Originally posted by Jaxxon
Paperwork filed by the Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Henss joined the Hitler Youth organization in Germany in 1934 as a 12 or 13-year-old boy and joined the Nazi Party in September 1940.
In early 1941, Henss volunteered to serve in the Waffen SS and became an SS dog handler in 1942 after serving in the elite Waffen SS combat unit “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.”
Investigators also said that Henss taught other concentration camp guards at Dachau and Buchwenwald how to use attack dogs to guard prisoners and prevent their escape.
I don't know, sounds like a willing participant to me.
Sorry, but Germany at that time was caught up in much like America is caught up today. He was a soldier that followed his orders and did his duty.
Because Germany lost, everything they did during the war was judged upon mainly because of the atrocities of the concentration camps. So being a SS officer in world war two was likely sought after just like a US soldier would want to become a Special Services soldier.
Being in the SS meant being the best of the best in their military. Hitler was a mad man and Germany followed him for what ever reason. I think it's pretty safe to say that in mass amounts, people are very easily led down that kind of path as long as it seems logical at the time.
Look how easily the US was led into war in Iraq because of the attacks on 9/11 which had nothing to do with Iraq. Still to this day I can not understand how people could support a war with a country that had nothing to do with it. Yet on this very board we have die hard supporters for the Iraq war that support it because they think it's part of the war on terrorism.
So now look back at Hitler and see how he used Jews as an example as for everything that was wrong with Germany and the world. Just like we have American citizens whom don't give a **** about the general population in Iraq or the harm that has come to them under our war. In Germany they had the same attitude toward the Jews.
This might piss people off but I don't care, because if you look close enough there are parallels to Nazi Germany and what goes on today in our supposed war on terror.
Sure we aren't setting up concentration camps and exterminating Muslims, but the general population in this country was mislead down the wrong path just the same as the Germans were in ww2. Luckily most of America has woken up and can see what is wrong in Iraq and why it was a wrong decision to go to war there. Sad to say it was a little late for the average Iraqi citizen.
Remember it's always the winners that write history. I say as long as the guy wasn't a high ranking officer then he was just doing his job, just like any other soldier would do. He just happened to be on the losing side the side which is judged.
