Yeah alot of the business men who "supported" and funded the nazi party only did so because of their anti-communist policies, I had heard of men from occupied countries being pressed into military service but I thought that was just the whermacht not SS, all I've been taught in gcse history is that all members of the SS had to be party members/supporters, but that is Nazi Germany 1933-39
all I've been taught in gcse history is that all members of the SS had to be party members/supporters, but that is Nazi Germany 1933-39
same here, I got into a really heated argument with my teacher over this.
I brought up some info i got off here, googled it on the projector smuggly hoping i had got it wrong, then when in turned out there was SS members from many places round the world, she was very embarrased, although i belive if it was said in an exam you would be marked as wrong.
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all I've been taught in gcse history is that all members of the SS had to be party members/supporters, but that is Nazi Germany 1933-39
same here, I got into a really heated argument with my teacher over this.
I brought up some info i got off here, googled it on the projector smuggly hoping i had got it wrong, then when in turned out there was SS members from many places round the world, she was very embarrased, although i belive if it was said in an exam you would be marked as wrong.
Just goes to show how our liberal minded, politically correct education system is failing entire generations of children by omitting the real truth. My son had a similar experience in an R.E class a few months ago, with a teacher preaching about how evil the Romans were to the poor old innocent christians and jews! That too was on the curriculum as the "correct" answer.
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No, in the period 1933-39 you'd have had a tough time geting into the SS if you weren't German.
Ok all that changed during the war when they ended up accepting anybody who could see lightning and hear thunder but in Germany 1933-39 it's bob on.
all I've been taught in gcse history is that all members of the SS had to be party members/supporters, but that is Nazi Germany 1933-39
same here, I got into a really heated argument with my teacher over this.
I brought up some info i got off here, googled it on the projector smuggly hoping i had got it wrong, then when in turned out there was SS members from many places round the world, she was very embarrased, although i belive if it was said in an exam you would be marked as wrong.Just goes to show how our liberal minded, politically correct education system is failing entire generations of children by omitting the real truth. My son had a similar experience in an R.E class a few months ago, with a teacher preaching about how evil the Romans were to the poor old innocent christians and jews! That too was on the curriculum as the "correct" answer.
My daughter had a similar experience at primary school. The teacher was telling the class about how all the railings were cut down and pots and pans handed over to use to make aircraft and armaments. When Emily told the teacher that it was in fact a load of moral boosting propaganda, aimed at helping to unite the population and make them all feel like they were pulling together, and that very little of the metal was needed or indeed of good enough quality to use for those purposes, she was told flat out that she was wrong. What the hell was the point in her asking me about it the week before and us researching it properly, if the teachers and curriculum are stuck with their own blinkered views? A friend of my mothers owned a scrapyard that had a huge heap of it still lying around in the early eighties, and it wasn't worth him recycling it! It was cheaper to dig iron ore out of the ground and even to import it from other countries, than to try to get anything useful out of all the WWII scrap iron he had. Nationwide, the vast majority of it ended up being dumped in river estuaries 
Dang! I want my bloomin' railings back. 
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La armee generica does me fine.
To the tune of "Mademoiselle from Armentières"
Napoleons army ran away, As you do
The guard stood firm for Frances Pride, As you do
They said the guard will stand and die
But we heard what their Colonel cried
It wasn't pretty I tell you.
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