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I am looking for more "Foreign Volunteers" for Beltring 2008 :D You can count me in! The uniform is stil in the "workshop" :mrgreen: but will be ready in a few weeks. Sneak preview of my sewing skills 8) : Aha S.C. So you are awarding yourself the rank of Unterscharführer :lol: ...

The only member of the BFC to have served in Berlin during the battle, was Wilhelm "Bob" Rössler, the one eyed interpreter, who before joining the BFC was a member of the Wehrmacht. (The old story about a Brit called Reginald Leslie Cornford who knocked out a T34 with a panzerfaust on 27th...

Ammo issued to BFC during POW camp visits. The BFC were isuued side arms, but only three rounds per man. This was so that they could protect themselves if things turned nasty during a POW recruiting drive. It was reasoned that three rounds would be enough before the guards could come to their rescue...

I am of the opinion that all impressions should be done carefully and always take into consideration other peoples feelings. I thought I was safe reenacting British Infantry in Germany for example, until Germans came up to me and said that they were deeply offended by an impression of a unit that oc...

I'm danish, and I portray a danish SS freiwiligen. 24. Regiment Danmark of the 11. SS Nordland Division. I'm also members of MHS in Sweden where i portrayt a slightly different dane, but still i'm portrying what I myself (most likely) would have done back then, IF i had joined. I simply can't see m...

The helmet is owned by a German reenactor friend of mine, the insignia looks original and has an original feel about it. It may have been "proposed" for the BFC, or earlier L of St.G. and turned down for use. Or it may have been used by a German Flak unit, who are known to have used foreig...

You seem to have forgotten Wilhelm "Bob" Rössler the unit interpreter.
All Germans who served on the staff of the BFC, wore full BFC insignia from 20th April 1944 onwards.

I would be interested in additional information about Fred Stürmer,
can Schwartz Vogel offer a source?

Cheers, Bill.

Thanks for the useful links Mario 33

Thanks Salacious Crumb, good and accurate answer.

Cheers, Bill.

Hi John,

E-mail me at bills-bunker@bills-bunker.de

Nice to know you are here

Let me know how you got on in the USA,
Nice to have met you again in Düsseldorf.

Cheers, Bill.

Like I had already said, it changes from country to country. Two countries where the foreign volunteers were seen as heroes when they returned, were the "Division Azul" in Spain and the "Azad Hind" in India, the congress party brought out a postage stamp in 1962 marking the 20th ...

The Brits do not have problems with foreign volunteers so long as they are not British. The Belgians do not have a problem so long as I do not reenact Wallonie or Flanders Legions. In Holland God forbid anyone reenacting Landsturm Nederland! So as you see, it changes from country to country. I reena...

I am looking for more "Foreign Volunteers" for Beltring 2008

Franz repper wrote:We are working on somthing over here Bill cant say any more at the moment

Why is it, that you were one of the people I had in mind

Perhaps some of the "Mainland Europeans" would like to start a thread
about events planed in their countries for 2008?

Cheers, Bill.