History is full of great soldiers, most never become famous or get a lot of medals. It's true a lot of SS joined the french foreign legion, not as a unit but as legionnaires in different units.
Here's one that's interesting, not just by himself, when you read is history you get a glimpse of other great men that were conveniently forgotten by history or should I say forgotten by Hollywood.
This guy served in the finnish army, trained with the german SS, enroled in the US army, joined the Special Forces, MACV-SOG.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_T%C3%B6rni