The Story of the SS by Al Cimino

Author:Al Cimino
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Limited
Published: 2017-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

Few army units anywhere can have been as unpopular as the British Free Corps, who were desperate to recruit anyone that they could

Americans in the Waffen-SS

Although there was a British Free Corps there was no corresponding American unit. True enough, there was the American Free Corps, also known as the George Washington Brigade, but it was a fictitious unit of the Waffen-SS made up for propaganda purposes. But that did not mean that there were no Americans in the Waffen-SS. A number of Americans fought alongside the Germans, but they were spread out among different units. However, most of them died and little was done to investigate their cases. A selection of American Waffen-SS recruits follows:

Andy Beneschan

Born 1 September 1918 in New York, he was an SS sergeant before being killed in action in Bosnia on 16 April 1945.

Charles Braschwitz

Born 17 August 1911 in New Jersey, he became a sergeant in the SS-Polizei before being killed in action on 7 May 1945 at Laibach, Slovenia.

Peter Delaney (aka Pierre de la Ney du Vair)

Born in Louisiana, he is believed to have served in the French collaborationist Légion des Volontaires Français and as an SS captain in the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers before being killed in 1945.

Lucas Diel

Born 28 December 1912 in New York, he was an SS corporal before dying in Hungary on 9 December 1944.

Andreas Hauser

Born 30 August 1893 in Los Angeles, he was an SS lance corporal until he was killed in action on 18 January 1945 at Welikij in Ukraine.

Charles MacDonald

Born 7 May 1922 in Buffalo, New York, he reportedly rose to become an SS second lieutenant before being killed in action in Estonia on 14 March 1944.

Martin James Monti

Born 1910 in St Louis of an Italian-Swiss father and a German mother, he was a second lieutenant in the US Army Air Corps before he went AWOL in October 1944. He flew to Milan in a stolen plane and worked as a propaganda broadcaster under the pseudonym Martin Wiethaupt. Later he met Peter Delaney, who probably arranged for him to enter the Waffen-SS as an SS second lieutenant in the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers. At the end of the war he returned to Italy where he surrendered to the United States forces, claiming that the SS uniform he was wearing had been given to him by partisans. He was charged only with desertion and was sentenced to 15 years’ hard labour. His other crimes had not come to light. His sentence was commuted and he rejoined the United States Air Corps, but in 1948 he was discharged and picked up by the FBI. He was charged with treason and sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment, but he was paroled in 1960.

Edwin or Erwin Peter

Born 12 March 1918 in New York, he rose to become an SS company sergeant major before being killed in action on 2 July 1941 in Latvia.

Raymond George Rommelspacher

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