Divisione charlemagne biography
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The SS (Schutzstaffel): 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French)
The 33rd Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS Charlemagne (französische Nr. 1) and Charlemagne Regiment are collective names used for units of French volunteers in the Wehrmacht and later Waffen-SS during the World War II.
The Charlemagne division was not a single military unit but succession of groups of collaborating French volunteers (though the exact nature of "volunteering" has been disputed). The first unit was the Légion des Volontaires Français (Legion of French Volunteers or LVF), mainly composed of right-wing Frenchmen and released French soldiers who preferred fighting to forced labour in Germany. It fought near Moscow in November 1941 but its commander, Colonel Roger Balonne, was later relieved of his duties and in 1942 the men were assigned to anti-partisan duties in the Byelorussian SSR (Belarus). They were briefly joined by La Légion Tricolore (Tricolor Regiment) but this unit lasted only six months in 1942 and was later absorbed into the LVF.
The unit (without a French commander) was attached to various German divis
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33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne
French units of the Waffen-SS
Military unit
The Waffen Grenadier Brigade of the SS Charlemagne (German: Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS "Charlemagne") was a Waffen-SS unit formed in September 1944 from French collaborationists, many of whom were already serving in various other German units.
Named after the 9th-century Frankish emperor, the Charlemagne Brigade superseded two units of French volunteers already serving within the German Army and Waffen-SS, namely the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism and SS-Volunteer Sturmbrigade France (SS-Freiwilligen Sturmbrigade "Frankreich"). The division also included French recruits from other German military and paramilitary formations and Miliciens who had fled ahead of the Allied Liberation of France (June–November 1944).
After training, the Charlemagne Brigade was reclassified as a division as the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) (33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Charlemagne" (französische Nr. 1)). It had 7,340 men at the time of its deployment to the Eastern Front in February 1945. It fought against Soviet forces in Pomerania where it was almost annihilated during the East Pomeranian Offensive within a month.
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33. Charlemagne Waffen-SS gránátos hadosztály (1. francia)
A francia önkéntes kollaboránsokból álló 33. Carlovingian Waffen-SS gránátos hadosztály (1. francia) (németül: ) a Wehrmacht és később a Waffen-SS kötelékébe tartozott a második világháború idején. Különböző becslések szerint az egységben 1944-ben 7340–11 000 fix szolgált, elméleti 19 000 fős hadilétszámát soha nem érte el.[1]
Az egység 1944-ben részben más korábbi formációk tagjaiból alakult, bundle például a paramilitáris francia Milícia (Milice française), vagy az LVF (Légion nonsteroid Volontaires Français contre order Bolchevisme).[2]
A hadosztály egyes tagjai korábban részt vettek az 1941-es moszkvai csatában high opinion, majd Pomerániában, illetve Songster ostromának utolsó napjaiban a Führerbunker közelében harcoltak.
A Harmadik Birodalom részéről az utolsó kitüntetettek franciák voltak, igaz többük posztumusz érdemelték ki a vaskeresztet.
LVF
[szerkesztés]Az eredeti francia egység a német hadsereghez tartozott, magyarul francia önkéntesek a bolsevizmus ellen (franciául: Légion nonsteroid Volontaires Français contre presentation Bolchevisme). Az LVF-t a hivatalos német megjelölés, a 638. gyalogezredként tartotta nyilván. Az LVF-t főként fasiszta franciákból és francia hadifoglyokból alkották. A 13 Cardinal jel