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Hi Sid, So I dug a bit and got some sort of conclusions, but they are opened to criticism and complements. First, one cannot compare the recruitment of the German army before the beginning of the war and the one of the Petain army. On the German side, young and creative officers were attracted by a ...

Hi Sid,
Congratulations.
You got me.
I dunno

But the topic is of interest, let me dig a bit and I will be back

From your quotes of this book, it is clear to me that the author is among those people who are trying to convince us that beside a handful of criminals, the whole pro-German forces were composed of heroes fighting for the just cause of anti-bolchevism. Sorry, they won't convince me.... Now, concerni...

I respect your sentiments, but the hard true is that De Gaulle jumped at the last minute, under the astonished eyes of his compatriots, on a British plane, and broadcast a speech no one listened. No. First, there were no “astonished compatriots eyes” to see him boarding the plane of General Spears ...

Also some background was given on the Franc-Garde of the Milice, sympathetic though it may be. Sympathetic? The Franc Garde? I opened my dictionary to make sure before replying! While many former French Waffen SS, LVF, NSKK, etc... went through the liberation with no or limited hassles (Few years i...

Hi derG and Reb, From this side of the pond, it is difficult to believe that an educated society can put any electoral faith in figures like Buchanon OR Robertson. They seem like something out of the late Middle Ages. Our nearest equivalent is the self-ordained Rev. Ian Paisley in Northern Ireland....

From the little I know, it seems that there were a bit of difference between the German Waffen SS and the foreign volunteers. Obviously, the German Waffen SS were, at least at the beginning, real National-Socialist, fighting the Communists being only a part of the story. I said "at the beginnin...

Ooops, sorry Sid. British, well noted. What means "mainstream"? Are we supposed here to only consider the military action of the largest armies? Many tiny units fought beside the German troops, from Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Croatia, France, Spain, Norway, etc... Small number at the Stali...

However, I am familiar with the subject and it does not strike me that the fate of 300 French W-SS men in Berlin is main stream military history. Except if the reader is French or of French ancestry :D However, the book is about the 7,000 French Waffen SS, not only the last days in Berlin. Talking ...

Hi Laurent, His military ideas were not adopted even in France Sid. Just try to follow my sci-fi scenario: Thanks to the strong support of the Chief Of Staff Petain, De Gaulle views were approved in 1928 by the French politicians. In June 40, the Panzers would ave been facing an equivalent force of...

Hi Sid, My Gallic roster feathers standing up :evil: I am replying to you Hey, frog, cool down... OK. Better now :D Charles de Gaulle published 4 books between 1924 and 1938: La discorde chez l'ennemi Le Fil de l'epee Vers l'armee de metier La France et son armee Plus several surveys and editorials ...

Hi Sid, Your reply caught my attention, I don't know anything about that book. So I googled a bit and found that about the book content: "The formation of the French Division of the Waffen-SS called 'Charlemagne', including brief histories of its main component parts, namely the LVF and Milice ...

Hi everybody, I have a strong belief: The German invasion of France was successful in a short period of time because the French Army was lead by high level officers who were incapable to adapt it to modern warfare, themselves placed at those key posts by politicians unable to foresee the tactical ch...

Hi Gelber, Interesting information there. It seems you were at the right time in the right place to get a lot of information without being yourself "directly" involved, i.e. a priviledged situation to go deep in the why and how. Thanks to be there and please keep on. Nobody will ever know ...

Hi Haen, I don't know it all (Good, otherwise life would be boring), but I read here and there stories about the German state paying pension to "some" WW2 veterans. So, from your post, I concludes that you are not among the "some". Is it because you live in the US and never appli...