Peter Delaney

Peter Delaney, alias Pierre Louis de La Ney du Vair (born February 8, 1907 in Holcomb, USA, died 10 or 11 April 1945 between Bernsgrün and Mehltheuer in Germany) - Frenchman of American descent, army officer a member of the Service d'Ordre Légionnaire and the French Militia and an Officer of the French Volunteer Legion against Bolshevism and SS-Standart Kurt Eggers during the Second World War. Curriculum vitae

Since 1927 he served in the French army. In 1935 he graduated from the École des Officiers de Réserve as a lieutenant. He was assigned to the 152th Infantry Regiment, which was stationed in Colmar, Alsace. He participated in the defeat of the French campaign in May-June 1940. He made an oath to marshal Philippe Pétain, the leader of France Vichy. In 1941 he worked in the Italian armistice. At the end of this year he joined the French Veterans' Legion, then the Service d'Ordre Légionnaire (SOL), forming a branch at Annecy. He opened an officer's school there. In 1942, Joseph Darnand, co-head of Milice Française, transferred him to an officer's school in St-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or near Lyon. At the same time he started working at the Secretariat of the Militia. He established further schools in Tarbes, Agen and Toulouse. Having incorporated the SOL into Milice Française in January 1943, he founded the L'École Nationale des Cadres de la Milice Française in the Chateau d'Uriage. Peter Delaney supported the idea of ​​the National Revolution of Marshal P. Petain, which eventually led to the conflict with J. Darnand. As a result, on July 24, the head of Milice Française and 200 of his subordinates invaded the castle of Uriage. Peter Delaney joined the Franco-French Corps, formed by the Major. André Besson-Rappa in Bordeaux. Due to his strongly anti-Communist views, he joined the French Volunteer Legion against Bolshevism in 1944 (LVF). He completed his training at the LVF school in Montargis, and in April he was sent to the front as commander of 14 companies. Late in the summer, he was transferred to SS-Standart Kurt Eggers's war correspondents to Zehlendorf, serving in the SS-Hauptsturmführer. He preached on the front by mobile radio anti-Bolshevik speeches. He died on April 10, 1945 in an American attack on the road between Bernsgrün and the Mehltheuer.

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