Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS
Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS At the very beginning of the Second World War Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. By the end of the war thousands had volunteered. Yet less than a year later some of…
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Voices of the Flemish Waffen-SS
At the very beginning of the Second World War Germany invaded and occupied Belgium. By the end of the war thousands had volunteered. Yet less than a year later some of Belgium's citizens volunteered to join the Waffen-SS and go and fight on the newly formed Eastern Front against Stalin's Soviet Union.
This book is about the war they fought in their own words, the very few who remain, the last testament before they are all gone. Casualties were high, but there were survivors and they returned home, often to face condemnation and retribution. The motivations of these men were complex: the Flemings have their own culture and identity and some longed for a state independent of French-speaking Belgium.
Some volunteered through a deep hatred of communism, often fuelled by their Catholic faith. Some, of course, were simply persuaded by Hitler's vision of a new world order. The Flemish
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