[Keith Brown]

It’s a good read.

Please dont see this as an adversary thing.

Just couple of lads talking history.

Cheers!

[Joe 6-pack]

Oh no...I don't see this as adverserial at all...love talking history and always appreciate the opportunity. After your last post I did some googling, and while I'm sure I've never read "Streets Without Joy" I do realize somewhere along the line I must have read some excerpts from it. I know there's a lot of controversy surrounding the "Devil's Guard" books, and certainly their veracity is in doubt, but like all good fiction there's most likely some basis in fact.

Because the Legion closely guards private records, most of what we know of their demographics are speculation with maybe a few educated guesses thrown in. I've read some sources that say that up to 60% of the Legionnaires in Indochina were German or Austrian...Other accounts say that the FFL accepted less than 100 German recruits between 1945-1950. Still others speculate that, in an effort to discredit "western imperialism" in the early cold war, Soviet bloc intelligence services greatly exaggerated the numbers and influence of former SS in the FFL.