Magazine, Signal, No. 1, February 1942, French Edition, LVF

German propaganda magazine, Signal, first issue of February 1942, showing a bearded Landser lighting his pipe on the front cover.

Original French language edition.

Two color pages are dedicated to the Légion des Volontaires Français contre le Bolchevisme (Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism).

Created in July 1941 on the initiative of the leaders of the main collaborationnist parties, the LVF was intended for building a French fighting unit attached to the Wehrmacht and designed for being deployed in the USSR. The volunteers who had passed the various tests were eventually incorporated in Infanterie-Regiment 638 of the Heer.

Following a harsh baptism of fire in the winter of 1941 at the outskirts of Moscow, the unit was reorganized and subsequently deployed in present-day Belarus to conduct anti-partisan warfare for the next two years, its remnants being eventually transferred to the Waffen-ᛋᛋ in November 1944. It is estimated that the actual strength of the LVF never exceeded 6,000 troops.

Complete and in good overall condition.