An Ordinary Father – In the Footsteps of Alfred Douroux, the LVF and the Waffen SS
An Ordinary Father – In the Footsteps of Alfred...

An Ordinary Father – In the Footsteps of Alfred Douroux, the LVF and the Waffen SS

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On 27 March 1943, Alfred Douroux — Freddy to his friends, to the judges and to the police — enlisted in the Wehrmacht with the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme, the LVF.

He pursued his career as a military collaborator in the Waffen SS, fighting in May 1945 among the ruins of Berlin, "a white silk scarf around his neck and a cigar clenched between his teeth", in his own words. The "veterans" imposed a sanitised narrative: by fighting the Red Army, Freddy and his comrades had been courageous soldiers.

It took Philippe Douroux, Freddy's son, six years of investigation to break a family and national silence: 10,000 French men were indeed the fervent accomplices of monstrous massacres perpetrated in Byelorussia between 1942 and 1944. Their testimonies, writings and images make it possible to establish a different truth.

In this important book, prefaced by historian Johann Chapoutot, Philippe Douroux reveals a little-known and striking chapter of military collaboration.

 

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Author 1
Philippe Douroux
Publication date
February 2025
Pages
365
Cover
Paperback
Format
14.8 cm × 21.9 cm
Language
French
Publisher
Flammarion

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