Originally posted by Reschke
Do you have proof? If not then why paint with such a broad brush? Sure many citizens and military personnel for Germany during WW2 were members of the Nazi party. Also many others were members simply to stay "out of sight, out of mind". Remember this; those men were fighting for their country for the exact same reason that US, British, etc... fought for their own country...
Yer kidding right Reschke? Joachim Peiper was Commander of the 1st Liebstandarte Regiment. That'd be the 1st SS, Adolf Hitler, Hitler's Bodyguard etc etc.
Yep, he was just some ordinary Joe, fighting for his country, who swore no blood oath to Hitler etc etc. Just an out of sight, out of mind kinda guy old Joachim Peiper. That old Final Solution stuff was just a guy fighting for his country. Yep they tripped and fell into Poland, Czecheslovakia, Belgium, Holland, France, Russia etc etc etc. They needed more room for golf courses.
GAWD the apologists for these guys are everywhere.
Do a little reading up on this will ya? It's fascinating stuff. All kinds of books on the SS out there. They were a bit different then the Wehrmacht for example. Had a different approach to things and a different loyalty.
Quoting from "Soldiers of Destruction" by Charles Sydnor.
"SS soldiers attended several lectures weekly and were told repeatedly that the goal of their training was to shape them into political soldiers of the fuhrer
Political training was divided into three broad areas. The first dealt with the history of the Nazi Party, and included an examination of the party program. The second involved the history and racial beliefs of the SS. The third and most important part required a careful analysis of the enemies of National Socialism. In order of importance these were: 1-Jews, 2-Fremasonry, 3-Bolshevism and 4-The churches."
And in case you are going to tell me that is just the author's opinion, he is taking the information from SS circular orders from March of 1937.
I'll tell ya what. e-mail me at
dlj447@frontiernet.net and if you want I'll loan you my copy of the Division history of the 2nd SS that I have. It's a fascinating look into the minds of those guys. I've got some 1st SS stuff too. I went through my phase of trying to understand how those guys came about a long time ago.
Dan/Slack