

Simply try to contact the webmaster of this site, Garreth Collins or the others, they must have got those info on your great-uncle form "somewhere".

Tell us more, there may be people here around able to help:
Name, unit, dates, whatever.
Try also to Google as much as you can about Flemmish Waffen SS (He was a Waffen SS, not a SS)

My uncle was a prisoner in France after WWII. Conditions were not very good.He said they were given the choice of----five years in the Legion or an indefinite prison term. Many single men took this option. The prison term wound up being about the same as the enlistment. Georg Reading on, the book d...

I just remebered. Some elzasiens were even implicated in oradour sur glaine massacre. Again i saw this on t.v. so i'm not totally sure. I believe they were forced to join up, but i don't know the details. So they wouldn't even have to have been german or in the foreign legion. Those Alsacians where...