The Symbol of the French Volunteer Legion
Recruitment poster for the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme (LVF). Highlights the organization’s emblem, which makes use of medievalist iconography in a nod to France’s rich feudal and martial history.
The LVF was a military unit comprised of Frenchmen who fought alongside the Germans to defend Europe against Bolshevism as the 638th Infantry Regiment within the Wehrmacht. It was later redesignated the Waffen-SS ‘Charlemagne’ Brigade, named after the legendary Frankish King Charlemagne. The LVF originated as an independent initiative by a coalition of various far-right factions in Vichy France who were disillusioned with the liberalism of the French Third Republic.
The ‘Charlemagne’ brigade would go on to distinguish itself in the Battle of Berlin, where it remained as one of the last units fending off the insurmountable Soviet onslaught. In a dramatic demonstration of gallantry worthy of their namesake, the Charlemagne Brigade would make a valiant last stand at the Reich Chancellery, where it’s members would destroy 108 Soviet tanks in the process. Indeed, the last defenders in the area of Hitler’s Führerbunker complex were to be none other than these band of patriotic Frenchmen.
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Recruitment poster for the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme (LVF). Highlights the organization’s emblem, which makes use of medievalist iconography in a nod to France’s rich feudal and martial history.
The LVF was a military unit comprised of Frenchmen who fought alongside the Germans to defend Europe against Bolshevism as the 638th Infantry Regiment within the Wehrmacht. It was later redesignated the Waffen-SS ‘Charlemagne’ Brigade, named after the legendary Frankish King Charlemagne. The LVF originated as an independent initiative by a coalition of various far-right factions in Vichy France who were disillusioned with the liberalism of the French Third Republic.
The ‘Charlemagne’ brigade would go on to distinguish itself in the Battle of Berlin, where it remained as one of the last units fending off the insurmountable Soviet onslaught. In a dramatic demonstration of gallantry worthy of their namesake, the Charlemagne Brigade would make a valiant last stand at the Reich Chancellery, where it’s members would destroy 108 Soviet tanks in the process. Indeed, the last defenders in the area of Hitler’s Führerbunker complex were to be none other than these band of patriotic Frenchmen.
