American Free Corps (For Glory)

The American Free Corps(AFC) or more popularly known has The George Washington Brigade was a Foreign Waffen-SS unit made out of American P.O.W's.

The idea of a AFC came when the Kriegsmarine had captured American Troopers in the Atlantic during the Battle Of The Atlantic in 1942. The Germans began using American hate for communism to their advantage and began producing propaganda encouraging the American P.O.W's to join the Wehrmacht in order to fight the "Red Hordes" has a result of this many American P.O.W's joining the Wehrmacht.

Then German Field Marshall Ritter Von Leeb had convinced Hitler to form the AFC and the first AFC units were created.

The first AFC unit was a infantry Unit supported by the 1st. AFC Sub-Machine Gun Company and the second AFC Unit was a Light Infantry Unit supported by the 2nd. AFC Rifle Company. Leeb wanted to use the AFC to lift the stalemate at Leningrad to stop all Soviet activities in the Baltic Sea.

The 2 AFC units had a total of 1,985 men.

The first AFC unit would arrive in Leningrad in September,1943 and had meet up with the British Free corps(BFC) and the Division Azul(DA) and began fighting the "Red Hordes" in the southern and central districts of Leningrad. The BFC,DA and the AFC had suffered horrific losses.

The DA: 1,986 The BFC: 1,778 The AFC: 1,199

All this Foreign Divisions were responsible for the siege of Leningrad lasting 1 more year.

In 1944 the AFC would gain additional recruits from other American P.O.W's that were forced recruits however many of them were defectors or willing reruits. The AFC with these additional recruits had up to 5,785 men replacing most of the loses of the AFC in Leningrad.

In 1945 the AFC arrived with the BFC in Stalingrad to relieve the German army that had been encircled however both the AFC and BFC had failed stop the "Red" advance but were avail to relieve the exhausted German army. The AFC would participate in the Capture of Crimea and up to 1,789 AFC soldiers were awarded the Crimea Shield however many AFC soldiers died up to 1,974 died in the Crimea and up to 1,796 died in Stalingrad. The AFC later replaced this loses by recruiting more American P.O.W's.

After the war the AFC had been integrated into the American Free Army(AFA) of the "National American Provisional government"(NAPG) that was based in Berlin.