Posted on 12/26/2012 4:55:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
The British soldiers in that film were nothing short of saints.
I read where the wives of the officers, Himmler, Hess, Goring and others were sent to the internment camp at Goggingen. Until after the Trials. Made to sleep in the same bug infested cabins their prisoners were made to use and fed mushed peas twice a day. Ironic and very amusing to me. Justice.
We had relatives at Buchenwald.
According to some looking around, it says Geiser was “forced” into the SS at age 17, in 1942.
From what I learned, the SS did not conscript until very late in the war. Especially not for the SS-Totenkopf; the Waffen-SS needed the warm bodies for the front. The Totenkopf originally were the true believers; the only ones almost as fanatical were the Einsatzgruppen.
As the war drew to its end, they began rotating Waffen-SS who could no longer fight, into the camp guards along with the Auxiliary SS right at the end. So it was pretty much an assumption that ALL of the SS knew of the camps, and not just the Totenkopf.
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