SS-Hauptsturmführer der Reserve Léon Degrelle (in front) from 5. SS-Freiwilligen-Sturmbrigade "Wallonien" with his Walloon soldiers at the end of the Battle of Cherkassy on the Eastern Front, 8 March 1944. In the foreground is a Soviet 76,2-mm ZiS-3 cannon. Degrelle became acting commander of the brigade after the death of their first commander, Lucien Lippert, on 13 February 1944. Constant fighting and repeated attacks by enemy troops drastically reduced the brigade's members from 2,000 to only 632 men! However, until the German troops were withdrawn from the encirclement, the Russians were unable to penetrate the determined defense of the Belgian volunteers.
Source :
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek photo archive (Image-No.: 30033248)
http://alifrafikkhan.blogspot.com/2010/10/album-foto-leon-degrelle.html
https://en.topwar.ru/165494-trofejnye-sovetskie-762-mm-orudija-opyt-nemcev-vo-vtoroj-mirovoj-vojne.html
https://waralbum.ru/156837/
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