With Your Comrades and the SS, You Shall Prevail!
A recruitment poster from occupied France calling on its inhabitants to join the Waffen-SS alongside their European comrades, claiming salvation lay within its ranks. Reads: “Alongside your European comrades and under the symbol of the SS, you shall prevail!”
The Waffen-SS was the elite paramilitary combat branch of Nazi Germany that fielded many divisions composed of foreign European volunteers. This includes French speaking units like the 33rd Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS “Charlemagne” named after the legendary Frankish King Charlemagne, or the 5th SS-Freiwilligen-Sturmbrigade Wallonien formed from Belgium volunteers.
“They died out there, in countless numbers, not for government officials in Berlin, but for their old countries, gilded by the centuries, and for their common fatherland, Europe, the Europe of Virgil and Ronsard, the Europe of Erasmus and Nietzsche, of Raphael and Dürer, the Europe of St. Ignatius and St. Theresa, the Europe of Frederick the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte.” — SS-Standartenführer Leon Degrelle, Commander of the Walloon Legion
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A recruitment poster from occupied France calling on its inhabitants to join the Waffen-SS alongside their European comrades, claiming salvation lay within its ranks. Reads: “Alongside your European comrades and under the symbol of the SS, you shall prevail!”
The Waffen-SS was the elite paramilitary combat branch of Nazi Germany that fielded many divisions composed of foreign European volunteers. This includes French speaking units like the 33rd Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS “Charlemagne” named after the legendary Frankish King Charlemagne, or the 5th SS-Freiwilligen-Sturmbrigade Wallonien formed from Belgium volunteers.
“They died out there, in countless numbers, not for government officials in Berlin, but for their old countries, gilded by the centuries, and for their common fatherland, Europe, the Europe of Virgil and Ronsard, the Europe of Erasmus and Nietzsche, of Raphael and Dürer, the Europe of St. Ignatius and St. Theresa, the Europe of Frederick the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte.” — SS-Standartenführer Leon Degrelle, Commander of the Walloon Legion
