The SS

[Kieran]

Cheers FM.

[GoneToTheCanner]

Hi GH
My point about restoring old vehicles, guns and uniforms is a benign one. I'm all for saving old stuff that would otherwise be lost but not to the extent of glorifying mass murderers. I'm sure the fellas in Bovington that restored an old Tiger tank to running order do not see themselves as glorifying Nazism ,rather restoring a tank to the status of being unique among other tanks.
regards
GttC

[Groundhog]

Hi GH
My point about restoring old vehicles, guns and uniforms is a benign one. I'm all for saving old stuff that would otherwise be lost but not to the extent of glorifying mass murderers. I'm sure the fellas in Bovington that restored an old Tiger tank to running order do not see themselves as glorifying Nazism ,rather restoring a tank to the status of being unique among other tanks.
regards
GttC

I've no real problem with preserving these things either. I was just referring to the unfortunately now deleted SS Re-enactment thread where there were considerable objections to the practice.

[jack]

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Dear waffenhistory who mention reenacting ?? you did !! from what i can see your post seems to be a little inaccurate, from what i have read so far, a fair debate is on , its not one sided from what i can see, this is a good forum please dont knock it , if you dont like this forum dont log on , good debate guys some very interesting points have been made

[combatlogo]

For anyone who wants to read an account of an SS trooper's war, I'd recommend "Black Edelweiss" - idealist youth joins the SS (Nord Division IIRC), fights in N. Russia then has to come to terms with the horrific crimes of the regime and the branding of all the SS as a criminal organisation - very good indeed.

[Joshua]

Dear waffenhistory who mention reenacting ?? you did !! from what i can see your post seems to be a little inaccurate, from what i have read so far, a fair debate is on , its not one sided from what i can see, this is a good forum please dont knock it , if you dont like this forum dont log on , good debate guys some very interesting points have been made

In fairness to waffenhistory, he is referring to another thread which was pulled due to the way it was let run "wild" , resulting in many objections from members of IMO.

The thread was deemed unsalvageable and hence this new thread.
A fresh start.....for everyone.

[jack]

In fairness to waffenhistory, he is referring to another thread which was pulled due to the way it was let run "wild" , resulting in many objections from members of IMO.

The thread was deemed unsalvageable and hence this new thread.
A fresh start.....for everyone.

my apologies thank you for clearing that up

[Bosco]

Never more then 2 platoons from what i heard. Anyone know what happened to any of them after the war?

Remember reading that the head NCO an RSM or similar was actualy in contact with Brit Mil Intel. Also one of the members won the German All Army Boxing title.

[farlee]

Interesting thread, personally I've always seperated the actions of the Waffen SS from the actions of the other two branches. Yes the Waffen SS committed atrocities but no where near to the extent of the Allgemeine SS or the Totenkopfverbände which were the concentration camp guards. They were front line troops, mostly volunteers and by wars end were made up of more than 50% non Germans. After the war some of the French SS men joined the French Foreign legion and went on to fight in Indochina. A very good book if you can get a copy is 'Ashes of Honour' by Christian De La Maziere who was a french volunteer in the Waffen SS.


Just found this interesting link,
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Dachau...ersKilled.html

[hedgehog]

Yes the Waffen SS committed atrocities but no where near to the extent of the Allgemeine SS or the Totenkopfverbände which were the concentration camp guards.

so how many atroticies are ok- 1 - 10-100 etc

good link- email lthe web master and ask his views

and my jaysus do you get both barrells from him