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November 18, 2023

The British Free Corps (German: Britisches Freikorps; BFC) was a unit of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II, made up of British and Dominion prisoners of war who had been recruited by Germany. The unit was originally known as the Legion of St George.[2] Research by British historian Adrian Weale has identified 54 men[1][3] who belonged to this unit at one time or another, some for only a few days. At no time did it reach more than 27 men in strength.[1]

British Free Corps
Armshield
Active1943–1945
Disbanded1945
Allegiance Nazi Germany
Branch Waffen-SS
TypeInfantry
RoleWaffen-SS auxiliary
Size54 (total membership)[1]
27 (maximum strength)

Formation edit

 
Two early recruits to the BFC: Kenneth Berry and Alfred Minchin, with German officers, April 1944

The idea for the British Free Corps came from John Amery, a British fascist, son of the serving British Secretary of State for India, Leo Amery. John Amery travelled to Berlin in October 1942, and proposed to the Germans the formation of a British volunteer force to help fight the Bolsheviks. The British volunteer force was to be modelled after the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchévisme (Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism), a French collaborationist force fighting with the German Wehrmacht. In addition to touting the idea of a British volunteer force, Amery actively tried to recruit Britons. He made a series of pro-German propaganda radio broadcasts, appealing to his fellow countrymen to join the war on communism.

The first recruits to the Corps came from a group of prisoners of war (POWs) at a 'holiday camp' set up by the Germans in Genshagen, a suburb of Berlin, in August 1943.[4] In November 1943, they were moved to a requisitioned café in the Pankow district of Berlin.[5] Recruits also came from an interrogation camp at Luckenwalde in late 1943.[6] The Corps became a military unit on 1 January 1944, under the name 'The British Free Corps'.[7] In the first week of February 1944, the BFC moved to the St Michaeli Kloster in Hildesheim, a small town near Hanover.[8] Uniforms were issued on 20 April 1944 (Hitler's 55th birthday).[9] On 11 October 1944, the Corps was moved to the Waffen-SS Pioneer school in Dresden, to start military training for service on the Eastern Front.[10] On 24 February 1945, they travelled from Dresden to Berlin, where they stayed in a requisitioned school on the Schönhauser Allee.[11] On 8 March 1945, they were moved to the village of Niemegk, a few miles to the south-west of Berlin.[12]

Recruiting for the Free Corps was done in German POW camps. In 1944, leaflets were distributed to the POWs, and the unit was mentioned in Camp, the official POW newspaper published in Berlin. The unit was promoted "as a thoroughly volunteer unit, conceived and created by British subjects from all parts of the Empire who have taken up arms and pledged their lives in the common European struggle against Soviet Russia".

The attempted recruitment of POWs was done amid German fear of the Soviets; the Germans were "victims of their own propaganda" and thought that their enemies were as worried about the Soviets as they were. In one Dutch camp, cigarettes, fruit, and other items were lavished on the POWs while they listened to Nazi propaganda officers who described the good that the Germans were doing in Europe, then asked the men to join in fighting the real enemy, the Soviets.[13]

Commanders edit

The BFC did not have a "commander" per se as it was the intention of the SS to appoint a British commander when a suitable British officer came forward. However, three German Waffen-SS officers acted as the Verbindungsoffizier ("liaison officer") between the SS-Hauptamt Amtsgruppe D/3, which was responsible for the unit and the British volunteers, and in practice they acted as the unit commander for disciplinary purposes at least. These were:

  • SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Werner Roepke: September 1943 – November 1944[14]
  • SS-Obersturmführer Dr Walter Kühlich: November 1944 – April 1945[15]
  • SS-Hauptsturmführer Dr Alexander Dolezalek: April 1945[16]

A number of sources mention the involvement of Brigadier Leonard Parrington, a British Army officer captured by the Germans in Greece in 1941.[17] This was based on a misunderstanding by some of the British volunteers after Parrington in the summer of 1943 had visited the POW "holiday camp" at Genshagen, in the southern suburbs of Berlin, as representative of the Senior British POW, Major General Victor Fortune. Parrington had told the assembled prisoners that he "knew the purpose of the camp"[18] and the BFC volunteers who were there took this to mean that he approved of the unit. In reality, Parrington had accepted Genshagen at face value as a rest centre for POWs.

Members edit

Leading members of the Corps included Thomas Haller Cooper (although he was actually an Unterscharführer in the Waffen-SS proper[19]), Roy Courlander, Edwin Barnard Martin, Frank McLardy, Alfred Minchin and John Wilson – these men "later became known among the renegades as the 'Big Six', although this was a notional elite whose membership shifted periodically as members fell into, and out of, favour."[20]

In 2002, it was claimed that Robert Chipchase, an Australian, was by then the last surviving member of the British Free Corps.[21][22] He commented that he had changed his mind about joining and refused to sign the enlistment papers, spending the rest of the war in a punishment camp.[23]

Preparation for active service edit

In March 1945, a BFC detachment was deployed with the 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland under Brigadeführer Joachim Ziegler, which was composed largely of Scandinavian volunteers and attached to the III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps under Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner. They were first sent from Stettin to the division's headquarters at Angermünde. "From there they were sent to join the divisional armoured reconnaissance battalion (11. SS-Panzer-Aufklärunsabteilung) located in Grüssow [on the island of Usedom]. The battalion commander was Sturmbannführer Rudolf Saalbach ... [The BFC were allocated] to the 3rd Company, under the command of the Swedish Obersturmführer Hans-Gösta Pehrson."[24] The BFC contingent was commanded by SS-Scharführer (squad leader) Douglas Mardon, who used the alias "Hodge". Richard W. Landwehr Jr. states "The Britons were sent to a company in the detachment that was situated in the small village of Schoenburg near the west bank of the Oder River".[25]

On 16 April 1945, the Corps was moved to Templin, where they were to join the transport company of Steiner's HQ staff (Kraftfahrstaffel StabSteiner).[26] When the Nordland Division left for Berlin, 'the transport company followed Steiner's Headquarters to Neustrelitz and the BFC went with it.'[27] On 29 April, Steiner decided 'to break contact with the Russians and order his forces to head west into Anglo-American captivity.'[28] Thomas Haller Cooper and Fred Croft, the last two members of the Corps, surrendered on 2 May to the 121st Infantry Regiment (United States) in Schwerin, and were placed in the loose custody of the GHQ Liaison Regiment (known as Phantom).[29]

Courts-martial edit

Newspapers of the period give details of the court-martial of several Commonwealth soldiers involved in the Corps. One Canadian captive, Private Edwin Barnard Martin, said he joined the Corps "to wreck it". He designed the flag and banner used by the Corps,[30] and admitted to being one of the original six or seven members of the Corps during his trial. He was given a travel warrant and a railway pass which allowed him to move around Germany without a guard.[31] He was found guilty of two charges of aiding the enemy while a prisoner of war.[32]

New Zealand soldier Roy Courlander claimed at his court-martial that he joined the Corps for similar reasons, to gather intelligence on the Germans, to foster a revolution behind the German lines, or to sabotage the unit if the revolution failed.[33]

John Amery was sentenced to death in November 1945 for high treason, and hanged on 19 December 1945.[34]

In popular culture edit

  • The film Joy Division (2006) portrays a member of the BFC, Sergeant Harry Stone, among the German troops and refugees fleeing the Red Army advance into Germany. In the film it is the aggressive Stone who appears to be the only convinced Nazi remaining among the Hitler Youth with whom he is grouped. He is seen attempting to recruit British POWs before the column is attacked by Soviet aircraft.
  • Jack Higgins' novel The Eagle Has Landed portrays a BFC officer named Harvey Preston, who is patterned on Douglas Berneville-Claye. He is attached to the Fallschirmjäger unit which attempts to kidnap Winston Churchill. A convinced Nazi and petty criminal, Preston is viewed with disgust by all members of the German unit.
  • On TV, the British Free Corps was a subject for "The Hide", the final episode of series 6 of the British TV series Foyle's War, in which a British POW who had joined the BFC was tried for treason in Great Britain once he returned home, after surviving the firebombing of Dresden.[35]

Gallery edit

See also edit

References edit

Citations edit

  1. ^ a b c Weale, Adrian. "British Free Corps in SS-Waffen – Myth and Historic Reality". AustraliaRussia.com. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Soldier Refused Civil Court Trial". Edmonton Journal. 30 August 1945. p. 2.
  3. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Locations 3757-3758. Appendix 5 British Members of the British Free Corps and their Aliases.
  4. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Location 1948.
  5. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Location 2002.
  6. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Location 2083.
  7. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Locations 2172-2173.
  8. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Location 2264.
  9. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Location 2331.
  10. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Locations 2529-2530, 2793.
  11. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Locations 2979-2980.
  12. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Location 3007.
  13. ^ Kinmond, William (8 September 1945). "Nazi' 'British Free Corps' One Of Their Bigger Flops". The Toronto Daily Star. p. 18.
  14. ^ Weale (1994), p. 114.
  15. ^ Weale (1994), p. 149.
  16. ^ Weale (1994), p. 160.
  17. ^ See, for example, Stein, George H. (1966). Waffen-SS: Hitler's Elite Guard at War. Cornell University Press. p. 190.
  18. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Location 1961.
  19. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Location 2297.
  20. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Locations 2209-2211.
  21. ^ “The Brits Who Fought For Hitler”, History Channel documentary, 2002
  22. ^ "Sniping on fashion's frontlines". The Herald. 17 October 2002.
  23. ^ The British Free Corps, anzacpow.com, accessed 10 June 2022
  24. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Locations 3028-3032.
  25. ^ Landwehr, Richard (2012). Britisches Freikorps: British Volunteers of the Waffen-SS 1943-1945. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-47505-924-3.
  26. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Locations 3077-3078.
  27. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Location 3132.
  28. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Locations 3140-3141.
  29. ^ Weale (2014), Kindle Location 3162-70.
  30. ^ "Says he Gave Nazi Salute but Tried to Break Corps". Toronto Daily Star. Toronto. 5 September 1945. p. 4. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  31. ^ "Martin Denies Aid to Germans". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 5 September 1945. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  32. ^ "Sees Guilty Verdict in Martin Case". The Windsor Daily Star. 6 September 1945. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  33. ^ "Wrote Broadcast Talks for Germans". The Glasgow Herald. Glasgow. 6 October 1945. p. 6. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  34. ^ "Renegade Amery To Die: Trial Lasted 8 Minutes". The Toronto Daily Star. 28 November 1945. p. 1.
  35. ^ Horowitz, Anthony (9 April 2010). "The Return of Foyle's War". The Daily Telegraph.

Bibliography edit

  • Ailsby, Christopher J. (2004). Hitler's Renegades: Foreign Nationals in the Service of the Third Reich. Dulles, Virginia: Brassey's. ISBN 978-1-57488-838-6.
  • Cawthorne, Nigel (2012). "The Brits who fought for Hitler". The Story of the SS. Arcturus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84858-947-6.
  • Faber, David (2007). Speaking for England. London, UK: Pocket Books. ISBN 978-1-4165-2596-7.
  • Jelusić, Marko (2010). "Das „British Free Corps" in der SS-Schule „Haus Germanien"". In Kemmerer, H. (ed.). St. Michaelis zu Hildesheim: Geschichte und Geschichten aus 1000 Jahren [St. Michaelis zu Hildesheim: history and stories from 1000 years] (in German). Hildesheim: Hildesheimer Volkshochschule. pp. 197–206. ISBN 978-3-8067-8736-8.
  • Landwehr, Richard (2008). Britisches Freikorps. Lulu. ISBN 978-0-5570-3362-1. 'The story of the British volunteers of the Waffen-SS has long been treated with scorn and derision by the establishment media ... This publication at least will try and change that perception.'
  • Littlejohn, David (1987). Foreign Legions of the Third Reich. Vol. 2:. Belgium, Great Britain, Holland, Italy and Spain. Рипол Классик. ISBN 978-0-91213-822-0.
  • Mackenzie, S.P. (2004). The Colditz Myth. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19926-210-6.
  • de Slade, Marquis (1970). The Yeomen of Valhalla (Volume 1 of Behind the Siegfried Line). Mannheim: Distributed privately. Details the formation and activities of the British Free Corps and its membership, though the author chose to apply pseudonyms to those mentioned the book.
  • Murphy, Sean (2005). "Chapter 5". Letting the Side Down: British Traitors of the Second World War. London, UK: The History Press Ltd. ISBN 0-7509-4176-6.
  • Pleasants, Eric & Chapman, Eddie (1957). I Killed to Live : the Story of Eric Pleasants, as Told to Eddie Chapman. London, UK: Cassell & Company.
  • Pleasants, Eric; Sayer, Ian & Botting, Douglas (2012). Hitler's Bastard: Through Hell and Back in Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia. London, UK: Random House. ISBN 978-1-78057-429-5.
  • Seth, Ronald (1972). Jackals of the Reich. The Story of the British Free Corps. New English Library. ISBN 978-0-45001-221-1. This book was effectively a re-writing by the British spy writer Ronald Seth of The Yeomen of Valhalla (Behind the Siegfried Line). Seth also chose to use the same pseudonyms. Neither of these books included references or a bibliography and, as a result, some subsequent writers have taken the pseudonyms to be real names.[citation needed]
  • Weale, Adrian (1994). Renegades: Hitler's Englishmen. London, UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-7126-6764-4.
  • Weale, Adrian (2014), Renegades: Hitler's Englishmen, Random House (Kindle edition).
  • Weale, Adrian (2001). Patriot Traitors: Roger Casement, John Amery and the Real Meaning of Treason. London, UK: Viking. ISBN 0-6708-8498-7.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to British Free Corps.
  • Metcalf, Margaret (29 March 2002). "'My father the war traitor'". BBC News.
  • Foggo, Daniel (5 May 2002). "SS veterans in Britain hold secret reunions". The Daily Telegraph.

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The British Free Corps German Britisches Freikorps BFC was a unit of the Waffen SS of Nazi Germany during World War II made up of British and Dominion prisoners of war who had been recruited by Germany The unit was originally known as the Legion of St George 2 Research by British historian Adrian Weale has identified 54 men 1 3 who belonged to this unit at one time or another some for only a few days At no time did it reach more than 27 men in strength 1 British Free CorpsArmshieldActive1943 1945Disbanded1945Allegiance Nazi GermanyBranchWaffen SSTypeInfantryRoleWaffen SS auxiliarySize54 total membership 1 27 maximum strength Contents 1 Formation 2 Commanders 3 Members 4 Preparation for active service 5 Courts martial 6 In popular culture 7 Gallery 8 See also 9 References 9 1 Citations 9 2 Bibliography 10 External linksFormation edit nbsp Two early recruits to the BFC Kenneth Berry and Alfred Minchin with German officers April 1944The idea for the British Free Corps came from John Amery a British fascist son of the serving British Secretary of State for India Leo Amery John Amery travelled to Berlin in October 1942 and proposed to the Germans the formation of a British volunteer force to help fight the Bolsheviks The British volunteer force was to be modelled after the Legion des volontaires francais contre le bolchevisme Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism a French collaborationist force fighting with the German Wehrmacht In addition to touting the idea of a British volunteer force Amery actively tried to recruit Britons He made a series of pro German propaganda radio broadcasts appealing to his fellow countrymen to join the war on communism The first recruits to the Corps came from a group of prisoners of war POWs at a holiday camp set up by the Germans in Genshagen a suburb of Berlin in August 1943 4 In November 1943 they were moved to a requisitioned cafe in the Pankow district of Berlin 5 Recruits also came from an interrogation camp at Luckenwalde in late 1943 6 The Corps became a military unit on 1 January 1944 under the name The British Free Corps 7 In the first week of February 1944 the BFC moved to the St Michaeli Kloster in Hildesheim a small town near Hanover 8 Uniforms were issued on 20 April 1944 Hitler s 55th birthday 9 On 11 October 1944 the Corps was moved to the Waffen SS Pioneer school in Dresden to start military training for service on the Eastern Front 10 On 24 February 1945 they travelled from Dresden to Berlin where they stayed in a requisitioned school on the Schonhauser Allee 11 On 8 March 1945 they were moved to the village of Niemegk a few miles to the south west of Berlin 12 Recruiting for the Free Corps was done in German POW camps In 1944 leaflets were distributed to the POWs and the unit was mentioned in Camp the official POW newspaper published in Berlin The unit was promoted as a thoroughly volunteer unit conceived and created by British subjects from all parts of the Empire who have taken up arms and pledged their lives in the common European struggle against Soviet Russia The attempted recruitment of POWs was done amid German fear of the Soviets the Germans were victims of their own propaganda and thought that their enemies were as worried about the Soviets as they were In one Dutch camp cigarettes fruit and other items were lavished on the POWs while they listened to Nazi propaganda officers who described the good that the Germans were doing in Europe then asked the men to join in fighting the real enemy the Soviets 13 Commanders editThe BFC did not have a commander per se as it was the intention of the SS to appoint a British commander when a suitable British officer came forward However three German Waffen SS officers acted as the Verbindungsoffizier liaison officer between the SS Hauptamt Amtsgruppe D 3 which was responsible for the unit and the British volunteers and in practice they acted as the unit commander for disciplinary purposes at least These were SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Hans Werner Roepke September 1943 November 1944 14 SS Obersturmfuhrer Dr Walter Kuhlich November 1944 April 1945 15 SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Dr Alexander Dolezalek April 1945 16 A number of sources mention the involvement of Brigadier Leonard Parrington a British Army officer captured by the Germans in Greece in 1941 17 This was based on a misunderstanding by some of the British volunteers after Parrington in the summer of 1943 had visited the POW holiday camp at Genshagen in the southern suburbs of Berlin as representative of the Senior British POW Major General Victor Fortune Parrington had told the assembled prisoners that he knew the purpose of the camp 18 and the BFC volunteers who were there took this to mean that he approved of the unit In reality Parrington had accepted Genshagen at face value as a rest centre for POWs Members editLeading members of the Corps included Thomas Haller Cooper although he was actually an Unterscharfuhrer in the Waffen SS proper 19 Roy Courlander Edwin Barnard Martin Frank McLardy Alfred Minchin and John Wilson these men later became known among the renegades as the Big Six although this was a notional elite whose membership shifted periodically as members fell into and out of favour 20 In 2002 it was claimed that Robert Chipchase an Australian was by then the last surviving member of the British Free Corps 21 22 He commented that he had changed his mind about joining and refused to sign the enlistment papers spending the rest of the war in a punishment camp 23 Preparation for active service editIn March 1945 a BFC detachment was deployed with the 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland under Brigadefuhrer Joachim Ziegler which was composed largely of Scandinavian volunteers and attached to the III Germanic SS Panzer Corps under Obergruppenfuhrer Felix Steiner They were first sent from Stettin to the division s headquarters at Angermunde From there they were sent to join the divisional armoured reconnaissance battalion 11 SS Panzer Aufklarunsabteilung located in Grussow on the island of Usedom The battalion commander was Sturmbannfuhrer Rudolf Saalbach The BFC were allocated to the 3rd Company under the command of the Swedish Obersturmfuhrer Hans Gosta Pehrson 24 The BFC contingent was commanded by SS Scharfuhrer squad leader Douglas Mardon who used the alias Hodge Richard W Landwehr Jr states The Britons were sent to a company in the detachment that was situated in the small village of Schoenburg near the west bank of the Oder River 25 On 16 April 1945 the Corps was moved to Templin where they were to join the transport company of Steiner s HQ staff Kraftfahrstaffel StabSteiner 26 When the Nordland Division left for Berlin the transport company followed Steiner s Headquarters to Neustrelitz and the BFC went with it 27 On 29 April Steiner decided to break contact with the Russians and order his forces to head west into Anglo American captivity 28 Thomas Haller Cooper and Fred Croft the last two members of the Corps surrendered on 2 May to the 121st Infantry Regiment United States in Schwerin and were placed in the loose custody of the GHQ Liaison Regiment known as Phantom 29 Courts martial editNewspapers of the period give details of the court martial of several Commonwealth soldiers involved in the Corps One Canadian captive Private Edwin Barnard Martin said he joined the Corps to wreck it He designed the flag and banner used by the Corps 30 and admitted to being one of the original six or seven members of the Corps during his trial He was given a travel warrant and a railway pass which allowed him to move around Germany without a guard 31 He was found guilty of two charges of aiding the enemy while a prisoner of war 32 New Zealand soldier Roy Courlander claimed at his court martial that he joined the Corps for similar reasons to gather intelligence on the Germans to foster a revolution behind the German lines or to sabotage the unit if the revolution failed 33 John Amery was sentenced to death in November 1945 for high treason and hanged on 19 December 1945 34 In popular culture editThe film Joy Division 2006 portrays a member of the BFC Sergeant Harry Stone among the German troops and refugees fleeing the Red Army advance into Germany In the film it is the aggressive Stone who appears to be the only convinced Nazi remaining among the Hitler Youth with whom he is grouped He is seen attempting to recruit British POWs before the column is attacked by Soviet aircraft Jack Higgins novel The Eagle Has Landed portrays a BFC officer named Harvey Preston who is patterned on Douglas Berneville Claye He is attached to the Fallschirmjager unit which attempts to kidnap Winston Churchill A convinced Nazi and petty criminal Preston is viewed with disgust by all members of the German unit On TV the British Free Corps was a subject for The Hide the final episode of series 6 of the British TV series Foyle s War in which a British POW who had joined the BFC was tried for treason in Great Britain once he returned home after surviving the firebombing of Dresden 35 Gallery edit nbsp SS Rottenfuhrer William Brittain February 1945 nbsp SS Oberscharfuhrer Thomas Haller Cooper British mugshot 1945 nbsp SS Unterscharfuhrer Roy Courlander 1944 nbsp SS Mann Eric Reginald Pleasants 1944See also editNon Germans in the German armed forces during World War II Friesack Camp attempt to raise an Irish Brigade Indian Legion List of members of the British Free Corps Waffen SS foreign volunteers and conscripts Fusilier James Brady John Codd Free Corps DenmarkReferences editCitations edit a b c Weale Adrian British Free Corps in SS Waffen Myth and Historic Reality AustraliaRussia com Retrieved 18 May 2016 Soldier Refused Civil Court Trial Edmonton Journal 30 August 1945 p 2 Weale 2014 Kindle Locations 3757 3758 Appendix 5 British Members of the British Free Corps and their Aliases Weale 2014 Kindle Location 1948 Weale 2014 Kindle Location 2002 Weale 2014 Kindle Location 2083 Weale 2014 Kindle Locations 2172 2173 Weale 2014 Kindle Location 2264 Weale 2014 Kindle Location 2331 Weale 2014 Kindle Locations 2529 2530 2793 Weale 2014 Kindle Locations 2979 2980 Weale 2014 Kindle Location 3007 Kinmond William 8 September 1945 Nazi British Free Corps One Of Their Bigger Flops The Toronto Daily Star p 18 Weale 1994 p 114 Weale 1994 p 149 Weale 1994 p 160 See for example Stein George H 1966 Waffen SS Hitler s Elite Guard at War Cornell University Press p 190 Weale 2014 Kindle Location 1961 Weale 2014 Kindle Location 2297 Weale 2014 Kindle Locations 2209 2211 The Brits Who Fought For Hitler History Channel documentary 2002 Sniping on fashion s frontlines The Herald 17 October 2002 The British Free Corps anzacpow com accessed 10 June 2022 Weale 2014 Kindle Locations 3028 3032 Landwehr Richard 2012 Britisches Freikorps British Volunteers of the Waffen SS 1943 1945 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform p 83 ISBN 978 1 47505 924 3 Weale 2014 Kindle Locations 3077 3078 Weale 2014 Kindle Location 3132 Weale 2014 Kindle Locations 3140 3141 Weale 2014 Kindle Location 3162 70 Says he Gave Nazi Salute but Tried to Break Corps Toronto Daily Star Toronto 5 September 1945 p 4 Retrieved 9 January 2013 Martin Denies Aid to Germans Montreal Gazette Montreal 5 September 1945 Retrieved 9 January 2013 Sees Guilty Verdict in Martin Case The Windsor Daily Star 6 September 1945 Retrieved 9 January 2013 Wrote Broadcast Talks for Germans The Glasgow Herald Glasgow 6 October 1945 p 6 Retrieved 9 January 2013 Renegade Amery To Die Trial Lasted 8 Minutes The Toronto Daily Star 28 November 1945 p 1 Horowitz Anthony 9 April 2010 The Return of Foyle s War The Daily Telegraph Bibliography edit Ailsby Christopher J 2004 Hitler s Renegades Foreign Nationals in the Service of the Third Reich Dulles Virginia Brassey s ISBN 978 1 57488 838 6 Cawthorne Nigel 2012 The Brits who fought for Hitler The Story of the SS Arcturus Publishing ISBN 978 1 84858 947 6 Faber David 2007 Speaking for England London UK Pocket Books ISBN 978 1 4165 2596 7 Jelusic Marko 2010 Das British Free Corps in der SS Schule Haus Germanien In Kemmerer H ed St Michaelis zu Hildesheim Geschichte und Geschichten aus 1000 Jahren St Michaelis zu Hildesheim history and stories from 1000 years in German Hildesheim Hildesheimer Volkshochschule pp 197 206 ISBN 978 3 8067 8736 8 Landwehr Richard 2008 Britisches Freikorps Lulu ISBN 978 0 5570 3362 1 The story of the British volunteers of the Waffen SS has long been treated with scorn and derision by the establishment media This publication at least will try and change that perception Littlejohn David 1987 Foreign Legions of the Third Reich Vol 2 Belgium Great Britain Holland Italy and Spain Ripol Klassik ISBN 978 0 91213 822 0 Mackenzie S P 2004 The Colditz Myth Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 19926 210 6 de Slade Marquis 1970 The Yeomen of Valhalla Volume 1 of Behind the Siegfried Line Mannheim Distributed privately Details the formation and activities of the British Free Corps and its membership though the author chose to apply pseudonyms to those mentioned the book Murphy Sean 2005 Chapter 5 Letting the Side Down British Traitors of the Second World War London UK The History Press Ltd ISBN 0 7509 4176 6 Pleasants Eric amp Chapman Eddie 1957 I Killed to Live the Story of Eric Pleasants as Told to Eddie Chapman London UK Cassell amp Company Pleasants Eric Sayer Ian amp Botting Douglas 2012 Hitler s Bastard Through Hell and Back in Nazi Germany and Stalin s Russia London UK Random House ISBN 978 1 78057 429 5 Seth Ronald 1972 Jackals of the Reich The Story of the British Free Corps New English Library ISBN 978 0 45001 221 1 This book was effectively a re writing by the British spy writer Ronald Seth of The Yeomen of Valhalla Behind the Siegfried Line Seth also chose to use the same pseudonyms Neither of these books included references or a bibliography and as a result some subsequent writers have taken the pseudonyms to be real names citation needed Weale Adrian 1994 Renegades Hitler s Englishmen London UK Weidenfeld amp Nicolson ISBN 0 7126 6764 4 Weale Adrian 2014 Renegades Hitler s Englishmen Random House Kindle edition Weale Adrian 2001 Patriot Traitors Roger Casement John Amery and the Real Meaning of Treason London UK Viking ISBN 0 6708 8498 7 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to British Free Corps Metcalf Margaret 29 March 2002 My father the war traitor BBC News Foggo Daniel 5 May 2002 SS veterans in Britain hold secret reunions The Daily Telegraph Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title British Free Corps amp oldid 1184641203, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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