
Originally Posted by
Nanninga
What a load of rubbish here of those oh so brave Anglo-Saxons who think they had the better soldiers and like to spit on the graves of German soldiers. There were several waves of Waffen-SS soldiers:
1. Until 1939: These soldiers were well equipped and their drill was ok, but not perfectly fit to war. These troops were focused a little too much to look good in parades and focused too much on sport achievements and fitness (which are of course important, but not the only important aspect of a front soldier, the focus was not correct). They consisted of a few fanatic nazis, but also of people who just wanted to become civil servants in their later career.
2. From 1939-1944: These were the most fanatic, well equipped and best trained soldiers of WWII in Europe. "To give death and to take death" was their motto, they did both, for most of them was clear they would fall in combat and they were prepared to die for their idea of a national socialist Germany. If you ignore the Japanese soldiers they were by far the best soldiers of WWII, nevertheless they were often absolutely reckless and merciless.
3. From winter 1944-1945: They conscripted everything they could, even children, their skills as soldiers were no longer over average. Every experienced Wehrmacht Division was far beyond these soldiers.
It is really funny to see these Anglosaxon feelings of superiority, it was Red Army soldiers who fought for their lives who were able to fight down the German soldiers only by outnumbering them. In their desperate fight to take them out they lost 13 million soldiers. Sorry Yanks, your bombardements and your support of the Soviet Union may have been decisive, but an army who ran away because of 200 000 soldiers in the Ardennes, when they were unable to use their aircraft and when their soldiers ran out of choclate cake and whose main task it was to terrorize German civlians from the air should not claim their soldiers to be the bravest.
Us Angles and Saxons spit on the graves of German soldiers because they were murdering cowardly scum who committed warcrime after warcrime. They may have been psycopaths, and violent cretins, but that is even more reason to rejoice in their demise. To admire a member of the Waffen SS for any reason is a sign of acquiescence to the enormity of their crime. That is the real agenda behind those who eulogize German soldiers on here. It is a denial of the crimes committed by Nazi Germany, thinly disguised. I don't care if they were brave or not, as long as they are dead. If their death was slow and painful, so much the better.
Last edited by Heroclitus; Jul 18 2012 at 04:22 AM.
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