The Western Allies staged landings at Normandy in June 1944 and soon began to advance into the rest of France. The LVF was ordered to be dismantled in July 1944 and its soldiers incorporated into the Waffen-SS, which had begun to integrate French recruits since July 1943. The LVF was officially disbanded on 1 September 1944 by which time most of France had been Liberated. Its remaining personnel were integrated, together with other French volunteers, into the new "Charlemagne" Waffen Grenadier Brigade of the SS ("Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS "Charlemagne"") on the Eastern Front. After suffering heavy losses in Pomerania, the Brigade was officially reclassified as a division in February 1945 with a remaining strength of just 7,340 men, which was significantly reduced in March 1945. Around 100 men remaining in the unit participated in the Battle in Berlin in April–May 1945. Reduced to approximately 30, they finally surrendered to the Red Army near the Potsdamer rail station.