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intruiging first hand account of antiguerrilla warfare, A truly unique book that underscores many of the issues that modern nation states face when fighting insurgencies from the moral high ground.
Members of the Waffen SS join the French Foreign Legion fighting in Vietnam, With no country to return to how will they survive Βαθμολογία:/

Υποτίθεται ότι το βιβλίο αυτό είναι μια μυθιστορηματική καταγραφή της πραγματικής ιστορίας ενός πρώην στρατιώτη των SS και της μονάδας του, τους Χανς Γιόζεφ Βαγκεμύλερ, που από το Ανατολικό Μέτωπο του Β' Π, Π. βρέθηκε στην Ινδοκίνα, να πολεμάει σαν μισθοφόρος για τη Γαλλική Λεγεώνα των Ξένων απέναντι στους Βιετμίνχ. Τελικά, είναι μάλλον καθαρή φαντασία η όλη ιστορία του βιβλίου, αν και σίγουρα θα βασίζεται σε αληθινά πρόσωπα και αληθινές καταστάσεις, από τη στιγμή που είναι τόσο ρεαλιστικά και ωμά γραμμένο. Είναι ασυζητητί από τις καλύτερες και πιο ψυχαγωγικές πολεμικές ιστορίες που έχω διαβάσει, είναι ένα βιβλίο γεμάτο φοβερές εικόνες και δυνατές σκηνές, με τη γραφή να είναι αρκούντως γλαφυρή και ζωντανή, με εξαιρετικές περιγραφές των τοπίων και των διαφόρων σκηνών δράσης. Φυσικά δεν μιλάμε για κάποιο λογοτεχνικό αριστούργημα ή κάτι τέτοιο, αλλά προσωπικά μου φάνηκε αρκετά καλογραμμένο και οπωσδήποτε απολαυστικό για το είδος του. Το βιβλίο απευθύνεται κυρίως στους λάτρεις των πολεμικών ιστοριών και των περιπετειών, αλλά και ίσως σε όσους θέλουν να μάθουν κάποια πράγματα για τον Α' Πόλεμο της Ινδοκίνας και τη λειτουργία της Γαλλικής Λεγεώνας των Ξένων. "Too good to be true" is the best quote to describe that novel, Yes, it's a novel and not a personal experience of a former SS officer and his friends.
First of all, there were never formed battalions in the French Foreign Legion exclusively by waffen SS/wehrmacht/luftwave etc veterans officers, soldiers, pows etc.
This "luxury" is a science fiction, Those who flee in the FFL, deployed as soldiers in France's battle zones and lived like ghosts.
Despite the "superhuman" abilities that every member of the battalion has, the protagonist describes the cruelty and the rules of war as simple as he can.
He's showing us the one and real face of communism some say it's a nazi propaganda, but what can a nazi propaganda do to the "winners" many years after the war and how people treated under the communist regime in USSR, Indochina, China etc.
He seperates the German soldiers that fought for the greater good of their country against the invaders of Europe and western civilization from those you prefered to stay back and commit crimes against Jews.
He emerges the quality of the German fighters during the war by how they treated rapists including those who served the same flag, partizans that never recognized treaties and even women, childs and elders.
He also codnemns the highranked personel of the Third Reich except Rommel for example, of France and USA's for their faults and their acts against their enemies and their people.
This novel is a perfect "romantic guide of survivalism" in warfare for those who fight for the "art of war".
Many readers fail to see the forest for the trees excactly because of the "winners" point of view in history.
We have to remember that the winner writes the history the way he wants to, being indifferent to the objectivity of the facts.
There are many lines in the book that are worth to annotate, but I won't bother doing that.

Those who are not "blinded" can have their own conclutions after they finish reading the book.

Warriors respect warriors. War is a never ending story and this is the message that the author's offering us.
Only few can understand the mindset of a warrior that fights for the war itself and not for the goverments and wealth.
Dedicsted to the warriors that fight for the greater good and the freedom of speech and humanity.

I want to keep it out of spoils and out of politics so, enjoy,
Thank you This was not the front cover of the book I've read, the book I've read were far older, either way the content is the important.
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Well now this is a book about war, . .

This is a rare book, which is not edited anymore, . . my friend bought it forand as I've seen in some places, like amazon or ebay it was a commom price for this book.
. . There are two more which I saw they were even rarer, . .

This book reminded me of the books written by Sven HaSSel, the swedish soldier who fought for the germans in WWII.
Vivid images and you feel like you are right there fighting and suffering along side them.
As well as Sven Hassel books this book has disputed autentic, . . Nobody knows for certain if they existed but I say you this, . I read a lot about wars, fantasy, real and history and I must say that this two books have some particular not found in the others ones.
. . The reality is so brutal that for me both are true, Sven Hassel books is another story, . He was in war but I think he used not only his stories but others soldiers stories.


First of all, . . I do not hide that I am fascinated by the german machine of war, They were the true aryan in the art of war, Nobody could defeated them. Nazism is other story I do not defend nazism but I have some similaries beliefs which I could be accounted with them.
. I believe in my people and in my fatherland, I don't like foreigners nor do I like mixture between races, But, I wouldn't kill a person because he is different, I don't think me of a superior being but I believe that there are differences between all races.
they have different creeds and religions, diferent states of goverment, different history, . and others things for all this I am against mixture of races and the "global community", Again I must say I don't believe myself superior to other human, If this feelings are what you call them nazis, then I am one of them, But I ask you this, . . didn't you ever have a thought or act of racism No I doubt it, . . Another question would you die for your country would you kill for it No That I can believe.
. . but I ask you something else, would you die for your family and love ones Don't even start the answer with an N.
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There were several things that went wrong with the second world war, . . First I don't agree with the persecution of the jews, but I don't believe the numbers the allies and the communist gave us of the killing of them.
. first in/they said that were aroundmilions, now in the worst scenario, you can read on any website history website, not pronazi nor againstnazi and in our history books that they were aroundmilions.
. . what happened with themilions
Don't forget, who build the armament of the war machine It was the prisioners and the jews.
. they wouldn't kill them all, . but okay, I am not defending the nazis, I am just saying that the victor write history, even propaganda history.
. . Second I didn't like Hitler, but one thing youwell any person who is not stupid and closed minded that he when came to power, he arose the country to a top country of the world.
. He built the country from the ashes of the WWI and built a war machine more powerful than any country of the world.
German was bankrupted never forget that, . . ahh, and in those times, in the earlies's there weren't prisioned jews, so don't blame with them.
. they evolved so rapidly that the world became scared again, . . who were the first one to have highways who were the first one to have a event broadcast all over the world and even beyond olympics who were the first to have jet planes Even if they were stupidly not to used them.
. they were undoubtly the most technological advanced country of the world, . . for that I must take my hat for hitler, . . and then I would smite him with my hat and anything else, . He was Stupid beyond belief, . He picked the jews, the world powerful jews, . Enfin What I am nazi for saying this Well do you like what the isrealits are doing so shut up please and continue reading.
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Now, why I hate Hitler and NSDAP, . . they were fanatical beyond belief, . . first off, hitler tried to grabed the land which was stolen since the first world war.
. . that i don't condemn, it was their land, poland had capture some parts who belong to germany or prussia.
. then they went west to france for revenge and puff, . .months if only they had stop there, . Now it enters the part were I hate the nazis, . . until the invasion of france, holand and belgium the generals were in command, . . afterwards Hitler wanted to be in command, . I don't know if he became maniac, or if it was influentia of other party menbers like himmler or goring.
. . but afterwards the undeafeated war machine became crumbling, . first the stupid invasion of england and then the worst thing of all, . the alliance with Japan. . If they had not allied nor tried to invade england, and concentrated the war efforts against russia they probably would succeced.
. but alas it didn't.
So they fell Well, history over now back to the book, . .

George Elford the writer meets the exFrench Foreign Legionnaire Wagemueller the mian character when both are having a friendly conversation about hunting rifles at a range.
Wagemueller says he was a kopfjaeger and he agrees to give a series of interviews to George Elford.
The total time of these tapes covers nearlydays, Indeed, there is so much information that this information is covered in the books of Devils Guard II and III.
which I haven't read it

This fantastic story of conflict was written by George Robert Elford and was based on the firsthand interviews with "Hans Josef Wagemueller", a former Waffen SS "kopfjaeger" head hunter who miraculously survived the horrors of the Eastern front in World War II.

Hans led a large group of German Waffen SS troops through Russian lines trying to reach Western Europe after he learned of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany.
The march through Russian lines to Germany started with over one battalion of soldiers, Most didn't make it, only about one out of six, and those that did escape from the Soviets joined the French Foreign Legion along with Hans.

The Germans were helped in a small "Odessa" like organization, an underground German organization that did try to help German War Veterans.
However, this organization was quickly crushed by the Allies byat the latest, Most of the Waffen SS who joined the French Foreign Legion were a step ahead of the Allied hangman.

Note: Wagemueller's journey through Russia to Germany is the stuff of legends, A prequel novel of this adventure should have been written, Hans treats the journey as not much more than an arduous side note to the greater tale of Vietnam.
Hans is brutally honest in his opinions about the Allies in WWII,
He thought the Soviets were subhuman, Communism was a blot on humanity, and the Americans were nearly as bad as the Soviets in the debasement of Germany and its citizens.


These facts are not found in your typical Russian, American, or German history books.
The plain truth in Germany after WWII was it was the first war in which the common soldier was held responsible for collective crimes as individuals.
So, the American Army held the whole Waffen SS as guilty of war crimes in the prisoner massacrers during the Battle of the Bulge.
The French Foreign Legion was fighting a bloody war in Indochina, The Foreign Legion has a policy of ignoring the past of any enlistee it's done to this day.
So, Hans joined the Foreign Legion and spent the next five years fighting against the fiercely determined Viet Min guerrillas.
At first the French have old war hatred against the exGerman solders soldats, However, after a French Foreign Legion battalion is destroyed to the last man by the Communists the commanding officer of the German Legionnaires, Colonel Hassong, gives the German Waffen SS a free hand in offensive operations.
The Germans, when out of the French Garrison fort, actually adopt their old rank structure again and address each other in German.
The French Waffen SS adopt their old antiterrorist Soviet tactics against the Viet Min, Colonel Hassong drily comments that the reason why the German Waffen SS were so hated by the Allies was not because of war crimes but because they are so darn good at their jobs.
When the French would put the Waffen SS into a sector the insurgent activities would quickly die off, either the Communists would flee or be killed.
Indeed, the French Waffen SS does some amazingly good attacks on very little effort,

The Germans "think outside of the box" when fighting the Communists, Few other units would be their equal, This book will quickly explain why the USA lost the war in Vietnam and could lose the war on Islamic Terrorists.
Bluntly, war is war and there are few real innocents in any area, Strumfuerher Wagemueller and his Waffen SS soldats knew the score terrorists must be hunted down and exterminated.
Presently, Western Civilization, with its many P, C. encumbrances, may not be up to the task of eliminating the true threat that all of terrorism is making toward civilization.
Conversely, Wagemuller tolerated no rape nor individual war crimes in his command, which was a pratice in the German War Machine, . . Rommel was one of the old general breed which didn't tolerate raping or other crimes, It is docuument as several german soldiers die after raping or so, . . Several soldiers who admitted to a rape and were nearly summarily executed,

Wagemueller's ways of waging war are hinted at in the director's cut version of the movie "Apocalypse Now".
Marlon Brando's character, playing the mad Colonel Kurtz, says that he could win the war in Vietnam if he had ",of the right kind of soldiers".
Kurt's character was actually referring to the dedicated, tough, and determined Germans who crushed the Communists in the earlys.
Wagemueller had mostly contempt for America's way of waging war, The American soldiers were ill trained, The officers were poor leaders who often were just "ninetydaywonders" with little more training than the common troops.
I consider this book a clear introduction to the mental psychology needed to wage an antiterrorist war.

First, you must have well trained soldiers to wage a successful antiterrorist war, Activated Guard units with a limited tour of duty soldiers are not the equal of well trained and well led antiterrorist fighters like Wagemueller's Waffen SS Legion.
Second, you must have a "hearts and mind" program, Wagemueller and his people actually debated a Communist Commissar,
The people of the villages will listen to a reasoned debate, Third, the sources of terrorist activity must be destroyed, Hans and his Waffen SS battalion were fantastic at finding terrorist bases, destroying them and exterminating the terrorists.
More than one raid was made into Communist China and destroyed millions of dollars worth of supplies.
Last, the

antiterrorist military army must be backed up by a willing government and press, Unfortunately, the French government and French press both undermined the Waffen SS war on the French war on terror.

In less than five weeks inthe press cut off support for the successful antiterror operations.
In less than three years the French lost IndoChina, Wagemueller and his Waffen SS soldiers all resigned from the French Foreign Legion, Most returned back to Germany, Many, like Wagemueller, took Asian wives and lived in their new adopted homeland, The Fatherland was destroyed inand they had no wish to return to something wrecked and violated.


This is a book about warriors,

Now I will put some references at how to fight terrorism, . .

The unawareness of existence of communism, but patriotic fighting, the white man bring misery, rape and diseases.
this was how many commissars told the backwards people of vietnam who were the white people.
. . this reminds me of how the native american saw the europeans, .

They did a contest between a commissar chinese and a german, The war of mind
The interview of the german to newspappers, The pressure of information. . sometimes it's not good to have so much information, . . We see it each day, . . in a couple of weeks ago, the pope was debating something in a university and quote some medieval literature, the media to sell newspapers and audiance, told and show only that part.
. that provoked some stupid resistance from the arabs and even kill some people on the progress, who were the evil doers the arabs or the journalists

Some tactics of the German to Viet Min
Arsenic in water and rat poison
They put women and children from a village which they knew they were colaborators for the terrorists in their trunks and start yelling the name of their husbands and sons, telling them their sons and womens were in the cars.
. so they would kill them also,
When leaving a place like headquarters or a garrison to strike the terrorists, they left in the wrong direction and then went into the jungle and move into the right direction.

Other was to make a fake camp in a place then sleep around the it.

The communist song to elude the viet mi and catch them anaware, . .
The constant regards against the french generals, which don't win a war since napoleon
Leaving behind some snipers when the main army passed a field or a town.
. . if the peasents try to contact the guerrila they would be shot

Viet Min to French
They cut their right and then their left arms, then broke their legs, and then shot them in the head.

They went into a garrison, and kill them all, and strip them off, Afterwards they would put bombs in everything, in the corps, and things laying around, One effective was to put excrements in a well to poison them,
The old people fighting and the use of childs to catch anaware the french soldiers
The kill of innocent, even people with a red cross in plain view.

And the worst of all, the use of propaganda, . . When a village was killed by a plague or if the communist kill it, they would put them in some horrific way, then take shots with a camera and blame the germans nazis.
. the publish in all newspappers and sent to the "free World"

One thing he said that I enjoyed a lot.
. Hans had a theory if they wanted to fight communists the free world would have to build Iron Walls around all the countries of communist and then stop broadcasting, signalling, and talking with them.
. they should block everything. When the journlist asked what about the french and everywhere communists Well if they liked it so much they should be sent to communists countries.
. . they in their countries had everything, a job, free speech and everything all, everything the communists don't go well with.
. . the communists in the free world are stupid, because they didn't live in a communist world, so they are living a illusion.
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Well . this was a great book, everything was great, I would give it,
I suggest this book to everyone, special the united states generals and military,
This book must be put in practise if the world want to fight terrorists, . . as the american should have done in the vietnam war and in the afegnistan and Iraq.
. . oh well .