Valluy had units of the French Foreign Legion, about which so much has been written, and which included within it a sizable number of ex-Nazis.3 Most legionnaires in Indochina in 1947 were indeed Germans in their midtwenties who had gone into the Wehrmacht young and knew no occupation but war, who had helped conquer France in 1940, and who bore scars from wounds suffered in Russia, Poland, or Romania.
