Re: There is a difference between the German Army and the Nazis

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Posted by Anejo Joe from 151.greenville-03-04rs.sc.dial-access.att.net on July 23, 1999 at 23:37:31:

In Reply to: There is a difference between the German Army and the Nazis posted by Abner on July 21, 1999 at 15:13:40:

: There is a distinction to be made between the German Army (Wermacht) and the Nazi Party. The German Army was made up of ordinary Germans who may or may not have been Nazis, as well as captured soldiers from Russia, Eastern Europe, and even the Far East! Then there were the Nazi groups such as the Stormtroopers (SA), Gestapo, and SS. There was also a division between the Waffen-SS who were Germany's elite soldiers (think Saving Private Ryan) and the regular SS who were murderers (think Schindler's List). Not that it really mattered to Indy- they were all bad guys! I do think however there was a conscious decision to put Indy in an Army officer's uniform rather than a uniform of one of the other more despicable organizations.

: Danno is right about Rommel, too. Count von Stauffenberg, an Army officer, was killed along with many "conspirators" including Rommel for his attempted assassination of Hitler. He currently has a street named after him in one of the larger German cities, I forget which.

: Cheers,
: Abner
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The SS. What started out as an elite organization, had by the war's end become one-fourth of the German Army. It was a means for Himler to increase his power. It was his "private army". As manpower in Germany ran low, eventually non-Germanic peoples were included in the SS to build its strength. The SS was divided into two parts. The vast majority were Waffen SS, elite troops and armored divisions, sort of shock troops, and received special consideration by the Allies. The Einsatsgruppen SS were the extermination squads and concentration camp guards. Among the SS it was considered a kind of punishment to be assigned to these units. Many of the units interested in things like archaeology were part of the Luftwaffe. Goering was a collector, and had a interesting in recovering and owing artifacts. But in 1936 it would have been extremely improbable for a uniformed German officer to have been in Egypt, which was a British protectorate.
PS: My German spelling is not what it once was.


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