A lot of them joined the French Foreign Legion after the war.
A lot of them joined the French Foreign Legion after the war. ................. The Devil’s brigade, served in the early days of Viet Nam. Many fought against the Russians on the eastern front. The French put them to use, and kept them from being turned over to the Russians for war crimes. The Afrika Korps boys enjoyed America, and our southern fried chicken. They were pre Russia captives. Basically nice guys and happy to have been out of the war. No SS troops in Afrika if I remember correctly, Rommel wanted no part of them. I had a discussion with one of them at our local Mercedes dealership about 20 yrs ago. He came back to the USA to live in FLA. There is a cemetery in the St Pete area where some of the Devil Brigade are buried.
We had PW camps in the farming areas of FLA. They were used as farm laborers during the war, as were many others in our southern tier. The die hard nazis were kept in separate camps out of the way with lots of wire and guard towers. I am sure there are many more graves out there.
I guess we ran out of war criminals so now we are after graves? 75 years ago who is left? Maybe they are hiding at the south pole, or the moon base? What have we learned from history other than it keeps repeating itself and man’s inhumanity to man continues.
Yes, I have the book “Legionnaire” by Simon Murray. Good read.