In the meantime, in July 1943, a new recruiting drive had begun in Vichy France.
The LVF fought on the Ukraine front against the Soviets in 1944. The unit (without a French commander) was attached to various German divisions until June 1943 when Colonel Edgard Puaud took command. They were briefly joined by La Légion Tricolore (Tricolor Regiment) but this unit lasted only six months in 1942 and was later absorbed into the LVF. It fought near Moscow in November 1941 but its commander, Colonel Roger Balonne, was later relieved of his duties and in 1942 the men were assigned to anti-partisan duties in the Byelorussian SSR ( Belarus). The first unit was the Légion des Volontaires Français (Legion of French Volunteers or LVF), mainly composed of right-wing Frenchmen and released French soldiers who preferred fighting to forced labour in Germany. The Charlemagne division was not a single military unit but succession of groups of collaborating French volunteers (though the exact nature of "volunteering" has been disputed). 1) and Charlemagne Regiment are collective names used for units of French volunteers in the Wehrmacht and later Waffen-SS during the World War II. The 33rd Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS Charlemagne (französische Nr.
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