Nearly 60 years after the end of the Second World War, the name "Degrelle" remains controversial in Belgium and abroad. Was he a traitor to his nation, or a hero for anti-Communism? Until recently, the only information available on the man and his political movement came from Degrelle's own memoirs, or from works heavily slanted for or against him.

Eddy De Bruyne, specialist in WWII Walloon Military Collaboration, has devoted over 20 years to intensively studying the available documentation, as well as interviewing the surviving collaborators of that era, including Degrelle himself. De Bruyne's findings, set down in several French language publications, represent the most detailed studies of Walloon political and military collaboration yet assembled. Now, with the aid of American Waffen-SS researcher Marc Rikmenspoel, De Bruyne has combined his works into a single English language book.

The greatest portion of the book is devoted to the most comprehensive account of the campaigns of the Legion Wallonie and its successor SS-Sturmbrigade/Division Wallonien (28th SS Panzergrenadier Division) yet seen in English.

The text is supported by approximately 400 period photos, complemented by many maps and illustrations of contemporary posters and other ephemera, completing a package that will be a must-have for military historians, afficianados of rare photos, and collectors of materials on the SS.

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Foreword
• Part I: Political, Intellectual & Cultural Collaboration in Wallonia 1940–44
  • Chapter I: Pre-War Walloon Fascist Movements
    • A. The Légion Nationale
    • B. The Rex Movement
      • 1. Léon Degrelle
      • 2. 1940
      • 3. 1941
      • 4. 1942
      • 5. 1943
      • 6. 1944
      • 7. 1945
      • 8. The Feminine Section of the Rex Movement
  • Chapter II: Rex-controlled Organizations
    • The Rex Militia
    • A. The Pre-war period
      • 1. The Order and Security Service
    • B. The War-time period
      • 1. The Formations de Combat – F.C.
      • 2. The Garde Wallonne – G.W.
      • 3. The NSKK
      • 4. The Voluntary Labour Service in Wallonia
        • a. Preliminaries
        • b. Organization of the RWAD
  • Chapter III: Rexist Youth Movements
    • A. The Jeunesse Rexiste
    • B. The Jeunesse Légionnaire
    • C. The JL controlled organizations
      • 1. Germanic Camps
      • 2. Kinderlandverschickung
      • 3. The Agricultural Labour Service -Landdienst
      • 4. The Apprenticeship Centre
  • Chapter IV: Rexist Social and Welfare Organizations
    • A. The People’s Welfare
    • B. The Social Services of the Légion Wallonie
  • Chapter V: Non-Rexist New Order Youth Movements
    • A. The Roman Youth
    • B. The Walloon Youth
    • C. The Students’ New Order Movements
      • 1. The AEGW
      • 2. The Walloon Students’ Youth
      • 3. The Association of Walloon Students
  • Chapter VI: Rex-opposed Collaborating Movements
    • A. The AGRA – The Friends of the Greater German Reich
    • B. The AGRA Youth Movement
    • C. The AGRA-controlled NSKK
    • D. The Cercle Wallon and Maisons Wallonnes
  • Chapter VII: Rexist Dissident Movements
    • A. The Walloon National Popular Movement
    • B. The League of the People’s Defence
  • Chapter VIII: Rex-related Movements
    • A. The Walloon Cultural Community
  • Chapter IX: Governmental Organizations
    • Introduction
    • A. The Secours d’Hiver
    • B. The Union of Manual and Intellectual Workers
    • C. The National Corporation of Agriculture and Alimentation
    • D. The National Office of Goods
    • E. The National Work Office and Employment Agencies
    • F. The Rural Guard
  • Chapter X: Auxiliary Police Forces
    • A. The Zivilfahndungsdienst
    • B. The Ermittlungsdienst
    • C. The Formation B
    • D. The D.S.I. – Security and Intelligence Department
  • Chapter XI: The Anti-Freemason League
  • Chapter XII: Belgian German-speaking Pro-Nazi Groupings
    • A. The Heimattreue Front
    • B. The German Language Association
  • Chapter XIII: Flemish Pro-Nazi Groupings in Wallonia
    • A. The Algemeene SS
    • B. The Vlaams Nationaal Verbond – VNV
  • Chapter XIV: The German Military Administration
    • A. The Military Administration
    • B. The Feldgendarmerie.
    • C. The Geheime Feldpolizei – G.F.P.
    • D. The Sipo-Sd
    • E. The Abwehr
  • Chapter XV: German Services
    • A. The Auslands-Organisation – A.O.
    • B. The Volksdeutsche Bewegung – VdB
    • C. The Deutsches Rotes Kreuz – DRK
    • D. The Organisation Todt – OT
    • E. The Lebensborn
    • F. The Economic Investigation Service
    • G. The Dienststelle Rosenberg Belgien
    • H. The Dienststelle Jungclaus
    • I. The Ahnenerbe – Germanische Wissenschafteinsatz Flandern u. Wallonien
    • J. Ersatzkommando Flandern u. Wallonien der Waffen-SS
    • K. The Kommandostab Z
  • Chapter XVI: Hitler-Jugend Sections in Wallonia
  • Chapter XVII: Final Assessment
• Part II: Military Collaboration in Wallonia 1940–45:Légion Wallonie, 5th Assault Brigade, 28th‘Wallonien’ Division
  • Chapter XVIII: The Wehrmacht Period
    • Preliminaries
    • A. The Légion Wallonie
      • 1. Introduction 92
    • B. Departure for the front
    • C. Gromowaja-Balka (February 1942)
      • 1. General situation at the front
      • 2. Walloon intervention
    • D. Isjum (May-June 1942)
      • 1. Nowo-Jablenskaja (May 1942)
      • 2. Spaschowska (June 1942)
    • E. The Vormarsch (June-August 1942)
    • F. The Caucasus campaign (August-November 1942)
  • Chapter XIX: The Waffen-SS Period
    • A. Transfer to the Waffen-SS (June 1943)
      • 1. Tactical organization
      • 2. Order of battle
      • 3. General enrolment terms
    • B. The Cherkassy campaign (November 1943 – February 1944)
      • 1. General situation
      • 2. The Olschanka River front-line
      • 3. Teklino
      • 4. The Encirclement
      • 5. Novo Buda
    • C. The Cherkassy impact
    • D. The Estonian campaign (August 1944)
      • 1. General military situation
      • 2. Internal situation of the 5. Frw. Sturmbigade Wallonien
    • E. Command crisis
  • Chapter XX: The Last Months of the War
    • A. Establishment of the 28. SS-Frw. Gr. Div. Wallonien
      • 1. Preliminaries
      • 2. Order of Battle
    • B. A SS-West Corps for Degrelle?
    • C. Obscure Walloon formations
      • 1. Preliminaries
      • 2. Jagdkommando Wallonien
      • 3. Sonderkommando Wallonien
      • 4. Epilogue
    • D. The von Rundstedt offensive
    • E. Degrelle’s Spanish volunteers
      • 1. Epilogue
    • F. The Pomeranian Campaign
      • 1. Stargard
      • 2. Altdamm
      • 3. Oder ist Hauptkampflinie – HKL
      • 4. Rearguard battle at Schönwerder
  • Chapter XXI: The Lost Game
    • A. Exit Degrelle
  • Chapter XXII: Epilogue
• Part III: Historical and Critical Analysis of Degrelle’s War-time Years 1940–45
  • Chapter XXIII: The Case of Lucien Lippert, Belgian commander of the Légion Wallonie and the 5.SS-Freiw.Sturmbrigade Wallonien
  • Chapter XXIV: Degrelle’s war-time years in a nutshell
  • Chapter XXV: Military collaboration in WWII, a matter of idealism?
• Appendices
  • I. List of Walloon officers who served in the Légion Wallonie, 5th Assault Brigade and 28th Wallonien Division
  • II. Lineage
  • III. Feldpostnummer
  • IV. German liaison officers
  • V. Catholic Chaplains
  • VI. Special operations
  • VII. Walloon senior officers of military and paramilitary formations
  • VIII. Total recruitment
  • IX. White Russians
  • X. Table of losses
  • XI. List of Close Combat days
  • XII. Commanding officers of the Légion Wallonie, 5th Assault Brigade and 28th Wallonien Division
  • XIII. The Ers. Btl. 36
  • XIV. Battle force Wall. Inf. Btl. 373 on 1 November 1942
  • XV. Members of Belgian nobility within the Légion Wallonie 232
  • XVI. Exceptional promotions
  • XVII. Military Academies
  • XVIII. Battle force, Pomeranian campaign (05.02.1945 – 27.04.45) 235
  • XIX. Contingents of the Légion Wallonie/Assault Brigade/Brigade Brigade from Belgium
  • XX. German liaison staff officers
  • XXI. Regalia
  • XXII. Forced enrolment into the 28. SS-Frw. Gr. Div. Wallonien and use of the Burgundy collar-patch
  • XXIII. Full Strength Order of Battle of the 28. SS-Frw. Gren. Div. Wallonien, February 1945
  • XXIV. Document Degrelle in the matter J. Mathieu
  • XXV. Documents in the matter J. Leroy
  • XXVI. Degrelle’s last will (March 1945)
  • XXVII. Propaganda material
    • 1. Pre-war period
    • 2. Wehrmacht period
    • 3. Waffen-SS period
    • 4. Post-war period
  • XXVIII. The Legionnaires
  • XXIX. Documents
  • XXX. Walloon veterans
• Notes
• Bibliography
• List of Authors’ Publications
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