Terlina Paul - Frederick Preece - Emilio Del Bel Belluz
The snow and blood. At the front with Degrelle - A Survivor's Story of Ninety Wallonie
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Photography Henri Paul Moreau alias Terlina taken from the book "Legion Wallonie 1941 - 1945" by Jean Mabire and Eric Lefèvre published by Editions d'Art et Historie Europe in 1988 on page 126 there is a black and white photograph of a boy in the valley of the German Wehrmacht uniform before the transition in the Waffen SS. The caption reads: umo of pimi enrolled in the Legion, Sergeant Henri Moreau, a native of the region Borinage, which has always served in the 4th company. Injured in a serious Noëlla August 25, 1944 in a coup howitzer that both arms amputated, his memories will collect in a work entitled "La Neige et le Sang" signed with the pseudonym Paul Terlina: http://
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Manifesto of the Legion Wallonie controcopertina reproduced in the volume :
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Contents: Preface, The reason for a choice of Frederick Prizzi; La Neige et le Sang Fred Preece, The snow is red with Emilio del Bel Belluz, Henri Moreau by Harm Wulf, April 1, 2008 by Emilio del Bel Belluz, Leon Degrelle , as I have known Henri Moreau, The Snow and Blood: Chapter I Ukraine: Back to the Front, on the defensive Mochny;'s forest Tecline; A isba in the mud, folding under fire; Terror Starosseliè; The "horseshoe" of Derenkowez; Nowo-Bouda, our great battle, Chenderofka, the last stop; Heroic breakthrough. Chapter II, Estonia: Chess game in Estonia, the reconquest of the mill Patska; Kambia remains in our hands; One hundred and fifty against three thousand, our last frontier is sull'Embach, A Noelle, 25 August 1944, the hospital ship in the Baltic; A fantastic escape.
"Far from our country without news of our family, without much hope of winning this war, but fanatically attached to our oath and our ideals, we are more sensitive than ever to this camaraderie that unites all the volunteers Waffen-SS. From this Estonia, Far Eastern, in two battles, we experience something unique. We have won everything: our youth, our honor. We are determined to continue on this path freely chosen, without the worries of the blows of the enemy, of mockery and judgments. We only import our comrades, we belong to the same world that has nothing in common with some small stones, those who think only of themselves, quietly awaiting the end of the war. "This book contains the extraordinary story written by one of three survivors of the first contingent of the Legion Wallonie. "Published in 1972 by Henri Moreau, aka Paul Terlina, is a moving and dramatic testimony of the fighting on the Russian front and the odyssey of the losers after the war. One of the most beautiful stories of the twentieth century, able to overcome the stroke of a pen of authors such as Jünger and Degrelle. A story to read all in one go, that will win and surprise also a deep knowledge of those events.
"La Neige et le Sang" by Federico Prizzi in Literature - Tradition No 27 March 2004 page 33
"La Neige et le Sang", published by Editions de la Pensée Moderne in Paris in 1972, is a beautiful book, unusual in Italy, tells a war story that happened during the Second World War World. In libraries or used book on the stands if they are a lot of books, like this one, are written by soldiers and survivors of the toughest fighting that ended the war, often years later, he recounted the events. Then the reader will wonder why talk of this book? For two main reasons. First, for a writer, Paul Terlina young militant Rexist before the war, considered by Degrelle as one of the most faithful among the "old guard", will participate from the start, the first battles of the Legion Wallonie "between Don and the Dnieper. It will, in addition, with Degrelle and another soldier, the sole survivor at the end of the war, the first contingent of 1,200 volunteers who left the valleys Gare du Nord in Brussels on August 8, 1941. Enlisted as a volunteer simply ending the Second World War, with the rank of Oberscharführer (Marshal) of the Waffen-SS decorated with the Iron Cross and "Nahkampfspange" medal was awarded to those who had hired more than thirty melee combat. Terlina, therefore, is certainly one of the greatest connoisseurs of what was the problem of voluntarism and European valley under the banner of the Third Reich. Another reason why we must talk about this book is also because the facts recounted here deal with the volunteers of the 28th Division of the Waffen-SS who fought in the land of the Soviets. In Italy the only texts found on "Wallonie" are, above all, those of the Sentinel of Italy who has translated most of the books written by Leon Degrelle. These texts are, however, for those who want to deepen their Knowledge about these soldiers, the only point of view of their leader Leon Degrelle. Here, then, a book which, although limited to the fighting in the autumn and winter of 1943-44 in Ukraine and Estonia in the summer of 1944, provides more information on those dramatic months that saw hundreds of thousands of Europeans fight and die to defend Europe from Communism. The first part of "La neige et le sang" is dedicated by the author in the siege of Tcherkassy. At the end of November 1943, the Walloon Legion was incorporated in the Waffen-SS as SS Sturmbrigade "Wallonien, flanked Division" Wiking "Gille General to participate in the offensive for the reconquest of Kiev. The valleys are so entered in the eighth German Army in January del'44, oversees the flank of Army Group South to Bielaïa Tserkov, Cerkassy and Kirovograd. At SS Sturmbrigade "Wallonien" is assigned, in particular, face a total of seven miles, between the old village of Mochny, located near the forest of Tcherkassy and the great river Dnieper, and the village of Baibusy. The valleys are, therefore, in the easternmost point of the deployment of German. Are now subject to the incessant attacks of the Red Army in a few months that will be able to create a "pocket" of 45 km from north to south and 15 to 20 from west to east closing, so their pincer grip at 50 km behind the valley stations. Struggling in terrible conditions with the cold, mud, snow, without anti-tank weapons, attacked by the terrible Siberian infantry battalions supported also by the ferocious female soldiers, these fighters will guarantee for Europe, together with their comrades of the "Wiking", with enormous efforts, the retreat of more than 50 000 men closed in the "kessel" Tcherkassy that threatens to turn into a new Stalingrad. Belloserje, Starosselje, Derenkowe, Arbusino, Chanderowka, Nowo Bouda, Lissianka are all the stages of a bloody retreat, composed of continuous counter attacks and dynamic contrasts, which at the cost of huge losses, allow the men to reach the Reich Panzer Korps under General Manstein that Hitler sent to their aid. The odyssey of Tcherkassy, \u200b\u200bfor the Axis forces, ending with 35,000 survivors and 18,000 people dead or missing. The price paid by the Walloons will be very high. Of the 2000 volunteers arrived at the front in November '43, well in 1400 will be the fallen, including the commander of the "Wallonie" Lucien Lippert. In the second part of the book, Terlina said, however, the events of another hot area of \u200b\u200bthe Eastern Front, Estonia. In particular, the valleys of the Narva "Kampfgruppe Ruelle" are deployed, having marched in April 1944, among a cheering crowd in Charleroi and Brussels, together with new recruits of the SS Sturmbrigade "Wallonie". These new recruits will be that the young Marshal Terlina, one of the few surviving veterans of the Brigade must train, a few miles from the front in just 4 weeks. In the summer of 1944, the 3rd Armored Corps of the Waffen SS, commanded by Gruppenführer Steiner, keeps the industry from Narva in Estonia to Lake Peipus. The valleys are so side by side with volunteers from the Norwegian, Dutch, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, and, together, to fight an enemy that now, victorious over most of its territory, aims to pursue Reich troops outside its borders. In an increasingly threatened by communism, the situation is dramatic: the civilian population, especially women and children, terrified by the atrocities of the "liberators" Soviet flees to Tallinn to take the last ships crossing the Baltic. To defend these poor people as well as volunteers of the Waffen-SS thousands of Estonian men, often devoid of ideological adherence to National Socialism, they fight only to defend their families. In an unequal battle, the author sees the repeated attacks die during most of those young enthusiasts, arruolatisi only to realize that dream that was Europe. And it is just as said that sacrifice is huge Terlina carried away by emotions unleashed by his ideal: "Far from our country without news of our family, without much hope of winning this war, but fanatically attached to our oath and our ideals, we are more ever sensitive to this camaraderie that unites all the volunteers of the Waffen-SS. From this Estonia, Far Eastern, including two battles, we live for something unique. We have won everything: our youth and our honor. We are determined to continue on this path freely chosen. Without concern for the blows of the enemy, of the tricks and reviews. We only import our comrades. We belong to the same world that has nothing in common with some small stones, those who think only of themselves, quietly awaiting the end of the war.. " A Noelle, 25 August 1944, Marshal Terlina was seriously wounded in combat: an enemy artillery shell of the net off his right arm and left hand. Maimed in body, but not in the spirit this young NCO, evacuated from the front of a hospital ship between immense suffering wait until the end of the war. Unfortunately, the end of the conflict for this veteran of the Waffen-SS does not also mean the end of deprivation.
In September 1945, after being transferred to various hospitals in the hope of get the prosthetics for his arms, is confined in the prison camp in Augsburg, Bavaria, which manages to escape! Captured will be prosecuted according to the judgments issued by the Nuremberg Tribunal that all the pictures of the Waffen-SS, at the rank of Oberscharführer, should be considered "war criminals". Confined in the concentration camp at Darmstadt, which is subjected to constant humiliation by his captors, mostly German immigrants from Portugal and Switzerland, will be released in August 1947 after a painful work of "denazification". Back in Belgium will be re-tried and convicted. On 2 April 1949, at age 28 and four years after the war, Paul Marshal Terlina senior SS Assault Brigade "Wallonie" Merxplas comes out of prison, ready to integrate into civilian life, but still on his lips his oath: "Mon honneur s'appelle Fidel. "
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