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The Franco-German Brigade (French: Brigade Franco-Allemande; German: Deutsch-Französische Brigade) is a special military brigade of the Eurocorps, founded in 1989, jointly consisting of units from both the French Army and the German Army. [1]
The division also included French recruits from other German military and paramilitary formations and Miliciens who had fled ahead of the Allied Liberation of France (June–November 1944). After training, the Charlemagne Brigade was reclassified as a division as the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) (33. Waffen ...
The Franco-German Brigade was created on 12 January 1989. On 30 August 1993, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the designation of these forces changed to "French Forces stationed in Germany" (FFSA) and most of the forces were withdrawn to France or disbanded. [4]
Devil's Guard is a book by George Robert Elford and was published in 1971. The book depicts the story of a former German Waffen-SS officer's string of near-constant combat that begins on World War II's eastern front and continues into the book's focus — the First Indochina War-as an officer in the French Foreign Legion.
At that time the Eurocorps had the following units permanently affiliated: the 1st French Armored Division, the 10th German Armored Division, the 1st Belgian Mechanized Division, which included a Luxembourg reconnaissance company, the Mechanized Division "Brunete" and the Franco-German Brigade, totaling 50,000 troops, 645 tanks, 1,400 armored ...
2e régiment de hussards (France) , Brigade de Renseignement (Intelligence Brigade) - Haguenau; 3 e Régiment de Hussards (3rd Hussars Regiment), Brigade Franco-Allemande (Joint French-German Brigade) - Metz; 5 e Régiment de Cuirassiers (5th Cuirassier Regiment) - United Arab Emirates
note 1: In case of war approximately 1,400 men from 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group would have been sent to Germany to bring 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group to full wartime strength. note 2: Each of 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group's mechanized battalions fielded the following equipment: 2x M577, 65x M113 , 11x Lynx , 18x M113 TUA ...
The French SS Volunteer Assault Brigade (German: Französische S.S. Freiwilligen Sturmbrigade), most commonly known as the Brigade Frankreich (lit. ' France Brigade ') [b] was a unit of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. It was formed in 1943 after a change in the admission standards of the Waffen-SS allowed Frenchmen to enlist ...