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Louis, Jean-Marie

Date of birth:
March 2nd, 1912 (Moreuil, France)
Date of death:
September 24th, 1977 (Lion d'Angers, France)
Nationality:
French (1870-present, Republic)

Biography

00.09.1939-00.06.1940: medical doctor - Campaign in France
00.05.1941: sentenced to death by the Germans for keeping a stock of weapons at his parents home located in Versailles
00.06.1941: sentence commuted to ten years in prison and proposed to join the LVF whilst in custody
26.09.1942: released
11.11.1942: embarked at Gueret for the Russian Front
31.01.1943: arrived at the III. Bataillon, Inf.Reg. 638 - LVF as leutnant and doctor deputy chief medic. Max Lelongt
11.08.1943: MIA ivo Krasnyj after an ambush by partisans, captured by the soviet
12.08.1943-08.11.1943: used as medicby the soviet to treat the soviet partisans wounded in action
08.11.1943: escaped from the Soviet to the German lines
00.02.1944: medical officer, rejoined the LVF in the depot located at Greifenberg
01.09.1944: transferred to the Franz. SS-Grenadier-Ausbildungs- und Ersatz-Bataillon
00.09.1944: hostile to a transfer in the Waffen SS, demobilized and used as doctor in the hospital of Gollnow in Pomerania
00.03.1945: captured by the soviet troops, he was offered to serve in the Red Army in the hospital in Massow as a captain and accepted
00.10.1945: discharged, showed up at the French delegation in Berlin, immediately identified and emprisoned in Tegel
00.01.1946: sentenced to ten years of hard labor in Versailles and sent to Struthof camp
00.05.1946: finished his penalty as doctor in a civil hospital
00.00.1956: released and established at Ville-sur-Tourbe before expatriating to Algeria
00.05.1962: rapatriated from Algeria to Lion d'Angers

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant)
Unit:
10. Kompanie, III. Bataillon, Infanterie-Regiment 638, LVF, 286. Sicherungs-Division
Awarded on:
1944
1 citation at the level of the Legion:
1 palm
Croix de Guerre L.V. F. (Vichy)
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Sous-Lieutenant (Second Lieutenant)
Unit:
III. Bataillon, Infanterie-Regiment 638, LVF, 286. Sicherungs-Division
Awarded on:
March 13th, 1944
Chevalier de l' Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:
Sous-Lieutenant (Second Lieutenant)
Unit:
III./ IR. 638 - LVF
Awarded on:
1943
Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse

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