CONROD SCHELLONG. NAZI
Conrad Schellong was born in Dresden on February 7, 1910. He joined the Nazi Party and SS in 1934, serving as a guard officer at Dachau and Sachsenberg concentration camps 1934-38. Promoted Major in the SS "Wiking" Division, he was assigned to the Flemish Legion as its commander in July, 1942, remaining with the Flemish volunteers through the end of the war, by then a lieutenant colonel. Schellong distinguished himself both in leading foreign volunteers and in tactical handling of troops, earning several decorations with his several wounds. After the war, he emigrated to the United States, but because he had not reported his service at the concentration camps, as required in the immigration questionnaire, was later tried and ordered deported in 1983, having beed stripped of US citizenship the previous year.
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