Is it going to make me appreciate communism?

Not at al

Yeah, I'm interested. What's it about?

The SS man's real experiences before, during, and after the war

Fighting the Russians, why he joined, a bit about life in Germany, how the SS was disgraced by the Allies after the war

How were the SS disgraced by the Allies?

Because they were all painted with the same brush. What did they teach you about the SS in school?

Keep note, Russia was Commintern, not Allies.

they were their own faction.

That they were criminals, killers, etc. But that is not true. Very few had anything to do with atrocities.

No, they didn't. They lumped the Wehrmacht in with the SS and forgot to talk about the battle of Castle Itter

For the most part the SS were elite soldiers, fighting to stop communism from invading their homeland.

Not necessarily Nazis, maybe they didn't really agree with Hitler, but they knew what the red plague would mean for their families

Given the choice between joining the red army and fighting for Hitler, I would fight for Hitler. (If I didn't know the outcome of the war).

I don't even think Hitler *wanted* the extermination of the Jews. His original plan was to deport them, and he was paying them to leave his country. The ones that **refused** to leave were locked up.

Heinrich Himmler was a monster.

Unfortunately, was best friends with Hitler.

i tell you

the germans were saviors of the white race

and the commies were here just not letting the nazis liberate them of their land

smh

There's some truth to that actually. The original plan was deportation. To Israel. In a weird way you could say Hitler was a Zionist.

The major influence in stopping that was Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a mentor of the better-known Yasser Arafat

Hitler was a National Socialist, not a murderer. He believed in the sovereign state of Israel, and retaking German lands after the Entente fucked over germany in WW1

I think they were actually relatives, like cousins or a great uncle

man

Amin did not want Jews in that area, obviously, being Muslim and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

i really wish the russians just laid their communist weapons down and let the germans liberate thyem

True soviet soldiers were honorable patriots who truly believed they were doing a good thing for Russia. Unfortunately, most were uneducated.

They didn't know.

So he put a stop to that part, and also helped Hitler raise three divisions of Muslims from Eastern Europe. The 13th, 21st, and 23rd Mountain Divisions of the SS

I respect the soviets. I do not respect the Bolshevists

Well of course most red army soldiers were conscripts, no choice.

"It takes a brave man to NOT be a hero in the Red Army" - Stalin

Since you'd get shot and God knows what happened to your family if you didn't charge blindly like an idiot into German machine gun fire

Shot in the back by a commissar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIX_Hv1-5QA

Let's move this to Discussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQtDgU_AywQ

https://youtu.be/jf8Y5lk6VOo

https://youtu.be/y34TbAxdvio

https://youtu.be/kSNZSfwtoKE