Interesting, never heard of this - do you know how many estonians that served in LAH, and do you perhaps have the names of them?eesti leegion wrote:also i know,that several estoniaś served in Lah.
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PK
non germans in LSSAH division 1939-1945
He appeared in "Vlaanderen in Uniform" part 7. He doesn't appear in the lists of Flemish vollunteers studied at the SS-Junkerschule Tölz in "Vlaanderen in Uniform" part 6.Timo Worst wrote:What is your source that he was? He isn't listed by Lehmann/Tiemann and his name does not appear in the Führerliste. This doesn't mean it's incorrect because the Führerliste in incomplete, but it does raise some doubt.
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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.
I found out that SS-Obersturmführer Simon de Groot from Antwerp (Flanders) served within the 1. SS-Panzer-Division «Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler», has somebody some more information about him?
And SS-Untersturmführer Ludwig Ooms served within the 11. Kompanie/SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 1 in December 1944 (Ardennes Offensive?), has somebody some more information about him too?
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Michael
And SS-Untersturmführer Ludwig Ooms served within the 11. Kompanie/SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 1 in December 1944 (Ardennes Offensive?), has somebody some more information about him too?
Thanks!
Michael