[Above: November 1941]

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[Above: November 1941]

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[Above: Note the French tri-color shield on the side of his stahlhelm (helmet)]

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[Above: New recruits for the Legion of French Volunteers]

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[Above: This recruiting station is in Marseille, circa 1942.]

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[Above: An operator of the Legion of French volunteers somewhere on the Eastern Front, circa 1943.]

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[Above: French volunteers of the LVF conversing with their Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe comrades. Strange and glorious to see, for the first time--German and French men fighting together...]

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[Above: French volunteers of the Waffen-SS 'Franzosische SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Regiment'. Circa 1943.]

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[Above: French volunteers of the Waffen-SS 'Franzosische SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Regiment'. Circa 1943.]

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[Above: LVF award ceremony. Circa 1943.]

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[Above: LVF award ceremony. Circa August 1943.]

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[Above: Check out the homemade/handwritten armband on this soldier!.]

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[Above: A united Europe. In Dresden, Germany, French Waffen-SS volunteers meets their Walloonian and Croatian counterparts.]

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[Above: An LVF soldier and civilians somewhere in Russia...]

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[Above: The 'Infantry-Regiment 638 Französischer' near Moscow.]

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[Above: This is from a Greek version of Signal Magazine, dated April 1943.
It says: 'SHE IS ALLOWED TO KEEP HER FURNITURE.
Whenever possible, residents were allowed to keep the furniture of their evacuated houses. The police safeguards the area to dissuade possible lootings.'

(The article in which the picture is featured refers to a police operation in the French city Marseille).]

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[Above & below: German soldiers help French farmers plough their fields with the use of Renault UE armored tractors. The UE was built for the French Army to tow anti-tank guns. The Wehrmacht used it in the same role and for various other activities, including this one. France, 1941.]

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[Above: A curious little French girl examines a German soldier in France, June 1940.]

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[Above: Somewhere in Russia, November 1941. Courtesy of the Bundesarchiv.]

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[Above: Somewhere in Russia, November 1941. Courtesy of the Bundesarchiv.]

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[Above: Somewhere in Russia, November 1941. Courtesy of the Bundesarchiv.]

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[Above: A French Waffen-SS volunteer in France, Oktober 1943.]

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[Above: A French SS-Schütze (Private) from the 8. Französische SS-Freiwilligen Sturmbrigade (Brigade Frankreich) sometime in 1944.]

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[Above: French Waffen-SS in August 1943.]

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[Above: French Waffen-SS on New Years Eve 1943-1944.]

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[Above: The Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism Congress.]

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[Above: The Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism Congress.]

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[Above: A French Waffen-SS grave marker of four men who gave all for Europe:
Paul Briffault.
Robert Stoffart.
Raymond Payras.
Sergey Krottoff.]

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[Above: Waffen-SS recruiting center in Calais, Northern France, photographed shortly after occupation of the the Allies.]

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[Above: A page from Signal Magazine.]

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[Above: A page from Signal Magazine.]