The Flemish Legion - Langemarck

Himmler encouraged to raise, on 3 April 1941, a second volunteer reginment for young men from Flanders, Holland and Denmark.  This was the Freiwilligenstandarte Nordwest.  They also had a cuff title Nordwest witch was only used several months…  The 1st, 6th and 8th Companies of the Nordwest Regiment were Flemish.

This is one of the rarest Flemish cufftitle that exist.  Only some 8 titles are known in collections..  The man on the picture is a volunteer of the 3. kp. of the Flemish legion from Hasselt.  He lost his leg during the war.

Here you have almost the complete collection of cufftitles that could be worn by a flemish volunteer: you see the Nordwest RZM the freiw legion flandern : RZM - bevo - Flatwire (officer) Langemarck : RZM - bevo - flatwire (officer) with all different types of flemis lion shields (locale fabrication - german fabrication) On the bottom of the picture you see the very rare bevo wallonien cufftitle with two armshields.

Here you see a soldbuch and urkunde of a Flemish member of the Kriegsberichter Zug Kurt Eggers. The SS StuG jacket has a Bevo Kurt Eggers cufftitle.

 

Here you see some items of the Flemish NSJV and Germanischer Landdienst