the SS was mostly a volunteer force. Although I don't know how many Russian ex-POW's really had a choice.
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > How many of those soldiers didn't have a choice? It wasn't exactly a > volunteer army and some of that may have been well do this or you die. I am > sure there were some die hard Nazi's in the unit as well, but I doubt all > were. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 4:18 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Candidate responds to charge he dressed as Nazi - CNN Political > Ticker - CNN.c > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sounds to me like he was attempting an analysis of the soldiers in the > unit, >> suggesting that they felt Soviet Communism was a bigger threat to their >> country than Nazism, so they chose to fight what they saw was the greater > of >> the two evils. Politically tone deaf, absolutely. As much as anything, >> that's his weakness as a candidate. > > He definitely was doing an analysis of the soldiers in the unit for > part of it. When they talk about them being "collaborators" he says > that he doesn't agree with that, that they were fighting a bigger evil > which, in context, is obviously the Soviet Union. I think that it is a > disingenuous move though since the Nazi SS weren't so much foot > soliders serving to hold the eastern front as they were a high-level, > political, police force charged with doing the Reich's dirtiest work. > If you were Latvian and saw yourself as having to make a choice > between Hitler or Stalin, I could certainly see choosing Hitler. A > damned if you do, damned if you don't sort of choice about who is > going to rule your homeland. Joining the Wiking division of the SS > though? That's a bit different and I think it is disingenuous for him > to suggest otherwise. > > And, really, when it comes down to it and you have to waffle and say > "I don't think we can judge them", well, he may not be a nazi > sympathizer but he doesn't seem to have much moral grounding. > > Juda > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329104 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
