Gary Hurst wrote:
the waffen ss are just plain military,
In the end, you were right, but in the beginning, a little closer to what I was
thinking.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/waffenss.html
The Waffen-SS ("Armed Protective Squadron") was the combat arm of the
Schutzstaffel. Commanded by Heinrich Himmler who was ranked Reichsführer-SS
(National Leader of the SS), the Waffen-SS saw action throughout the Second
World War.
After humble beginnings as a protection unit for the NSDAP leadership, the
Waffen-SS eventually grew into a huge force of thirty-eight combat divisions
comprising over 950,000 men. In the Nuremberg Trials, the Waffen-SS was
condemned as part of a criminal organisation, and therefore Waffen-SS veterans
were denied many of the rights afforded other German combat veterans.
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