Super Rare Huge Waffen SS Flanders Legion Poster for Volunteering

Super Rare Huge Waffen SS Flanders Legion Poster for Volunteering
Super rare Waffen SS Flanders Legion propaganda poster that encouraged young boys in Belgium to join up the volunteer legion to fight the communistm along with Nazi Germany. Poster is in colour and it's complete with some minor damage to the edges. Big size 100cm x 60cm , and shipping with frame ( made exaclly for this poster ). It's written in Dutch and it indicates the joining office in Amberes. The poster has the motto "Vlamingen op!" which can be translated as "Flemings on!". A very rare poster since most of them didn't survive the war! Size is 100 x 60 cm and it's framed. The Flemish Legion (Dutch: Vlaams Legioen) was a collaborationist military formation recruited among Dutch-speaking volunteers from German-occupied Belgium, notably from Flanders, during World War II. It was formed in the aftermath of the German invasion of the Soviet Union and fought on the Eastern Front in the Waffen SS alongside similar formations from other parts of German-occupied Western Europe.Established in July 1941, the Flemish Legion was envisaged by the Flemish National League (Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond, VNV) as a means of maintaining its status as the principal collaborationist party within Flanders since the German invasion of May 1940. It was formed several months after the VNV had begun recruiting Flemish volunteers for smaller Waffen SS formations and was depicted as the future army of an independent Flemish state. Amid opposition from its personnel, the roughly 1,000-strong formation was given a notionally independent status as an SS Volunteer Legion Flanders (SS-Freiwilligen Legion Flandern). It subsequently sustained heavy casualties on the Eastern Front in fighting around Leningrad.The Flemish Legion was officially disbanded in May 1943 and reformed within the Waffen-SS as the SS Assault Brigade Langemarck (SS-Sturmbrigade Langemarck). 200 soldiers refused to swear allegiance to Adolf Hitler in October 1943 and were transferred to other units or penal units. It was subsequently reorganised on several occasions and was officially designated as a division in September 1944 but remained around 2,000-strong and never expanded beyond brigade-strength. It participated in fighting in Ukraine, Estonia, and Pomerania. Its remaining personnel finally surrendered to the Red Army at Mecklenburg on 3 May 1945.Item send with frame ( made exaccly for this poster )and shipping will cost to US around 200$ in Europe around 100$ ***********This article is sent from our office in Europe**********