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To: Cronos

correct you are...

these “later” legions were raised expressly for the reason of bolstering the manpower ranks of depleted SS panzer and grenadier divisions, due to battle attrition, mostly during Barbarossa

there were similar efforts in most, if not all, of the countries that were subjugated and occupied by the nazis, including flemish, french, danish, dutch, et al.

think Leon Degrelle...

( I suspect you know all of this already... :) )


13 posted on 03/16/2018 5:52:55 AM PDT by QualityMan (The Adults are back in town)
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To: QualityMan
Leon Degrelle volunteered.

There are circumstances - if someone was forced into the SS (like some German boys in 1945) and didn't commit atrocities, then they should be forgiven.

There are circumstances - the highest volunteer rate of a group of people to join up with the SS were the SudentenlandGermans -- and then you need to read how the local germans were treated by Czechs in the years 1919-1938. And then you need to read about Czech history and their struggles against germanization. Very few things are simple black and white - and one of those black-white things is "anyone who kills an innocent of their free will, not matter what the reason, what background, whatever; that person has grieviously sinned"

There are people who managed to be righteous even under the most trying of circumstances -- Karl Plagge

26 posted on 03/16/2018 6:25:09 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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