Former Waffen-SS Member's Web Page

[John P. Moore]

If I am not mistaken, Dr. Adalbert Lallier is the first former member of the Waffen-SS to have his own Web site.

http://adalbertlallier.com/book

Dr. Lallier was a former member of the 7.SS-Freiwilligen Gebirgs Division “Prinz Eugen” after 1942 and was attending officer school in Leitmeritz where he witnessed a war crime in April 1945 that becomes the focus for his latest book,
“I Swear to You, Adolf Hitler, Fealty and Obedience: Sin and Retribution 2”. Dr. Lallier was the primary witness for the prosecution at the trial of the former Untersturmführer Julius Viel in Germany in 2001 that resulted in a conviction. The other officer school classmates who witnessed the crime all had memory lapses when called to testify before the court. I met Dr. Adalbert Lallier in Montreal in 1996 while attending a telecommunications convention after having been referred to him by one of his former comrades from the “Prinz Eugen” that I had met at a veteran’s reunion in Germany. In 1999 Dr. Lallier wrote the Foreword for my publication, “Führerliste der Waffen-SS”. Dr. Lallier has since retired as a university professor in Canada and is now publishing books under his own name in both printed and e-book format. I believe that he writes from a perspective not seen previously in books about the Waffen-SS and I recommend them.

John

[Terry OToole]

thanks for the heads up John , is this book a novel based on certain facts or a memoir of true events ? i couldn t quite clarify from the write up ! with it being seemingly part of a 2 book set

[Terry OToole]

researched it myself ! its a novel !

[John P. Moore]

Yes, it's a novel, partly based on fact together with the author's wartime experiences. Where the author uses pseudonyms in the text, he does point out the actual name of the person he is writing about. However, in some instances he stretches things a bit too far in the text in my view. Ustuf. Julius Viel was not a Ritterkreuzträger and the commander of the SS signal school at Leitmeritz was SS-Oberführer Ernst Kemper who lived in West Germany after the war under his own name and was never a member of the East Germany STASI.

john