Flemish Legion

Herr

as you are interested as well in the Kriegsmarine and I have not looked into this but any Flems or Belgians volunteer for KM service as well as wearing the respective colours on the sleeve ? again I have not searched into this which would be quite interesting if indeed true ... ~

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Hello Erich

Yes there were Flemings, aswell as many other foreign volunteers in the Kriegsmarine.
The Flemish lion shield however, was not worn, as any other nationality shield I read in the Kriegsmarine.

Here are some posters :

The Flemish Legion - Langemarck » Blog Archive » Flemish Kriegsmarine poster

The Flemish Legion - Langemarck » Blog Archive » Flemish Kriegsmarine poster

Roughly between 200-300 Flemings were in the Kriegsmarine.

All I know

cheers

Herr

 

thumbs up herr thanks for a look at the posters covering the Flems. yes I thought so....not one countries volunteer shield worn on the sleeves of the white/blue KM tunics in comparison to the Heer and W-SS

 

no worries Erich, I found a Flemish forum with quite some details of Flemish Kriegsmarine volunteers in it, but it has been taken offline recently and I didnt save the info GRRRRrrr
I did read there , I think, that some serbs wore unofficially their shield.

The only other organization I can think off that wore the lion patch was the NSKK.

Cheers

Herr

PS more goodies as posted coming soon, and am still waiting for that pic of the Scharnhorst tally

 

Probably pre WWII but this is a Flemish isignia for Flemish pilgrims to Lourdes (mostly army and pathfinders , usually from conservative families)

 

i suppose we only have an idea as to why the majority of individuals joined the foreign ss, each one would have had their own reason.
i wonder how many would have offered the uniform as an explanation?

 

Vlaams Legioen - Vlaamse Oostfronters - Legioen Vlaanderen

 

the video is censored for me.....

 

The video: YouTube - Vlaamse Waffen-SS Vrijwilligers