Interview with Oswald Van Ooteghem, Flemish WW2 veteran of Legion Flandern & SS Langemarck Division

Interview with Untersturmführer Oswald Van Ooteghem, Flemish veteran of the Legion Flandern, war reporter and member of 27. SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division ’Langemarck’ (SS-Jugend-Bataillon 27), 1998 phone interview. Another example of the many non-Germans who fought with Germany against Bolshevism. “We never saw them [Germans] as the enemy, quite the opposite. They were very good to us, viewing the Flemish as brothers. When German soldiers came into the town (in 1940), the leaders drank beer with them before they set off for France. Under the occupation our life improved, there was much work and the people were content.“ “...the whole reason we fought was to safeguard Christian Europe and its people. Just like today we were under attack from forces who wanted to see our culture and religion disappear.“ “I can say that freely and with conviction, the SS was pro-religious...“ For educational purposes.