Another Englishman of the LSSAH, Thomas Haller Cooper. I retrieved the following information from the long out-of-print book
The Meaning of Treason (1947) by Rebecca West. Not exactly a beautifully written work and a little heavy on the anti-German rants, but interesting as a very early examination of the British Free Corps, John Amery and William Joyce. Cooper, so it says, was half-German, half-British, raised in England.
When he was nineteen his mother took him back to Germany, as a woman taking her child to present him at the temple, herself returning to London. The year was 1939. A short time after the war broke out he joined the Adolf Hitler Division of the Waffen SS, and served in Poland, and then in Russia, where he was wounded. When he was convalescent he was recalled to do traitor's work, visiting the English prisoner-of-war camps and talking with the prisoners and giving them corrupting literature, and finally was made an N.C.O. in charge of the British Free Corps. At first he enjoyed the work, and many of the members of the B.F.C. liked him. There was probably a real geniality, an honest tenderness, between them. Cooper had come from the Eastern Front, the other had come from years of hunger and confinement; they found themselves well-fed, and could exchange tales of woe in what was their native language, his father's tongue, in a good villa that was more comfortable than was cosy, among the woods, the sweet aromatic German woods.
by PK on 02 Aug 2005 08:57 
