Editing British Free Corps (section)

==Commanders==
The BFC did not have a "commander" ''per se'' as it was the intention of the SS to appoint a British commander when a suitable British officer came forward. However, three German Waffen-SS officers acted as the {{lang|de|Verbindungsoffizier}} ("liaison officer") between the {{lang|de|[[SS-Hauptamt]] Amtsgruppe D/3}}, which was responsible for the unit and the British volunteers, and in practice they acted as the unit commander for disciplinary purposes at least. These were:

* {{lang|de|SS-Hauptsturmführer}} Hans Werner Roepke: September 1943 – November 1944{{sfnp|Weale|1994|p=114}}
* {{lang|de|SS-Obersturmführer}} Dr Walter Kühlich: November 1944 – April 1945{{sfnp|Weale|1994|p=149}}
* {{lang|de|SS-Hauptsturmführer}} Dr Alexander Dolezalek: April 1945{{sfnp|Weale|1994|p=160}}

A number of sources mention the involvement of Brigadier [[Leonard Parrington]], a British Army officer captured by the Germans in Greece in 1941.<ref>See, for example, {{Cite book |title=Waffen-SS: Hitler's Elite Guard at War |first=George H. |last=Stein |publisher=Cornell University Press |date=1966 |page=190}}</ref> This was based on a misunderstanding by some of the British volunteers after Parrington in the summer of 1943 had visited the POW "holiday camp" at Genshagen, in the southern suburbs of Berlin, as representative of the Senior British POW, Major General [[Victor Fortune]]. Parrington had told the assembled prisoners that he "knew the purpose of the camp"<ref>Weale (2014), Kindle Location 1961.</ref> and the BFC volunteers who were there took this to mean that he approved of the unit. In reality, Parrington had accepted Genshagen at face value as a rest centre for POWs.