Collaborationist unit in German-occupied France during World War II
Bezen Perrot
Active
1943–1945
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Branch
Waffen-SS Sicherheitsdienst
Type
Intelligence service
Size
80 (maximum strength)
Engagements
Western Front (World War II)
Anti-partisan operations in France
Battle of Normandy
Commanders
Notable commanders
Célestin Lainé
Military unit
The Bezen Perrot (Breton; lit.'"Perrot Unit"'), officially the Breton SS Armed Formation (German: Bretonische Waffenverband der SS) was a small collaborationist unit established by Breton nationalists in German-occupied France during World War II. It was made up of personnel from Lu Brezhon, a Breton nationalist militia, under the leadership of Célestin Lainé.
The unit became operational in January 1944 and participated in the arrest of French Jews, labour service evaders, and resistance members in Brittany under the leadership of the German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) secret police as well as a number of mass murders of civilians. From August 1944, following the Allied landings in Normandy, it was gradually withdrawn easterwards into France and then Nazi Germany where it was dissolved in the aftermath of the German surrender. Part of the group, including Lainé, managed to evade arrest, while others were imprisoned or executed in the post-war pursuit of wartime collaborators. Bezen Perrot left a legacy of brutality, hampering attempts to form an independent Breton state.
The BezenPerrot (Breton; lit. '"Perrot Unit"'), officially the Breton SS Armed Formation (German: Bretonische Waffenverband der SS) was a small collaborationist...
without incident. A number of Breton nationalists choose to join the BezenPerrot organization, a German militia led by Célestin Lainé and Alan Heusaff...
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round-the-world sailor and owner of Oranmore Castle. Célestin Lainé, leader of the BezenPerrot SS unit, lived in Oranmore after World War II. Hildegarde Naughton, politician[citation...
scene of torture and killings by the Nazis and by the collaborationist BezenPerrot, in 1944. The inhabitants of Uzel are known in French as uzelais. Fulgence...
primary school teacher but in his early twenties joined the separatist BezenPerrot militia (1943–44), for which he was sentenced to death in absentia at...
Religieuse de la France. ISSN 1255-2364. Hamon, Kristian (2004). Le BezenPerrot : 1944, des nationalistes bretons sous l'uniforme allemand. Fouesnant:...
Feutren was born in 1922 and joined the Bezon Perrot in the 1930s. During the occupation of France the BezenPerrot group collaborated with the Waffen-SS. He...
French Resistance. Milice - a paramilitary force raised by Vichy France. BezenPerrot - a comparable Breton nationalist formation Business collaboration with...
This journal succeeded Breiz Atao. However Célestin Lainé, head of BezenPerrot, an SS-affiliated militia, printed a one-off special issue in 1944, containing...
maint: location missing publisher (link) Hamon, Kristian (2004). Le BezenPerrot 1944, des nationalistes bretons sous l'uniforme allemand. Hamon 2004...
esotericism Sidos received in prison in 1946–1948 from Marcel Bibé, a former BezenPerrot member. During his internment, Sidos began to write about druidism and...
August 1986 404651 1940 7475729 Célestin Lainé Born 1908. Leader of the BezenPerrot. Fled from a post war sentence of death. Died 1983 Dublin Ireland Walter...
Relecq-Kerhuon, Les nationalistes bretons sous l'occupation Yoran Embanner, Le BezenPerrot : 1944, des nationalistes bretons sous l'uniforme allemand Skol Vreizh...
the defeat of the Nazis, Weisgerber assisted the members of the Breton BezenPerrot SS militia, led by Célestin Lainé, providing them with false papers to...
spent most of his time reading and running. He met Marcel Bibé, a former BezenPerrot militant who initiated him in Celtic esoterism. Sidos then began to write...
on May 5 1945. Carlingue, French auxiliaries working for the Gestapo. BezenPerrot, a Breton nationalist formation associated with the SS Wieviorka, O....
Nevertheless, Berthou's involvement remained purely literary. Daniel Leach, "BezenPerrot: The Breton nationalist unit of the SS, 1943-5", e-Keltoi Ronan Carléon...
of BezenPerrot, the pro-German militia affiliated with the SS. She married him on his return to Paris. She fled from Rennes in the BezenPerrot convoy...
Brittany in WW2 Belligerents United States Free France Nazi Germany BezenPerrot Commanders and leaders George Patton John Shirley Wood Pierre Herbart...
guerre fut le Juif Abrahami, né … dans le ghetto de Constantinople.» Daniel Leach, "BezenPerrot: The Breton nationalist unit of the SS, 1943-5", e-Keltoi...
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