To Elsa:
Well, unfortunately the facts speak for themselves.
There are documented episodes of Waffen SS formations (The Hitler Jugend in the Normandy campaign, Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler in the 1940 Ardennes campaign and the Battle of the Bulge comes to mind) where they had executed prisoners. Because the standing order was that no prisoners are to be taken (alive that is).
But that does not alter the fact that the Waffen SS (some of the divisions anyway) were elite fighting formations, on par with the French Foreign Legion and the Marine Corps for their ferocity and fighting skills. Though I'd suspect people would foam at the mouth for putting all of them in the same sentence.
You may had noticed, Elsa, that there are some words that are trigger emotions. "Waffen SS" is one of those.
Let me prove it to you. I'll say two words to you, and tell me what you feel about it.
Death March
__________________
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell
Quote:I'm looking at the diatribes against John Ringo's "Watch an Rheim", especially about the Waffen SS.
Anyway, I read his stuff, yes - even the SS book, yes that one, and wasn't that much offended. But like I said I turn my triggers off and read it for what it is: fiction that's supposed to put food on his table and hopefully entertain the reader, with occasional contextual and subtextual diatribes and tirades. Besides if I really don't like a book, I stop reading and sell it off on the second-hand market and not have it pollute my library.
Well, unfortunately the facts speak for themselves.
There are documented episodes of Waffen SS formations (The Hitler Jugend in the Normandy campaign, Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler in the 1940 Ardennes campaign and the Battle of the Bulge comes to mind) where they had executed prisoners. Because the standing order was that no prisoners are to be taken (alive that is).
But that does not alter the fact that the Waffen SS (some of the divisions anyway) were elite fighting formations, on par with the French Foreign Legion and the Marine Corps for their ferocity and fighting skills. Though I'd suspect people would foam at the mouth for putting all of them in the same sentence.
You may had noticed, Elsa, that there are some words that are trigger emotions. "Waffen SS" is one of those.
Let me prove it to you. I'll say two words to you, and tell me what you feel about it.
Death March
__________________
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell