FRANCE FLAWLESS RARE WW2 STAMPS w FRENCH NAZI SOLDIERS READ UNIQUE HISTORY

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War, like politics (of which war, it\'s said, is but an extension), makes strange bedfellows. And you\'ll find no more poignant example of this than the present collection of rare, original stamps memorializing the \"other\" French Foreign Legion, \"La Legion des Voluntaires Francais Contre le Bolshevisme\".

The subject \"Legion\" was recruited from the ranks of the Vichy (aka Petain aka Collaborationist) Regime in German occupied and controlled France to fight alongside the Nazis on the Russian Front!!! That\'s right, French soldiers fighting shoulder to shoulder on the same side as the Nazis!! Their common foe was the Bolsheviks or Communists on the Nazi Eastern Front, where more battles with more casualties were fought than any other theater of the War!!!

As these finely engraved stamps illustrate,French volunteers wore Nazi uniforms and carried Nazi guns. Each stamp shows a different amazing scene of Legion members in action:

A horseback Company riding through a wartorn Russian village (burgundy with green text)
An artillery unit firing on a distant target, already ablaze! (teal with black text)
A solidier standing in a trench, looking at a Russian village (recognizable by a Russian Orthodox church)through binoculars (purple with red text)
Axis tanks bearing down on yet another village (brown with blue text)
Volunteers with arms raised in the Nazi salute (Sieg Heil) flanking 19th Century Napoleonic Troops marching into Russia 150 years earlier! (blue with red text). Apoignant propagandistic image designed to bolster their fighting spirit.

Every one of these images is characterized by heavy snow, which is exactly what caused both Napoleon\'s troops and the Axis Troops to flounder. Each stamp bears the symbol of the French Volunteers, a tri-colored shield with FRANCE overprinted.

These remarkable historic stamps remain in pristine, flawless condition with full original gum and not a single trace of hinge mounting. An absolutely rare and amazing World War 2 collectible, seldom available in a MNH (mint Never Hinged) full set of 5 as offered here. Please note we have other RARE Nazi legion stamps from other Occupied Lands and Territories.

Only a tiny fraction of French males fought for the Nazis. 220,000 lost their lives fighting for the Allied cause. Which makes these stamps all the more rare and unusual!!

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French soldiers from the Legion in the Heer uniform.

The Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism (French: Légion des Volontaires Français contre le Bolchévisme, or simply Légion des Volontaires Français, LVF) was a Collaborationist French militia founded on July 8, 1941, a week after Nazi Germany\'s invasion of the Soviet Union. It gathered various Collaborationist parties, including Marcel Bucard\'s Mouvement Franciste, Marcel Déat\'s National Popular Rally, Jacques Doriot\'s French Popular Party, Eugène Deloncle\'s Social Revolutionary Movement, Pierre Clémenti National Collectivist French Party and Pierre Costantini\'s French League.

It volunteered to fight against the USSR on the Eastern Front. The Legion of French Volunteers (LVF) was officially known to the Germans as Infantry Regiment (Infanterieregiment) 638.

The Legion of French Volunteers was mainly made up of right-wing Frenchmen and French prisoners of war who preferred fighting to forced labor in Germany. Another unit formed in France, the Tricolor Regiment (La Légion Tricolore) was absorbed into the LVF six months later.

Action

In October 1941, a french infantry regiment, 2,452 men strong, crossed the frontier of the Soviet Union as part of the foreign contingent of the German invasion force.

During the spring of 1942, the Legion of French Volunteers was reorganized with only the 1st and 3rd battalions and spent the rest of its tour of duty on the Eastern Front fighting partisans in the rear areas.

In June 1943, the two independent battalions were again united in a single regiment and continued fighting partisans in the Ukraine.

On 1 September 1944, the Legion of French Volunteers was officially disbanded. It merged with the Milice to create the SS Charlemagne Division.

Uniform

French volunteers wore German unforms. But, like other foreign volunteers, the French were allowed to wear their national colors on the right sleeve of their German uniform and on the Stahlhelm. Both German and French decorations were worn.