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Plates

^{The LVF marching down Les Champs-Elysées to an investiture at Les Invalides on 27 August 1943.}

^{The LVF parading at Les Invalides for an investiture ceremony with East Front veterans on the left and a new intake of volunteers on the right.}

^{The highly decorated RSM of the LVF.}

^{A recruiting poster for the Charlemagne before that title had been approved.}

^{SS-Major-General Dr Gustav Krukenberg, Commander of the Charlemagne, later of the Nordland.}

^{Colonel/Brigadier Edgar Puaud, formerly French Foreign Legion, Deputy Commander of the Charlemagne.}

^{SS-Colonel Walter Zimmermann, Chief Intructor of the Charlemagne.}

^{Roman Catholic Padre Count Jean de Mayol de Lupé, here seen with his secretary Henri Caux, volunteered for active service with the LVF at the age of 68 before transferring to the Charlemagne, becoming the only padre in the Waffen-SS. Given a six-year prison sentence after the war, he died in prison in 1956.}

^{Major Jean de Vaugelas, ex-French Air Force, Divisional Chief-of-Staff.}

^{Major Paul-Marie Gamory- Dubourdeau, Commander 57th Regiment, later transferred to SS Main Office.}

^{Major Eugène Bridoux, Commander 58th Regiment, resigned December 1944.}

^{Captain Emile Monneuse, First Commander 1st/58th, killed near Belgard.}

^{Captain Victor de Bourmont, First Commander 57th Regiment, missing in action, Pommerania.}

^{Major Boudet-Gheusi, Commander Heavy Battalion after the reorganisation in March 1945.}

^{Captain Henri Josef Fenet, Second Commander 1st/57th and later of the Storm Battalion in Berlin, awarded the Knight’s Cross, captured in Berlin.}

^{Captain René-André Obitz, Commander 2nd/58th, wounded at Stolp, reported missing.}

^{Captain Jean Bassompierre, Commander Support Battalion, captured at Körlin, repatriated and executed 1948.}

^{Captain Berrier, Commander 2nd/58th.}

^{2/Lt Jean Labourdette, Commander 1st Coy, 2nd/58th. Killed in Berlin tunnels.}

^{Sergeant-Major Croiseille, 1st Coy, 2nd/58th.}

^{Lieutenant Pierre Michel, Commander 2nd Coy 2nd/58th. Reported missing in Berlin.}

^{Sergeant-Major Pierre Rostaing, Commander 3 Coy, 2nd/58th.}

^{2/Lt Alfred Brunet, Commander Tank Hunting Unit, awarded Iron Cross First Class.}

^{Officer-Cadet Protopopoff. Killed in Berlin.}

^{Staff-Sergeant Ollivier, Commander 4th Coy, 2nd/58th.}

^{Sergeant Eugène Vaulot, awarded Knight’s Cross. Killed in Berlin.}

^{SS-Captain Wilhelm Weber, Commander Honour Company, awarded Knight’s Cross.}

^{The Waffen-SS leadership academy at Bad Tölz.}

^{Field conditions in Pomerania during the Charlemagne’s first action.}

^{The evacuation of Kolberg under fire.}

^{Lieutenant Fenet manning a machine gun.}

^{The double gates to Hitler’s Chancellery on Wilhelmplatz.}

^{Devastation on Friedrichstrasse after the battle.}

^{The U-Bahn entrance at the Kaiserhof Hotel used by Captain Fenet and his party as an escape route.}

^{Potsdamerstrasse.}

^{Corporal Robert Soulat, interpreter/translator at Charlemagne headquarters, who later collated and provided much of the information upon which this book is based.}

^{General Philippe Leclerk examining the thirteen Charlemagne prisoners handed over to him by the Americans at Bad Reichenall prior to ordering their summary execution.}