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  • best soldiers ever

  • @alexcharnock1987 He fuck you there all Nazi Butt Fucking Faggots!

  • 88

  • Is this where they were running away from the Canadians..?

    If France had the least clue how to use their superior tanks at the start of the war, the whole thing would have been different...

    Yes, French tanks in 1939 were better... look it up....

  • You knew that 1.7 million German prisoners died for hunger or diseases in the concentration camps of the western allies? There were left they, without refuge or food and they was prohibited to construct some type of refuge, for months they drunk the water of rain to survive. Some of them had even that to eat his depositions because of the hunger. This was arranged by the president Roosevelt. Harry Truman would put end to "the german final solution", because he considered that this was barbarous.

  • @liquidchile You know that the GERMAN forces in France called the HitlerJugend the murder division,For their executing POWs? Guess not. You only know a twisted one-sided view. That's from being from Chile.

  • @liquidchile lolooloollll you fucking halfwit ' surely you can come up with better lie's than that ROFL ....

  • There is NOTHING good to say about the nazis or the ss.

    nazis = subhuman vermin scum.

    ss = subhuman vermin scum.

    You may have been a "non-nazi" and "had" to fight for the nazis but it doesn't mean that the rest of us have to look at you and see that YOU "did nothing bad/wrong".

  • @lukebccb

    This it is the history that they teach you in your "democratic" dictatorship (a two–party democracy the same is a joke, that parties are practically the same) and that your country tries to spread across his movies.

    This is the history that teach you in your "democratic" dictatorship (a two–party democracy... that is a joke, democrats and republicans in USA are practically the same) and that your country tries to show in his movies.

  • Nazi-Film. Geht nach Auschwitz und schaut euch die Verbrechen der Deutschen an.

    

  • The Americans: most powerful economy and military in the world, their country wasn't ravaged by war, and they rescued the situation in Europe on both fronts. American supplies played a massive part in slowing down and defeating the Germans on the Eastern front, the Invasion of Normandy and clearing North Africa of the Nazis. So they hardly suck do they.

  • @luisgarcia7 I am british and i agree with you the british empire declared war on germany thinking there were ready and they would win because they didnt think germany had the powers they had! But in fact the british and french allied forces were far from ready they were 10 decades behind they wernt prepared for modern warfare and got humiliated british empire need supplies of USA we were cut off fighting on all front around the world without america supplies we would be starved to death LOST

  • So in the end ... Go educate yourself nigger licker.

  • OH and by the way....those are Runstedts own figures...not the sucky Americans that kicked his ass.

  • Americans sucked? Then the SS/Wehrmacht sucked even more ....LOL....452,000 were casualties D-Day + 32.

  • @actonbath Oh really? Can you profide any sources? Well can you dumbass? No? I thought so. Faggot Americans got their asses kicked in Vietnam and they are getting fucked by a bunch of cave monkeys in Afganistan. red neck big mouth tough guy wannebe white trash dumbass cowards = typical american soldier. lol

  • @LootsEr Typical South African fool.

  • @jrwel14 And, look at all the genocide going on if Africa. LootsEr has nothing to be proud of.

  • This unit of 20,000 troops was reduced to 16 soldiers and 3 tanks in less than 12 days of combat....they sucked.

  • @actonbath Dumbass. I guess you suck at history. Go educate yourself retard. The americans sucked big time.

  • @LootsEr Good luck finding the stats for your assumption. The German High Command statistics for the 12th SS is written in their own German.

    So suck that and have fun sucking nigger cocks in SA.

  • So as if world war one killing innocent brainwashed children at 16 years old wasn't enouhg, it happened again 30 years later, sheer stupidity. I take my hat off to the bravery, but brainwashed bravery, that could have been better served elsewhere without the grief to the families at the very least. If anone thinkls this is glorious, you are fucking Chimpanzee seriously without zero evolution.

  • Die haben den amis eins auf maul gehauen.

  • So, this is the Division that GERMAN forces in France called,"The Murder Division!"

  • 09.05.1945

  • these arent 12 ss troops, their helmets indicate that they are regular wehrmacht

  • nwo2k WTF Bitch You Are American FUCK YOU

  • Because of the missed drop zones of the Airborne troops behind enemy lines. Scattered all over and would have been too easy to shell them with friendly fire.

  • why is it that the battle ships couldnt take out the pill boxes before beach invasion?

  • Excuse me senior skinhead, which way to Arizona?

  • Yes the white race lost its chance with Hitler, flawed as his plan was. We are coming upon another chance we should grasp and use to full potential. The collapse of all the liberal and zionist jew run goverments around the world. We don't have many chances left and that is why the white race from America to Europe and Russia must unite to drive the non white savages back ut of our homelands. I know the Europeans are having their problems and even the Russians are as well.

  • el mundo entero casi no pudo ganar a alemania...viva alemania,tiene los mejores soldatos

  • Yes the 12th SS is still here. Maybe you didn't understand that, and yes we are building a full scale Tiger 1. Started assembly last April 2009. Turret almost done. We are a reenactment division.

  • 12th SS is still here and well. We are building a Tiger 1.

  • hahhaha what???

  • @ghostmaker105 Get a life!

  • HEIL DER WEHRMACHT UND WAFFEN SS

    88 from austria

  • Hitler was the only gentile of the last 3000 years who had the mental abilities needed to pose an actual threat to worldwide jewish supremacy. And whenever the jews have spawned a genius he gets assigned to talmudic rabbinical indoctrination. The purpose of the rabbis is to plan out jewish maneuverations several generations in advance which is the big secret behind jewish supremacy. Rabbis are the legion of evil geniuses to whom jewish supremacism is entrusted. Adolf Hitler was just one man.

  • @TurdTemple go smoke more penis assfag.

  • @LottoWinner999 . trouble was, the allies were too scarred to get close enough. LOL ;^]

  • wie stolz ich bin deutsch zu sein die krone der schöpfung ...heil

  • Tapfere Deutsche!

    Von einem Österreicher verarscht und gestorben!!!!

  • tapfer germans have aufrecht gekämpft bis to the bitter end! your opfergang for our holy europe will never be vergessen!

  • Heil to the brave german troops!

    You fought for a thing we never will have!

  • @nwo2k penis assfag. go fuck yourself

  • @nwo2k cowardly nazi child murderers, surrendered in droves and then complained that people weren't being nice to them

  • @nwo2k what don't you have :S ??

  • @nwo2k Yeah, enslavement, tyranny and racism ...

  • @nwo2k Gee look at all the German Nazi Faggots!

  • Ruhm und Ehre diesen Soldaten !

  • den schon nit mehr so wirklich die ham krasse sachen gemacht

  • hast beispiele ?

  • @Warforce1488 Ruhm und Ehre? Was war ehrenvoll und ruhmreich unschuldige Kinder, Frauen und Männer abzuknallen? Was war ruhmreich am Genozid? was war ehrenvoll am Abschlachten anderer Völker????????????????????????­??????????????

  • @qooe1

    du bist erfolgreich entnazifiziert und manipuliert... gratulation!

  • Fuck American and their politics.40 years ago they murdere lots of niggers and now they have nigger for pressident.I mean wtf!!!?I wish they going to kill that nigga cuz they fail and killing JFK.Death to Obama the dumb nigga from ghetto.Fuck you all americans.Vozdra!from russia with hates!

  • Dear Sir,

    You are clearly quite clueless, ignorant, immature, & illiterate. Kindly get some semblance of a clue, plus serious remedial English, before attempting to enlighten us again...

  • @PajaPatakBrakeTheLaw Fuck you russian commie faggot!

  • FUCK RUSSIANS!!! bitch!!

  • they started recruiting foreigners towards the end cos they was desperate

  • Then why the recruitement in 40 41 and 42? If milions of men wanted to figth against the soviet opressor in East why should the germans refuse them?

  • Was wißt ihr Klugscheißer, Katzengreise und wie ihr euch sonst noch nennt, über diese Zeit. Wer sich weigerte seine Pflicht zu erfüllen, wurde an die Wand gestellt, (war nicht so wie heutzutage, wo jeder Hosenscheißer seinen Wehrdienst verweigern kann, weil er sich einpinkelt wenn ein Gewehr knallt). Vor der 12.Pz Division sollte jeder der einen Funken deutscher Ehre im Leib hat, seinen Hut ziehen. Ich weiß, wovon ich spreche.

  • but there were a lot of foreigns in the SS even ukrainian

  • ukrainian, belgium, croates, french, dutch, muslims ... etc

  • 57% of Waffen SS was foreign

  • this is actually bullcrap . I cant imagine that in Leibstandarte, Totenkopf is even one foreigner!

    to be honest.... they were good soldats... but all the concept was pretty inhuman! Fuck SS

  • Then searh and read about it because you clearly lack the info Das Reich Wiking were know divisions were foreigns were present especealy Wiking the all concept was of great soldiers modern knigths I dont see nothing wrong with it

  • You dont see nothing wrong on killing innocent people and taking pictures in front of their dead bodies?

  • No. I see that has wrong but you seam to confuse Waffen SS Divsions that function as military units in the front and concentration camps personal.

  • Man, I just know that for example soldiers from SS Totenkopf were recruited from former guardsmans of concentration camps.

  • Intialy but what 80% of them got killed by 41-42 in Eastern Front by middle and end of war was made mainly of volunters from SS military schools also even intialy some SS VT and Danzig SS were transfered to Totenkopf but anyway I didnt say they were brutal

  • SS Number 3 was made up of former concentration camp guards. It was never chosen to spearhead a major offensive and was one of the least distinguishedof the SS units.

  • Wrong. Was chose various times to be spearhead of offensive their nickname was "Hitlers Fireman" since everytime red army penetred the german defense line they were send to into battle and stop the offensive.

    Several men had Knigths Cross and this division is know for heroes in Eastern Front

    Was one of elite "germanic" divisions of SS

  • Actually, you are refering to SS division number12. I was referring to SS number 3.

  • checked, and polizei was SS number 4, not number 3. SS 3,Totenkopf was recruited from concentration camp guards, whereas polizei was recruited from (duh) police, and was a second class unit.

  • For second class unit had 25 Knigth Cross with Leafs medals

  • No I am not I am refearing to SS 3 Totenkopf division

  • blut  fur unser reich

  • Hab erst ne Buch über diese Jungs gelesen,

    das waren verdammt zähe Burschen, die haben fast ohne schweres Gerät eine Feindliche Übermacht von 10zu1 wochenlang standgehalten! Einfach unvorstellbar.

  • Die NAZI SCHEISSE ist da wo sie hingehört - auf der Müllkippe der Geschichte.....

  • Das ändert nix an der Tatsache das ihre heutigen Fans der Abschaum der Gesellschaft sind und sie den Krieg den sie so unbegingt wollten verloren haben :-)

  • schweingesichter

  • Dir ist schon klar, dass das die Waffen SS da oben im Video ist? ;)

  • well that was quick

  • Atrocities happen in every war on all sides, it is not only common to the ss.There were countless atrocities committed by both sides....alot of witch we will never know....this is a fact of war

  • jews are german? wtf does that mean. the majority of the jews today are khazarian slavs that emigrated to germany due to its prosperity in central europe which they could leech off, adopted germanic names to blend in, many of which are specific for jews (like goldberg).....until hitler kicked them out. now they roam the world causing havoc.

  • Catarkiller, They were murders and massacared quite e few Canadian POWs, so the Canadians did the same to them. They did not do too well in their first fight with the Commonwealth forces shortly after D-Day. They were lacking in training but not spirit. They were not the most elite in the Wehrmacht. Grossdeutschland units, Panzer Lehr, and other Heer and Waffen SS units were better, but the 12SS learned fast as a matter of their own survival.

  • British vets said they did their job really good.

  • Is it me or are all the shooting sounds from command and conquer?

  • i hate people who say that these guys are all murders ... they were only the elite of germany

    may they rest in peace

  • Hail these guys!!!!

  • Hitler brought death and destruction to all those young germans. May he burn in hell

  • 22,000 videos watched in 1.7 years. Pretty Pretty gay

    Who you work for ADL AIPAC or Tel Aviv sweat shop

  • Toughest and hardest soldiers in centuries, enjoy the view.

  • Hmm, quite a debate going on here it seems so i wont get involved (even though im tempted to)

    some good footage here, a little footprint in history which without the wonders of modern technology might have been forgotten forever

  • FagstoneFannieOakley: You get beaten off other pages and u show up here,hate is a full time job to you Arizona Zion. Still see you have homosexual urges in you posts, Enjoy the videos untermensch. PROST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • when you say "you fucking krauts" are you meaning me specifically, or just germans in general (if you mean it to me, i dont understand why as i am british)

  • lol at how every1 has to preach their history knowledge on here

  • well during the battle of the bulge, most the the tiger 1 and tiger 2s that were lost in the ardennes were lost to either running out of fuel and surrendering or suffering mechanical faults and surrendering (hideously overmachined things those tigers were)

  • The Berlin airlift was not an act of friendship by america to germany, but an un-hostile back at the soviet union for blockading germany in the first place.

    this situation was more than normal during the cold war 'era'. ?The soviet union showing their strength by blockading West Berlin and America had to 'retaliate' so not to lose face and seem to be backing down from soviet confrontation.

  • Actually, Lotto Winner has a point. The Krauts played war for keeps. If the Allies played war by Kraut rules, then once the Krauts were soundly whipped (about as definitively crushed as anyone ever got in war), the Allies could have chosen to wipe Germany clean for all time. That they chose otherwise is a testiment to American humanity and civilization. Thanks to the Cold War, the vanquished Germans evaded the righteous wrath that might have followed their conquest.

  • Lottowinner 999 is one of the anti white haters from Arizona who just goes from German page to page with stupid lies and BS. Has many names...TombstoneAnnieOakley,P­utYourSpamHere for example, low life that thinks he is a true American, in fact his kind helped to wipe them out...the native indian, fuckin dreaded hipocrit. PROST!!!!

  • you know what I hate rednecks. Your countries a joke. You only gain your independence because you fought a enemy 5000 km away. Oh sorry Americans don't know what a kilometer is. Ruffly 2500 miles. If it were up to me. Brittan would still be the biggest and most powerful country. And though I don't agree with all of Hitlers views he did have a respect for the British. No one likes America.!!!!!!!!!!! Germany and Brittan are all supreme and I hope the chinesse or Russian invade some time soon.

  • @LottoWinner just stfu dumbhead

    @juppbach

    your right, thats the truth

  • @LottoWinner999

    the americans was no enemys for us.

    all westallies together hast just fight vs. 28% of the german forces.

    we had better soldiers as america, we had better technology as america and we had better tactics as america.

    Germany has fight vs. 53 countries in

    WW2. not just vs. america.

    the strongest enemy for us was russia.

    they fight vs. 72% of our forces.

  • @TheKraut88 Und darum hat Nazi-Deutschland den Krieg verloren. Du bist ein Neonazi-Dummschwätzer, der noch gar nichts begriffen hat. Geh mal in die Sonderschule, dann kannst du vielleicht mitreden... Nur tote Nazis sind gute Nazis.

  • @TheKraut88 Und darum hat Nazi-Deutschland den Krieg verloren. Du bist ein Neonazi-Dummschwätzer, der noch gar nichts begriffen hat. Geh mal in die Sonderschule, dann kannst du vielleicht mitreden... Nur tote Nazis sind gute Nazis. Vielleicht hast du auch schon mal was von Stalingrad und der Befreiung Berlins gehört...

  • You only fight against HITLERJUGEND YOU KNOW?THESE ARE FUCKIN CHILDS 13-17 years old damnit and they beat up and owned your ass very well for that fact you Stupid americans

  • Sirious...LottoWinner... The Americans never Realy Faced the German war machine... You only entered the war because russia defeat us maybe 90% and you wanna get a piece of the Cake . You are an Old Dickhead go and wank your died daddy´s penis you bastard!

  • haha u talk so much shit dude..deine muter stinkt... "We Americans fight in two Wars" WOOOOW we had War against the World and we lost like Napoleon and other trash.. u think we are soo unhuman cuz we killed so many jews?! U FUCKERS THROWS ATOMBOMBS ON JAPAN, u think America got so much moral and honor?! U STOLD THE FUCKING CONTINENT FROM ENGLAND Cock sucker deine Mutter schwitzt beim kacken und fliegt extra in die EU um beim Kik einzukaufen

  • Wow, that comment was very informed and historically relevant. You must be a professor of history at Harvard or Oxford. Can I buy your book and have it signed!

  • And there was me thinking that in reality Germany threw down some serious ownage.

    And thats why today USA soldiers are in germany ready to die like slaves if germany is ever attacked.

    But there you go.

  • Can i please have this footage for a school project?

  • dam well trained men

  • Ganz genau auf den Punkt getroffen!

  • woho, es gibt sie noch, die hellen wachsamen Köpfe!

    es ist zu tiefst traurig wie dumm einfach manche menschen sind! irgendwann fällt der vorhang runter und die wahrheit steht nackt vor uns. auf diesen tag freue ich mich, denn dann lache ich diese verdammten medien-weichgewaschenen trottel aus!

  • was redest du den fürn müll?!! es ging in diesem krieg doch gar nich um scheiss finanzsystem...

    Scheiss Nazi und was den für fremde besatzer

    und ausserdem schütz die globalisierung das noch ein scheiss trottel ein Krieg anfangen kann da das komplexe wirtschaftsystem das gebaut wurde einem kriegerischen Land den Hahn abdrehen kann... erzähl hier kein Bullshit alter geh ma deinen sonderschulabschluss nachholen

  • Der einzige der hier Müll redet, bist Du. Ein Opfer der Medienpropaganda, wie so viele. Hoffentlich wachen noch mehr Leute endlich aus dem tiefen Winterschlaf. Allerdings gehört eher Intelligenz dazu, dieses Ausbeutersystem einer kleinen plutokratischen Clique zu durchschauen.

  • As for WW1, let's put things straight: It was not the Versailler Vertrag which was unfair. It was the French victory at the battle of the Marne in 1914. Germania was earmarked by Gott (Wotan?) to rule Europe, and the Allies had simply no right to get on her way. They had to be punished, which happened in 1940. Then things went out of control, but of course it was not Gemany's responsibility

    Anyway, thanks for the two Mauser and the Stahlhelm I still have in my attic.

  • Liebe Dame Yes, in a way Napoleon was insane ganz verrückt. The main problem, afterwards, was that German leaders spent 130 years trying to imitate him which led them also into the Russian heartland.

  • Es waren die besten Soldaten der Welt. Hart geschliffene Elitesoldaten ...tapfer, mutig und stolz !

  • The description of Generalmajor Walter Bruns, on witnessing the murder of 10,000 Jewish women and children in the village of Skirotawa, Latvia:

    "Above there were six men with tommy-guns who gave them the coup de grâce. When I arrived those pits were so full that the living had to lie down on top of the dead; then they were shot and, in order to save room, they had to lie down neatly in layers...They were all women and small two year-old children."

  • Testimony of SS-Obersturmfuhrer August Hafner:

    "...Then Blobel ordered me to have the children executed...The Wehrmacht had already dug a grave. ..The children were taken down from the tractor. They were lined up along the top of the grave and shot so that they fell into it....The wailing was indescribable...I particularly remember a small fair-haired girl who took me by the hand. She too was shot later....Many children were hit four or five times before they died."

  • You act like we don't know that millions of Jews were killed. We fucking know. Your not the only millions of murdered. Always playing victim, the Jew. Ever heard of the Late Victorian Holocaust? Your comments prove a "jew" stereotype: Always bitching!

  • Moshe: Forget to tell how they were beaten to give confessions at point of gun,give the land back to the Palestinian if you are looking for justice,fuckin Zion hipocrit.

  • Scharfschutzen:

    You get no points for being stupid. Much of my evidence comes from testimonies of German death camp guards in West German courts in the 60's, where no Soviet or Allied governments had any influence on the proceedings. We also have the documents and pronouncements of Himmler, Goebbels, and many other nazi dreck leaders. Incidentally, moron, Israel is only 9 miles across at its center. Not much land to "give back."

  • Since we a re on the subject of STUPID i guess your documentation failed to say that these"guards" were not combat Waffen SS soldiers but in fact men incorporated into them and wore the uniforms because Himmler controlled such. you make no sense as typical Jew statements show. What is your point with the 12th SS??? It took many countries to overwhelm Germany who was much much smaller than their adversaries. Much testimony came from beatings and threat of death. You are dismissed dumkopf,racist.

  • Very true.

  • When you see a soldier smile, such as in this film, it is never of joy for going into combat, nor is it for defeating the enemy or successfully holding ground. No, it is because the soldier is happy to still be alive. Because in a few hours, he may not. Keep that in mind when watching WW2 films such as this one.

  • all heroes!

  • Das waren die besten Soldaten der Welt!

  • "Das waren die besten Soldaten der Welt!"

    Das ist eine Sage für Kinder. Again, he SS legend for the naive. Many regular Wehrmacht divisions were just as brave and efficient as the SS. We have examples of SS units which gave up ground or surrendered. What made the SS' reputation was their political fanaticism and ruthless cruelty to civilian population: Not exactly the definition of military courage.

  • Actually while there is some truth to your statement, it is not correct. The SS were widely recognized by their opponents as skilled and courageous in combat. They fought sometimes with complete disregard to their own casualties. The 12th SS certainly did so in the actions against the British in Normandie.

    My comments are not political in any way, some idiots fail to realize that. Just making that clear.

  • We can agree on that. Of course the SS were elite soldiers, none denies that. That's the tragedy with mad dictators: They select the best young people, just to feed them with mad beliefs and send them into hell.

  • Well yes of course and it's still true today. It requires no mad dictotor to feed the young with mad beliefs and send them to hell. Look at the suicide statistics of US vets of age 30 years or younger.

    It's easy to send a soldier to hell, more difficult to save him from it.

  • Right. I've talked with some US veterans (from Viet-Nam). To try to explain the high rate of suicide or psycho-problems among them, just a hypothesis: Military life is very much the contrary of the modern American way of life (top values: Being a consumer, having fun, taking it easy). Becoming a soldier is much more a shock to them than it was to young men 100 years ago, who had been used to hard life, effort and "parents who say no" since their childhood.

  • It sure can be tough to get used to a military way of life but it is 100 times more difficult to go back to civilian life. Some simply never can. Once you have experienced the battlefield you will carry it with you every day for the rest of your life. It just does not go away, it will change you forever and more often than not it is a change that takes away more of you than what it gives you. No matter how decorated a soldier you are, you never look upon yourself as a hero.

  • What do you tell there? You are French and want to know German history? Where from then?? A SS soldier has never given up itself and the native country. To the civil population they were not cruel, because this was strictly punished and was dismissed from the army and this was for a SS soldier a degradation .

  • killed civilian were fig partisans ...they hidden behind children...lol Smart arse.

    Enquire first properly before you here your idiotic "schoolhistory" tells.

  • Eyewitness Testimony of Wehrmacht Lieutenant Erwin Bingel on the September 1941 mass grave execution of the Jews of Uman:

    "Nor were mothers spared the terrible sight of their children being gripped by their little legs, and put to death...one could not help thinking of wives and children back home who believed they had good reason to be proud of their husbands and fathers, who, they thought, were fighting heroically in the ranks of the German army on behalf of the Fatherland...

  • Photos of naked women and children from the Mizocz ghetto being herded into a mass grave. (Google Einsatzgruppen Gallery)

  • Do you believe, actually, the Germans only Jews have killed? Stalin was the first one of the millions people in a concentration camp killed.

    When the Germans marched in in Poland, the Polish inhabitants have killed her Jews without a German wanted. Learns first the backgrounds, because there are common graves from buried German also enough!

  • Himmler speech at Posen, October 6, 1943:

    "We came to the question: what to do with the women and children? I decided to find a clear solution here as well. I did not consider myself justified to exterminate the men - that is, to kill them or have them killed - and allow the avengers of our sons and grandsons in the form of their children to grow up. The difficult decision had to be taken to make this people disappear from the earth. "

  • Himmler speech before generals of the Wehrmacht in Sonthofen, May 5, 1944:

    If you say: 'we can understand as far as the men are concerned but not about the children`, then I must remind you of what I saidIn my view, we as Germans, however deeply we may feel in our hearts, are not entitled to allow a generation of avengers filled with hatred to grow up with whom our children and grandchildren will have to deal because we, too weak and cowardly, left it to them.

  • The testimony of SS officer Ernst Gobel, in charge of a group of mass executions on the Eastern Front:

    "The victims were shot by the firing-squad with carbines, mostly with shots in the back of the head. . . . Meanwhile [a] Rottenführer . . . shot the [small] children with a pistol. . . . He got hold of the children by the hair, lifted them up from the ground, shot them through the back of their heads and threw them into the grave."

  • Mein Lieber, ein Franzose kann ganz natürlich Deutsche Geschichte (oder Spanische, oder Chinesische Geschichte); und das selbe stimmt für einen Deutscher.

    Thanks God, History is much more than naive national history.

    Your comment is merely theoretical, not tied with reality. Many SS ended up POWs (=KG) in the hands of French, British or Russian soldiers.

    You speak like the Muslims who claim that "Since the Koran preaches peace, taleban terrorists don't exist".

  • Nein ...nicht Lieber sondern Liebe, ich bin nämlich weiblich ;-)

    Btw. think over first your own History! Napoleon was insane ;-) und der Versailler Vertrag war eine Frechheit.

  • "Ahuge number of Nazis were granted pardons, amnesties, and early releases due to a Cold War policy"

    Yes, and this was also true on the other side of the Iron Curtain: The Soviets "amnestied" and employed thousands of ex-nazis, either in their military-industrial complex or in their secret policy and espionage agencies.

    Even before the liberation of France, some Gestapo leaders had received guarantees from Allied secret services that they would be safe, in exchange of their changing sides.

  • 卐!!!

  • MG-42 fuck yeah

  • NOT AN MG 42... its an MG 34

  • Himmler speech at Posen, October 6, 1943:

    "We came to the question: what to with the women and children? I decided to find a clear solution here as well. I did not consider myself justified to exterminate the men - that is, to kill them or have them killed - and allow the avengers of our sons and grandsons in the form of their children to grow up. The difficult decision had to be taken to make this people disappear from the earth. "

  • Himmler speech before generals of the Wehrmacht in Sonthofen, May 5, 1944:

    If you say: 'we can understand as far as the men are concerned but not about the children`, then I must remind you of what I saidIn my view, we as Germans, however deeply we may feel in our hearts, are not entitled to allow a generation of avengers filled with hatred to grow up with whom our children and grandchildren will have to deal because we, too weak and cowardly, left it to them.

  • Moshe: We get the point. . .the Nazis were scum. I do not, however, think it is fair to lay all of the crimes of the Nazi state at the feet of the Hitler Youth, deluded and duped from the time they were very young.

    With all of the horrific crimes of the Nazi state, it is still fair to say that the 12th SS Hitler Youth were brave and fine soldiers, as were their opponents. It has also never been proven that they committed more atrocities than their Canadian or British counterparts.

  • hum-hum There was still a big difference: the SS, how brave soldiers as the were indeed, were EDUCATED to commit atrocities trained ideologically, not only to kill civilians and prisoners, but to lose all judeo-christian values and human respect. That's why, for example, after their 1st encounters with SS in Britanny, the French SAS troops decided they would no longer make SS prisoners.

  • Be that as it may, the 12th SS was never accused of any atrocities against civilians in Normandy that I know of. They were accused of killing approximately 50 prisoners of war ( Canadians ).

    It is well known that Canadian, British, and American troops also on occasion shot German prisoners of war.

    My point was not aimed at the SS in general, only this one unit.

  • I just checked on Wiki "which is not always "the Bible", but seems seriously documented in this case): "The acknowledged war crimes of the division happened in Normandy where over 100 Canadian soldiers were executed by their captors in the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend."

    It also killed 86 civilians aged 15- 85 ans and unrelated to the Resistance, in reprisals for a train derailment on 2nd April 1944 near Lille.

  • I have never seen anything about the civilians killed. Could you please cite a source for your information?

  • Yes. I found it on wiki/Massacre_d%27Ascq (in French). Wikipedia is always questionable, but it gives references, including Cl. Moisel, "Frankreich und die deutschen Kriegsverbrecher: Politik und Praxis der Strafverfolgung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg". Göttingen: Wallstein, 2004.

    This massacre stirred much fuss: The bishop of Lille and even Vichy notabilities protested, a huge crowd attended the funerals of the 86 victims. On the German side, the Feldgendarmerie tried to stop the SS.

  • Thanks for this information. My French isn't good, but from what I read of the article my conclusion was that the train that was sabotaged contained elements of the 12th SS, but I read nothing to indicate the 12th was involved in the reprisal. I would think if they were, it would have been recalled in the war crimes attributed to the unit after the war.

  • The local Resistance had blown up the railway and stopped a train transporting 400 men and 60 armoured cars of the 12th SS. it was this unit which devastated the nearby village and shot 86 hostages. Weeks later, the 12th SS suffered heavy casualties in Normandy. The survivors were judged in 1949 for this war crime.

  • OK. . .thanks.

  • I found some more information about the trial after the war. I have never understood why so many men found guilty of war crimes received such light punishments: i.e. Walter Hauck, who ordered the executions, stood trial in a French military court, was sentenced to death, but the sentence later commuted and Hauck released in 1957.

    You would think the French of all people would have wanted the death sentence carried out, or at least life long incarceration.

  • You are right. I don't know why men like Hauck were not sentenced to death, and were even released after 10 years. Even the French policy of reconciliation with Germany cannot explain indulgence for an ex-SS. I know only that, generally, sentences were radical in 1944-1946, then became more and more lenient. I knew a former French SS (a rare case !) who had fought in Russia. As he got caught only in 1946, he was sentenced to forced labor, not shot.

  • In the 1950's, a huge number of Nazis were granted pardons, amnesties, and early releases due to a Cold War policy to de-emphasize the criminal backgrounds of thousands of nazis. The new enemy was the Soviet Union, and the West was eager to employ the German population in its efforts to stand against communism.

  • new enemy the soviet union???..was always the enemy.

    Hitler wanted UK and usa to join against the sovietsbut they just wanted to destroy germany due to was becoming the best country in the world in all sesnses.

    So one time they beat germany they started what they should have started before and save millons and millons lives.

    SS heroes!

  • "Only" forced labor? Let me tell you that in Russia, this is in many cases the same as a bullet through your brain. Actually, most would prefer the bullet, it's less painful. My grandfather did ONE year in a gulag camp between summer 1940 and the german invasion. During that time out of 8000 deported estonian university students some 2500 perished in the camps.