The French Officer Who Joined the SS: Paul Gamory-Dubourdeau
A decorated hero of the Great War. A career officer of the French Foreign Legion. A holder of the Légion d’Honneur.
Then, in 1943, he put on the black uniform of the Waffen-SS.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson examines the life and crimes of Paul-Marie Gamory-Dubourdeau — the professional soldier who rose to command the first French SS volunteer brigade and later served in the SS Main Office in Berlin. From the trenches of World War I to the ranks of the Charlemagne Division, this is the story of a quiet, calculated betrayal that still unsettles France’s wartime…
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