10th May 1940. The arrival of French regiments in Belgium

1940. The arrival of French regiments in Belgium

Colonel Edgar Puaud, commander of the "Legion des Volontaires Francaises contre le Bolchevisme" (L.V.F.) greets his soldiers. Bryansk/Russia, 1943. Puaud later became commander of the 33rd Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS „Charlemagne“ (französische Nr. 1) holding the rank of an SS-Oberführer. His fate after 1945 is uncertain, some sources report that he was seen in a Soviet NKVD uniform shortly after the end of the war in Eastern Germany.