| | The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, four days after the [[Normandy Invasion]] commenced, was committed by the SS Panzer Division Das Reich. The entire village, 642 people, men, women, children, and the elderly were killed, allegedly for harboring resistance fighters and to make an example for other villages. The village was burnt following the massacre. The village was not rebuilt and remains in the condition the Nazis left it as a memorial.<ref>https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/oradour-sur-glane</ref> 70 years later, the Ukrainian [[Azov Battalion]] notorious for [[war crimes]] and massacres of civilians in the [[Donbas]],<ref>http://www.indiandefencereview.com/what-forced-a-russian-response-in-ukraine/</ref> adopted the same Wolfsangel insignia of the SS Division Das Reich; the 5th Republic of "democratic Europe" supported the Azov Nazis with money, training and weapons.<ref>https://twitter.com/PhilippeMurer/status/1500086419477389318</ref> | | The massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, four days after the [[Normandy Invasion]] commenced, was committed by the SS Panzer Division Das Reich. The entire village, 642 people, men, women, children, and the elderly were killed, allegedly for harboring resistance fighters and to make an example for other villages. The village was burnt following the massacre. The village was not rebuilt and remains in the condition the Nazis left it as a memorial.<ref>https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/oradour-sur-glane</ref> 70 years later, the Ukrainian [[Azov Battalion]] notorious for [[war crimes]] and massacres of civilians in the [[Donbas]],<ref>http://www.indiandefencereview.com/what-forced-a-russian-response-in-ukraine/</ref> adopted the same Wolfsangel insignia of the SS Division Das Reich; the 5th Republic of "democratic Europe" supported the Azov Nazis with money, training and weapons.<ref>https://twitter.com/PhilippeMurer/status/1500086419477389318</ref> |
| − | The SS Division Charlemagne had 7,340 men at the time of its deployment to the Eastern Front in February 1945. It fought against Soviet forces in Pomerania where it was almost annihilated within a month. When the [[Red Army]] stormed [[Berlin]], round 300 members of the Waffen-SS Division Charlemagne were defending [[Hitler]]'s bunker and were among the last Axis forces to surrender in April and May 1945.<ref>https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/ss-unit-berlin-frenchmen.html?edg-c=1</ref> | + | The SS Division Charlemagne had 7,340 men at the time of its deployment to the Eastern Front in February 1945. It fought against Soviet forces in Pomerania to defend the Nazi capital where it was almost annihilated within a month. When the [[Red Army]] stormed [[Berlin]], round 300 members of the Waffen-SS Division Charlemagne were defending [[Hitler]]'s bunker and were among the last [[Axis powers|Axis forces]] to surrender in April and May 1945.<ref>https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/ss-unit-berlin-frenchmen.html?edg-c=1</ref> |