Nonsense. If all SS were war criminals, as you seem to imply, why weren't they all prosecuted as such?
Bottom line: you cannot put all SS units in the same box and assert they are all the same.
It's very easy for us to criticize. But if you were a Dutch or Belgian worker drafted into an SS unit in 1944, would you automatically be a war criminal? Would you magically adopt a willingness to shoot a mother in the face? Really?
You should be ashamed,, defending the SS. There is nothing to admire in that organization. And they have a proven track record of committing murder against large numbers of the unarmed, everywhere they went.
Worse, there are no instances of SS being the voice of reason,, or trying to stop any mass murder. They were all first class turds. Every one.
It’s fun to like a German machine gun, or be fascinated with their planes and rockets, to think an Me-262 is amazing, etc.
But the SS deserves no more respect than you would give the NKVD. A shameful group if there ever was one. Furthermore, the Wehrmacht correctly recognized their amateur status. (quietly,,, to avoid being murdered)
“But if you were a Dutch or Belgian worker drafted into an SS unit in 1944, would you automatically be a war criminal?”
Possibly not,,,but you should be ashamed of the unit in which you “served”.