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	33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Charlemagne division was formed in 1944 from an amalgam of troops serving in other French units of the German armed forces, as well as from the paramilitary Franc-Garde of the Milice.
		The Charlemagne Division was sent to fight the Red Army in Poland, but on February 25 it was attacked while deploying from the railhead at Hammerstein in Pomerania by troops of the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front.
		André Lamy, SS-Rottenführer of the Charlemagne Division, was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class on March 15, 1945, for his defense of Western Pomerania against the Red Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charlemagne_Division (1685 words)

	33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French)
		The 33rd Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS Charlemagne (französische Nr.
		In September 1944 this unit was renamed Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS Charlemagne, with the addition of French collaborators fleeing the Allied advance in the west, as well as Frenchmen from the Horst Wessel brigade and Organisation Todt.
		The division was sent by train to fight against the Red Army in Poland, but on 25 February it was attacked while deploying from the railhead by troops of the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front and was broken into three battlegroups.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/33rdwaffendiv.html (517 words)

	Waffen
		SS commanders realized that the basics of Nazi ideology, repeatedly drilled into the recruit, were vital in making their troops fight harder.
		An SS Haupsturmführer recalling the ‘sheer beauty’ of the fighting in Russia in 1942, stated ‘it was well worth the dreadful suffering, after a time we got to the point where we were concerned not for ourselves, or even Germany, but lived entirely for the next clash’.
		Cases such as this have been overshadowed by the heroic reputation of a minority of SS divisions, most of which could trace their origins back to the pre-war SS, again emphasising the importance of the men who were trained before 1939 and who made up the leadership cadres of the early divisions.
	www.ehistory.freeservers.com /vol2/Waffen.htm (10768 words)

	"AXIS & LEGION MILITARIA" - Axis & Legion Militaria
		This division was engaged at Mielec in the bend of the Vistula Front.
		The Division was attached to the German XVIII Gebirgs-Korps of the 2nd Army, commanded by General Houchbaum, which was part of Army Group Vistula in Pomerania.
		By the 5-7 March 1945, the remnants of the Charlemagne Division was already surrounded by strong Russian forces at Körlin.
	axis101.bizland.com /Charlemagne1.htm (1771 words)

	"AXIS & LEGION MILITARIA" - Axis & Legion Militaria
		The Nordland Regiment was primarily composed of Danes and Norwegians.
		By mid-September, the SS Division Nordland was deployed to northern Croatia in the Sisak-Petrinja region where it was engaged in anti-Partisan activities.
		SS Panzer Corps had begun moving into the Narva bridgehead area with the forces of the 47th, 2nd Storm and 8th Soviet Armies right on their heels.
	axis101.bizland.com /Nordland1.htm (1524 words)

	New York Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After bizarrely lamenting that he was born too late to join the Waffen SS Charlemagne Division (erroneously labeled an "anticommunist unit"), Taki treats the reader to a crude lesson in sedition law: Perfidious Albion hanged Lord Haw-Haw on the basis that he had a British passport, ergo he was a traitor.
		Politically correct or not, it was a Division of the Waffen SS and swore fidelity to Adolf Hitler.
		Joining a brutal SS unit, fighting for Hitler’s totalitarianism against Stalin’s brand, is hardly moral and not even understandable in context (I refer to Ukrainian and other Eastern Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht volunteers, who could point to the Soviet purges and massacres of their peoples as a reason).
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=5651 (6392 words)

	The European Volunteer Movement in World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With grim determination the Latvian 15th and 19th SS Divisions fought the communists for every square foot of their homeland, while in the Carpathian Mountains, the Ukranian Volunteer Division was reassembled.
		This was not the case in regard to both the 29th Italian SS Division and the 34th Dutch SS Division "Landstorm Nederland." The Italian SS troops fought both the Americans and the rear area communist partisans, and they distinguished themselves as perhaps the best troops that Italy produced during the war.
		The Belgian and French SS Divisions were brought up to strength in the fall of 1944 from among the many refugees that had fled to Germany plus veterans of the war with Russia.
	library.flawlesslogic.com /euro_2.htm (4101 words)

	Pravda.RU:Ten European Years
		Early European emperor, Charlemagne, in the ninth century, also thought about uniting Europe, but primarily as a shield to fend off the looming Arab threat coming from the Mediterranean basin, and as a common rampart against incursions of Asian hordes into the Panonian plains of central Europe.
		On May 3, 1945 in the late evening hours, accompanied by gusty winds, around 300 hundred French Waffen SS soldiers side by side with a handful of Latvian and Hungarian SS troopers defended Berlin along the left bank of the Spree river on fire, against the incoming Soviet tanks.
		These were the remnants of the French Waffen SS division Charlemagne.
	newsfromrussia.com /columnists/2003/01/15/42070_.html (1217 words)

	New Order
		The French volunteers fought alongside the soldiers of the 18th SS Division "Horst Wessel" and proved their mettle in several fierce engagements which caused devastating casualties.
		In February/March 1945, the "Charlemagne" Division was thrown into action on the Pomeranian Front in a desperate effort to slow down the onslaught of the advancing Red Army.
		In early March the French SS division was surrounded by the Soviets and splintered into fragments.
	www.theneworder.org /commentary/fenet.htm (746 words)

	Newsletter No 295
		It appeared that the entire division was about to be annihilated for there was way to supply the division with the necessary supplies or replacements.
		.Division to be transferred via rail to the Hungarian front in order to stem he relentless advance of the Soviet forces in that region.
		The highest ranking SS man on the scene decided to concentrate the Americans on a large meadow and to have them guarded by a handful of young soldiers manning one machine gun.
	www.adelaideinstitute.org /newsletters/n295.htm (8010 words)

	33.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS Charlemagne (französische Nr.1)
		The 33.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS Charlemagne (französische Nr.1) was officially formed on February 2nd, 1945 in West Prussia from the Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS Charlemagne.
		In fact, the Division had been forming practically since the time the Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade it was offically formed from was itself formed.
		On the 25th of February 1945, as the train-borne elements of the 33.Waffen-Gren.Div.der SS Charlemagne (seconded to Heeresgruppe Weichsel), pulled into the railhead at Hammerstein in Pomerania, armored spearheads of the Soviet 1st Belorussian front unexpectedly smashed into the division at its most vulnerable moment.
	www.feldgrau.com /33ss.html (852 words)

	FRENCH VOLUNTEERS
		Waffen-Grenadier Division der SS Charlemagne had its beginnings as a French volunteer force in the German Army, which saw action during the Battles for Moscow.
		The new division was formed in the winter of 1944/1945.
		The French Waffen SS troops who participated in the Oradon "atrocity" in 1944 were considered "unwilling conscripts" and were thus "victims" of circumstances out of their hands.
	shrike.depaul.edu /~tdetkiew/france.htm (354 words)

	Searchlight Magazine
		Nazis of the French Waffen SS Charlemagne Division and Italian fascists who joined Mussolini’s Salò Republic were forced to cancel a “glorious reunion” last month after protests by anti-fascist organisations and local authority representatives in the Piedmont region of northern Italy.
		The Charlemagne Division was the French unit that implemented the political will of Hitler and defended him up to the last hours before his death, as guards of his Berlin bunker.
		The Italian Waffen SS Division was formed through an agreement between Hitler and Mussolini, who set up the puppet regime in Salò, near Lake Garda, under Nazi command.
	www.searchlightmagazine.com /pages/StoryTemplatePrint.php?story=134 (852 words)

	Waffen-SS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Waffen-SS Panzergrenadiers during the [[Battle of Kursk]] During the early stages of the War on the Eastern Front, the Waffen-SS divisions often proved themselves to a skeptical Heer as crack soldiers, though there were exceptions such as Kampfgruppe Nord's flight from the field in its first engagement.
		In spite of heavy casualties many of the Waffen-SS units retained their reputations as crack formations until the end of the War, though the quality of formations raised late in the War was often execrable, and some of the Freiwillige troops were prone to mutiny.
		While these were conscripts and often lacked any infantry training before being thrown into combat, some SS units exhibited very high morale and comradeship until the very end of the war.
	waffen-ss.iqnaut.net (603 words)

	Ottawa Watch: The Shadowy War
		Ukrainians filled the ranks of some of the most notorious Waffen SS units and staffed the death camps in Poland.
		The maps of occupied Europe are misleading: much of the "occupied" Soviet Union remained contested territory through the war, with many divisions of German soldiers tied down fighting the resistance, and large parts of the occupied territories "no go" areas for the Germans.
		"Ukrainians filled the ranks of some of the most notorious Waffen SS units and staffed the death camps in Poland." Obviously you don't know that only Germans could be members of the SS (something about being Aryan and all that).
	ottawawatch.blogspot.com /2006/10/shadowy-war.html (911 words)

	WWW.WAFFEN-SS.NO "33. Waffen-Kavallreie-Division Der SS "Charlemagne"
		This division was composed of 7340 men and was divided into two regiments.
		The Corps had already two Divisions defending the region, the German 32nd Infantry Pomeranian Division and the 15th Waffen-SS Latvian Division.
		In mid-March all that was left of the division regrouped at Neustrelitz.
	www.waffen-ss.no /33.Charlemagne.htm (769 words)

	German War Memorials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This monument honors the dead of Panzerjäger Abteilung 38 of the 2nd Panzer Division, near Ledward Barracks in Schweinfurt.
		Gedenkstein (Memorial Stone) to the dead of Panzerregiment 35, 4th Panzer Division, on the grounds of Warner Barracks in Bamberg.
		These 12 soldiers (some sources say 11), French volunteers of the 33rd SS Grenadier Division "Charlemagne," had been fighting on the Eastern Front but were in a hospital at the end of the war.
	www.thirdreichruins.com /memorials.htm (2010 words)

	Behind the Headlines
		peaking of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman emperor has become the Eurocratic icon of choice, a fitting symbol of their overarching ambition – but not without some opposition.
		And so it is out with the first philosophers, the founders of the world's first republics – not only Aristotle but the original explicators of natural law theory, the Stoics – and in with the ninth century absolutism of Charlemagne and rule by "divine right." Such are the political uses of history.
		In spite of the Eurocrats' pathetic pretensions, and their highly dubious claim to represent the imperial legacy of Charlemagne, this rising Euro-imperialism is neither Holy nor Roman.
	www.antiwar.com /justin/j013100.html (1804 words)

	Concentration Camps List
		Because the SS rules with absolute power in the area, inside and outside the camps, local civilians are endangered; investigations of local police forbidden by GeStaPo-Linz.
		The SS planned to blast all of them up with high-explosives in the KZ Gusen I and II tunnels along with the local population of St.Georgen and Gusen, to kill any potential witnesses at later trials.
		SS Governer of Czechoslovakia: Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich, The Blond Beast, The Butcher of Prague, Der Henker: the Hangman, assasinated by Czech patriots, Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik in Prague with a bomb in 1942.
	www.tartanplace.com /tartanhistory/concentrationcamps.html (12639 words)

	The "Wallonien": The History of the 5th SS-Sturmbrigade and 28th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The new Sturmbrigade fought on the Dnieper bend and was trapped in the Korsun pocket with another foreign unit of the Waffen-SS, the famed 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking." The military commander of the unit, Obersturmbannführer Lucien Lippert, was killed at Nowo-Buda on 15 February 1944.
		At that time, the Oberkommando had made it the formation center of another SS unit: the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Jugend." Since the Brigade had lost many men and all their material, the "Hitler Jugend" lent some vehicles and soldiers to provide more depth for the parades.
		The first town which received a visit from the unit was Charleroi on 1 April 1944, being the fifth city of Belgium and the third of Wallony; it was supposed to have provided the most courageous men of the Brigade.
	www.merriam-press.com /mono_200/m162-ex.htm (1341 words)

	Hitler and the French Waffen-SS Masterpiece! - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The text states in large letters, "Ich verleihe der französischen Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS den Namen 'Charlemagne'", (I award the French Waffen-SS Grenadier Brigade the name 'Charlemagne') dated "Führerhauptquartier 1.X.1944 "(Führer's Headquarters 1 October 1944).
		About 400 dropped out at that time and were reassigned to an SS construction battalion.
		The remainder, under the command of SS-Brigadeführer Krukenberg were sent into the defense of Berlin on 23/24 April 1945 by order of the Führer.
	www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/showthread.php?p=402258 (781 words)

	The fate of past Waffen SS from all over Europe [Archive] - Military Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For example, France had the 33rd SS Division "Charlemagne"; most were killed, some (the 3 that did) getting the Knight's Cross as late as April the 29th 1945 in Berlin.
		Maybe all SS were higly considered by frenchs, as they used with the Stranger Legion to kill thousand upon thousand innocent peoples in Indocina and Algeria.
		Thomas cooper who had been a member of the SS since the beging of the war, and claimed to have killed hundereds of Jews in Warsaw and russia is somewhere in Japan now.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/archive/index.php/t-8699.html (3780 words)

	French Volunteers of the Waffen-SS
		It would be from these latterly mentioned, unaligned factotums of Vichy, that the third and mostly disparate element of the "Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS "Charlemagne" would be assembled.
		In late 1944, the assorted composite elements of the newly designated French division were assembled for training at Wildflecken, NE of Frankfurt-am-Main.
		der SS "Charlemagne", assigned to Heeresgruppe Weichsel (Army Group Vistula), pulled into the train station at Hammerstein in Pomerania, armored spearheads of the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front unexpectedly smashed into the division at its most vulnerable moment.
	orbat.com /site/sturmvogel/charlemagne.html (1510 words)

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		They were soldiers of the Waffen SS, the elite assault force of the German Army, yet on their sleeves they bore the colors of Denmark and Norway, Sweden and Finland, Holland and Belgium, Flanders and Estonia.
		The Waffen Gebirgs Brigade der SS (Tartar #1)
		The 21 Waffen Gebirgs Division der SS "Skanderbeg" (Albanische Nr 1)
	members.cox.net /psycho1943/Landwehr.html (1233 words)

	Joseph Darnand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He took the SS oath of allegiance to Hitler in October 1943.
		The remnants of the Milice were integrated with the SS Charlemagne Division that guarded Hitler's bunker during final days of the Third Reich.
		Darnand was arrested shortly after the war, tried by the High Court, sentenced to death and executed on October 10, 1945.
	worldatwar.net /biography/d/darnand (234 words)

	New Page 1
		European nations rushed to join National Socialist Germany's Waffen SS divisions.
		SS Charlemagne Division, famous for its spirited defence of the German
		To these brave defenders of Europe can be added the Waffen SS divisions, regiments and units made up of Lithuanian, Estonian and
	www.adelaideinstitute.org /Dissenters/walsh.htm (3644 words)

	Feldgrau :: French Volunteers in the Wehrmacht in WWII
		While the 7th infantry division remains on the front line, the whole 638 regiment is pulled out between the 6 and 9 of December.
		One June 22, 1944, the German front is horribly weakened by the assault of 196 Soviet divisions.
		Founded on July 18, 1933 by Engineer Fritz Todt, genial organizer, the OT (Organization Todt) is in charge of the main infrastructure projects of the third Reich: It started with the German Highway network, revolutionary at that time, then the blockhaus of the Siegfried line in 1938.
	www.feldgrau.com /articles.php?ID=77 (3029 words)

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