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he wasn't
he was a political prisoner
there were attempts to form a Lithuanian SS legion, but it failed.
I said over half of the SS were foreign, you said most were sent to concentration camps
I took that to mean you said most SS men were sent to concentration camps
I believe foreign SS members were sent to lagers either after they exhausted their use, or tried to rebel, however, without examining the proper documentation it's impossible to state it, so it's mostly a hypothesis.
Foreign SS recruits had to be age 17-45 so any foreigner born 1896 had to join before 1941
No such thing as exhausted their use on the Eastern Front, note the use of Hitlerjugend in the last days
and the afromention book may be a questionable source, because soviet censorship fucked with the manuscript.
they were pretty desperate in the last days, true
another hypothesis could be that the krauts just used them to commit war crimes, then whacked them afterwards.
but most likely the lot of them were sent head first into the red army's mg nests.
No. They were used as soldiers, not cannon fodder. No different than national units or the army
The SS that managed the concentration camps was separate from the fighting units
And easily confused by being called SS-VT and SS-TV
Anything you see with SS-TV is Holocaust stuff
SS-VT were later renamed Waffen-SS and were fighting men
SS-TV were distinguished by the death's head on their collar
The W-SS 3rd Panzer Division was made up of former TV, and did a lot of horrible things. The 13th, 21st, and 23rd Mountain Divisions were made up of eastern Euro Muslims who committed the vast majority of war crimes in eastern Europe outside of the camps
that's pretty interesting stuff, however, to study that here as a historian pretty much means a career suicide if you fail to comply with the current dogmas.
Those Muslims units were the only religious troops. They didn't have chaplains in other SS units
Studying the WW2 and post war here, goes pretty much like this: Krauts - good, jewshooting never happened(Lietukis garage pogrom), russia evil. no deviations allowed.
Wow
that's why as a history major, I'm taking medieval studies more or less
Interesting, it's the exact opposite here
Then you will probably like this book
It's legit, I've read it
I'll have to find a PDF of it. Not many books about the German side, most WW2 stuff here is on how average soviet soldier raped babies and shit
the one that's translated at least.
I wouldn't say average, but it did happen
Having read what few firsthand accounts exist from the Red Army
Good people don't survive long
Communist armies are set up with a unique command structure where an officer second in command is appointed by the party office at each level. The political commissar, responsible for discipline, administrative tasks, and ideology. He can also override the commander in many cases
the commisars were utter morons
Those are the ones in the famous photos that would shoot you in the back for retreating
Yes, because they were chosen based on politics, not leadership ability
sometimes it would be the other way around.
sometimes the trooper would whack the politruk
Not often enough it would seem