Niet-Duitsers die in dienst traden, gingen bij de SS, Duitsers in de Wehrmacht. Simpel genoeg.
Medelijden hoeft ie niet te hebben, maar die gast was een soldaat. Ze zouden gewoon iedereen onder een bepaalde rang (bijv. brigadegeneraal ofzo) met rust moeten laten. Soldaten bepalen geen strategie en tactiek, en bedenken ook geen protocollen voor hoe je moet optreden tegen aanslagen.
Ik weet niet hoe je aan al die onzin komt, maar de SS was eerst de persoonlijke beveiligingsdienst van Hitler en later de elitetroepen van Hitler. En praktisch alleen maar Duitsers, op een paar zieke geesten uit het buitenland na die alles boven alles bij de SS wilden en daarvoor ook goedgekeurd werden.
The De-Schutzstaffel.ogg Schutzstaffel (help·info) (German for "Protective Echelon"), abbreviated SS- or Runic "SS" (Runic)- was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The SS grew from a small paramilitary unit to a powerful force that served as the Führer's "Praetorian Guard," the Nazi Party's "Shield Squadron" and a force that, fielding almost a million men (both on the front lines and as political police), managed to exert as much political influence in the Third Reich as the Wehrmacht, Germany's regular armed forces. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS, under Heinrich Himmler's command, was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II, and most of the severest of those crimes.
Initially numerically smaller than Ernst Röhm's Sturmabteilung (Storm Battalion abbreviated SA), the SS grew in size and power due to its exclusive loyalty to Hitler, as opposed to the SA, which was seen as semi-independent and a threat to Hitler's hegemony over the party. Under Himmler, the SS selected its members according to the Nazi ideology. Creating elite police and military units such as the Waffen-SS, Himmler used the SS to form an order of men claimed to be superior in racial purity and ability to other Germans and national groups, a model for the Nazi vision of a master race. During World War II, SS units operated alongside the regular German Army; and in the final stages of the war, the SS came to dominate the Wehrmacht in order to eliminate perceived threats to Hitler's power while implementing his strategies, despite the increasingly futile German war effort.
According to the Nuremberg Trials, as well as countless war crimes investigations and trials conducted over the past sixty years, the SS was responsible for the vast majority of war crimes perpetrated under the Nazi regime; in particular, it was the primary organization which carried out the Holocaust. As part of its race-centric functions, the SS oversaw the isolation and displacement of Jews from the populations of the conquered territories, seizing their assets and transporting them to concentration camps and ghettos where they would be used as slave labor (pending extermination) or immediately killed.
Chosen to implement the Nazi "Final Solution" for the Jews and other groups deemed inferior (and/or enemies of the state), the SS carried out the killing, torture and enslavement of approximately twelve million people. Most victims were Jews or of Polish or other Slavic extraction, but other racial/ethnic groups such as the Romani made up a significant number of victims. Furthermore, the SS purge was extended to those viewed as threats to "race hygiene" or Nazi ideology -- including political dissidents, homosexuals, and the mentally or physically handicapped. Members of labor organizations and those perceived to be affiliated with groups (religious, political, social and otherwise) that opposed the regime, or were seen to have views contradictory to the goals of the Nazi government, were rounded up in large numbers; these included clergy of all faiths, Jehovah's Witnesses, Freemasons, Communists, and Rotary Club members.
Foreseeing Nazi defeat in the war, a significant number of SS personnel organized their escape to South American nations. These escapes are said to have been assisted by an organization known as ODESSA, an acronym of the German phrase Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, which translates as the Organization of Former Members of the SS. Many others were captured and prosecuted by Allied authorities at the Nuremberg Trials for war crimes, and absconding SS criminals were the targets of police forces in various Allied nations, post-war Germany, Austria and Israel.
Zegt genoeg denk ik.
Maar wat jou betreft was Neurenberg dus ook onterecht?
Uitspraak van verwijderd op woensdag 4 november 2009 om 18:29:
Blijft natuurlijk een feit, dat NIEMAND er nu meer iets op schiet als hij straks veroordeeld wordt. Sterker nog, het levert 0.0 positiefs op, en wél een hele hoop ellende voor onschuldigen, want zijn kinderen, partner, kleinkinderen en vrienden, zijn straks een dierbare kwijt, terwijl ie nog gewoon leeft.
Het heeft een
enorm voordeel: een waarschuwing aan iedere zieke geest die hier ooit nog over na durft te denken in positieve zin. De boodschap: hoe lang je ook wegrent en schuilt, uiteindelijk zal het recht altijd zegevieren.
En hoe zit het met de kinderen, partners, kleinkinderen en vrienden van zijn slachtoffers? Die hebben wat mij betreft 1000x voorrang op de kring rond die schoft. Sterker nog: ik zou hoogstpersoonlijk afstand van hem nemen als ik in zijn kringen verkeerde; al was het mijn bloedeigen vader geweest.
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