page_title: Free Arabian Legion
section_title: Units
hierarchical_section_title: Free Arabian Legion / Units
context_page_description: The Free Arabian Legion was the collective name of several Nazi German units formed from Arab volunteers from the Middle East and North Africa during World War II.
context_section_description: Hellmuth Felmy had by June been given command of Army Group Southern Greece and was to continue the raising of the German-Arab units through Sonderstab F, which had now been expanded and "should be the central field office for all issues of the Arab world, which affect the Wehrmacht". Therefore, the two units Sonderverband 287 and Sonderverband 288 were created. Sonderverband 288 contained only a small proportion of Arab soldiers. However, the term Free Arabian Legion was not the name of any specific unit, but an all-encompassing name of all Arabic units in the German Army.
caption: A soldier from the Free Arabian Legion depicted in a propaganda photo taken in German-occupied Greece in September 1943
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