Two soldiers of the 'Legion des volontaires francais' inwards a conquered town on the Eastern Front, belatedly tumble 1941. Photograph past times Artur Grimm. The 'Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism' (French: Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchévisme, or but Légion des volontaires français, LVF) was a collaborationist militia of Vichy French Republic founded on 8 July 1941. It gathered diverse 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's French National-Collectivist Party, together with Pierre Costantini's French League. It had no formal link alongside the Vichy regime, fifty-fifty though it was recognized equally an "association of populace usefulness" past times Pierre Laval's authorities inwards Feb 1943. Philippe Pétain, caput of dry reason of Vichy France, personally disapproved of Frenchmen wearing High German uniforms together with never went beyond private together with informal words of back upwards to exactly about specific officers. It volunteered to produce out against the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. It was officially known past times its High German designation, verstärktes Französisches Infanterie-Regiment 638 (the reinforced 638th French Infantry Regiment).
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