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For the first months after its deployment, the
Walloon Legion was deployed in "minor mopping-up operations" behind the Eastern Front from November 1941. One of the Russian émigrés who served in the Legion, Rostislav Zavadskii, at the end of November wrote in his diary about the shootings of civilians
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Altogether, between 7,000 and 8,000 men served in the
Walloon Legion between 1941 and 1944, slightly less than the number of Flemish who served in comparable formations. Some 1,337 were killed, representing about a fifth of its total strength. However, its maximum field strength had never exceeded
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Survivors of the Legion were sentenced to death after the war, although this was only carried out against the officers and holders of the
Knights Cross. The enlisted ranks were let off with 10 to 20 years imprisonment and re-education and training classes between 1946 and 1951. It was reported in
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The high attrition rate within the
Walloon Legion required increasing focus on recruitment. The age requirements for volunteers were loosened in early 1942. A second recruitment drive was started in February 1942, recruiting 450 new volunteers of whom many came from Rex's small Rexist Youth
324:). Degrelle himself enlisted and increasingly saw the unit as a more important political vehicle than the Rexist Party. It participated in fighting on the Eastern Front from February 1942 but struggled to find sufficient recruits in Belgium to replace its persistently heavy losses.
632:). A third "frantic" campaign in November 1942 raised a further 1,700 men. These recruitment drives weakened many Rexist institutions by diverting manpower away from projects in Belgium. At the same time, it failed to secure more than 140 recruits from among the thousands of
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In order to acquire more influence and German support, Rex attempted to bring itself closer to the occupation authorities. On 1 January 1941, Degrelle announced Rex's total support for the occupation authorities and for the policy of collaborationism. After the
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in April 1944. Ahead of its return, largely to encourage more enlistments, the unit was even loaned armoured vehicles by other German units to make it seem more prestigious. Following
Lippert's death, Degrelle was promoted to rank of
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in June 1944, also suffering heavy losses. Degrelle, however, was widely celebrated for his role in the battle at
Cherkassy, becoming "the poster boy for all European collaborators" and being featured in Wehrmacht's
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on 22 June 1941, it embraced the idea of raising a military unit, seen as "a political opportunity to increase the importance of their movements and eliminate political competition". At the same time, the
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February 1944 and suffered 70 percent casualties. By the end of the engagement, the effective strength of the unit had been reduced from 2,000 to 632. Among those killed was the unit's commander
484:. This move, combined with the Germans' favourable stance towards the VNV, meant that it would not be possible to realise Rex's preferred option of a national "Belgian Legion" on the Eastern Front.
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688:). As part of the transfer, the links between the unit and Rex were cut. The pre-existing structure of welfare organisations set up by Rex in German-occupied Belgium such as Legionary Solidarity (
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In late 1942, Himmler declared the
Walloons to be a Germanic race, paving the way for the unit's incorporation into the Waffen-SS on 1 June 1943. The Walloon Legion was re-organised into a
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in which it received 11.5 percent of the national vote. In spite of this, the party experienced a rapid decline in the years before the German invasion and polled below five percent in the
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and others being classed as medically unfit; almost a third of the volunteers were repatriated before
October 1941. Over the winter of 1941–1942, it participated in training and
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units did the killing, one
Walloon legionary also took part, with Belgian officers and soldiers standing by to watch and taking photographs. The Legion was then attached to the
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in June 1944 and began to advance rapidly towards Belgium. On the Eastern Front, the brigade was hurriedly redeployed in July from its temporary camp in
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on 5 February. By the end of the month, it had been reduced to only 700 men and was thrown into a costly attack on the Russian bridgehead at the
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in September 1944 as Belgian, French, and Spanish collaborators were drafted into the unit. It was upgraded to the notional status of a
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but was not given any tangible orders and fled to Norway. The surviving personnel of the division surrendered to the British Army at
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magazine. The remnants of the unit returned to Belgium where parades were held in
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SS-Sturmbannführer Lucien Lippert (April 1942 – 13 February 1944)
1430:] (in French). Brussels: André Versaille. pp. 243–245.
793:, NSKK). The new 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Wallonia (
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1095:Zavadskii, Rostislav V. (2014). Beyda, Oleg (ed.).
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411:. It achieved some early success, peaking in the
339:in February 1944. It expanded slightly after the
293:alongside similar formations from other parts of
1574:de Bruyne, Eddy & Rikmenspoel, Marc (2004).
891:, he remained in exile until his death in 1994.
848:Captain Pierre Pauly (January 1942 – March 1942)
795:28. SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division Wallonien
655:Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
649:and received numerous decorations including the
608:near Donetsk on 28 February 1942 as part of the
499:, the Walloon Legion was established within the
511:were not considered sufficiently "Germanic" by
442:Recruitment poster for the Walloon Legion from
1688:Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism
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1428:Dictionary of the Second World War in Belgium
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261:"Wallonia Legion") was a unit of the
131:7,000–8,000 troops (total, 1941–1945)
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1525:Wouters, Nico (2018). "Belgium". In
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1952:were officially named "volunteer".
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1396:Bailly, Michel (29 February 1992).
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461:German invasion of the Soviet Union
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166:Anti-Partisan operations in Ukraine
1578:. Solihull: Helion & Company.
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1698:Volunteer Legion Netherlands
1483:MĂĽller, Rolf-Dieter (2012).
1371:MĂĽller, Rolf-Dieter (2012).
701:Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive
341:Allied Liberation of Belgium
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365:German invasion in May 1940
329:SS Assault Brigade Wallonia
310:German invasion of May 1940
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661:In the Waffen-SS, 1943–45
587:In the Wehrmacht, 1941–43
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709:Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket
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337:Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket
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171:Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket
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1593:Horn, Stephan (2021).
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602:100th Jäger Division
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857:SS-SturmbannfĂĽhrer
757:The Western Allies
568:security operations
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448:Belgian nationalist
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941:Belgian Resistance
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