Traitors to their own country

@@gordonfleming458 Were anti-communists!

MIght have been forty percent of the formations designated as "divisions", but certainly NOT forty percent of the Waffen SS PERSONNEL. Many of these non-German SS divisions had either an all-German HQ staff and/or COs. Also, the Spanish "Blue" Division, its Heer designation being the 250th Infantry, was NOT an SS formation. Franco, though certainly a fascist and strongly anti-communist himself (with good reason, as the Communist Internationale, supported by the Soviet Union, backed the "Republicans" in the Spanish Civil War), forbad these volunteers from joining the Nazi Party. The Blue Division didn't lack for volunteers, as the "Phalangists" were eager for some "payback" against the Soviet Union, but, at the same time, Franco didn't want war with the UK and/or the USA.

@@selfdo plenty Spanish waiters manuel

@@frederickwarren4158 still traitors! Most of them were also anti-Jew. Guess you are ok with that bit too or now pretend that it is just the communist part honest...

Ja!

Such a fundamental error. Manche Leute machen ihre Hausaufgaben nicht.

And it does not rhyme with "laughin' ".

V = F (fau) and W = V, F is just F.

@@petersoerent2554 yes, a VW (beetle) car is pronounce fau vee in German.

Nonsense !

Mien Herr, the correct pronunciation of theWaffen SS is not waafen but waffen SS I am not with you to help with the correct pronunciation, but I hope that this gives you an idea of the correct pronunciation 😮

In the beginning of the war the Waffen SS was an elite highly motivated fighting force. Later in the war, to fill the dediminished ranks, captured country populations were allowed in

@@rickflorke7605willing people who wanted to fight for Fascism were let into the SS. They still had to be trained.

Not all of them. Some where very good and definitely elite but others were 2nd or 3rd rait units. And then there were the real bottom of the barrel units like Dirlewanger and the Kaminski brigade.

He did that because he was a Finn and he hated communism. Between that and the fact that his own nation tried to prosecute him for joining the SS after they gave up fighting over Karelia, I have a feeling he was ready for greener pastures. Many many captured SS troops ended up in the French foreign legion too. Ultimately, they had to find a way to sustain themselves, and I'm going to guess SS men had issues drawing a pension.

He served in our military too, I got no problem with it

Why shouldn't he have been buried in Arlington?

@@blakekenley1000 SS never had any issues getting their pension.

@@blakekenley1000 "SS troops ended up in the French foreign legion". Growing up in the late 60's my Mom made a friend who ended up staying with us. She was French but had a Spanish name. Turned out her father was on the losing side of the Spanish Civil war and joined the French foreign legion so that the family could emigrate. I met him one time and he said some of the hardest parts was having to serve with the some of the same Germans that forced him to leave Spain.

Maybe half the waffen ss weren't German

@@dannypickering5623 The Nazis had in mind that their organization would become an international white supremacists movement. That is its greatest danger!

They never were. They were all that one guy who rebelled, and stood up against the man. That, or they know that the communist propaganda took over and to admit wrongthink is to lose your life. The Nazi's opposed foreign interference in their country. Three times their attempt at unification was quashed by foreign interference, because keeping their country broken into 25+ tiny states meant they could be micro managed easier. Even Churchill said 'the greatest wrong Germany has committed is to rob international banking of it's rightful dues'. That's what it was all about. They opposed the money lender megacorps that kept their people enslaved to the point women had to sell themselves to feed their children. To understand the situation more, read about the unification of Germany, or simply read Mein Kampf. Hitler wasn't 'crazy'. We were just misled to fight against our brothers.

Also - my maternal great grand father was Das Reich SS. My paternal grandfather was a communist partisan who got shot for blowing up railway lines with his mates. My paternal grandparents were all on the allied side. Made for interesting Christmas dinners. Nah, they never met unfortunately. BUT. Every allied fighter before their death conceded that they fear they fought for the wrong side - and if they knew this is how the world would turn out they'd never have raised arms against Hitler. Even the partisan grandfather, who literally still had six bullets in his body when he died of old age not so long back. (It was a pretty crazy story, he passed out and came too in a pile of corpses, gnarly scars from it too - when he returned home he saw the rest of his friends had been hung because they blew up the train with him, it killed a bunch of innocents though - when the war ended these communist war criminals were positioned as police to enforce the 'denazification' of Europe, which was basically just mass murder all over again as commies always do).

It is history now however it is not true that they weren’t given a choice like they were forced to join the SS. Yes military service was mandatory and it is true that the SS troops unfortunately committed atrocities. It is always like this when a nation is defeated. Just in 1939 millions and millions were saluting Hitler and the Nazis. Suddenly as of May 1945 no one is Nazi or pro Nazi anymore. This is the true human nature: Denial. Sarcastically In the end the victorious will write history and they paint themselves like angels fighting a clean war. All parties committed atrocities to a different extent. There is no clean war.

@@TommyAtkins-eh8cd you don't half talk a load of BS

@@TommyAtkins-eh8cd wow - epic comment - thank you for sharing

Yeah lets just skip over the fact the SS would get brutal treatment because of what they did to the Soviet prisoners and civilians when they invaded. It wasn't a "you or I" as you put it, it was "oh crap they will be really brutal after all the stuff I've been doing to their mothers and children"

The so-called "foreign legions" were the result, in part, of Himmler's ploy to circumvent army-imposed restrictions of Waffen recruitment. Belgians, Danes, Swedes, etc. may have been "aryans," but they were also not Germans and thus could be added freely to the Waffen's strength. Many of the more exotic formations (Muslims, Serbo-Croations, etc) were pretty far from the quality of the seven elite panzers divisions cited in this video and many were trained and deployed in the vicious anti-partisan fighting in the East. The Charlemagne unit, if I remember correctly, was never a division, but rather a "legion" of indterminate strength, probably closer to a battalion -- if that -- by the time of the fall of Berlin. The Indian Waffen was largely a propaganda device, numbering no more than a hundred or so at best. Even fewer on the ground were the members of the British SS, who were never deployed in any battle. American SS members could literally be counted on fingers and toes, the most notorious of which was a USAAF pilot who stole a P-38 in North Africa, defected to the Germans in Italy, served briefly as a radio propagandist and later as a German war correspondent before improbably enough re-enlisting in the American air force under his mother's name at war's end and rising to the rank of staff sergeant before being discovered.

Forgot finnish 5ss wining

Schizophennia SS Looking at film footage off Germens on east front ahh spotted Tongans/ Samoans with them- Allot off Samoa/ Tonga/ New Zealand had German ancestry and called Germany Their Motherland

And treated a lot of them like crap, there were at least 2 documented mutinies I know of...

@@HankWest-er8iw There was one that happened with some Ukrainians who wanted to fight Russia, but ended up in France instead. They not only deserted but killed their German officers and joined the French Resistance bringing all their heavy weapons with them. Most later joined the Foreign Legion.

Frl ? How yk

Please Read The Devils Guard WAFFEN SS Fighting in French Indochina DIEN BIEN PHU 1954 RIP. LBC. 🌊🏖️🍀🍀🍀

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The Wehrmacht was run mainly by Prussian aristocracy who looked down upon the SS because the were commoners and not subservient to them. I mean they had their own command structure.

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Agree. And why would they respect them when some of the Waffen SS officers were randomly promoted without a military academic training. However some of those excelled in battles. Wehrmacht officers remained better strategists by far compared to the SS

@@user-zg9yd2gx2s Clapped about my friends mothers death or her nightmares about the Gestapo? Both very joyful occassions!

Guess your friend didn’t fight in the Bulge…😏

@@francopasta3704 We are only talking one man's experience during ww2, that doesn't mean there weren't heroic Americans. My friends mother's ex-husband had an even better story. He was regular German army and tried to surrender to US troops at the end of the war. He ran into a young US soldier and tried to surrender. The soldier was lost and tried to head to the German lines. The ex had to take the US soldiers weapon away and had to march him at gunpoint to the US lines. When they finally saw a US flag he gave the weapon back and surrendered. My Father flew PBY's in the Pacific and saw only Japanese.

⁠@@user-vj2wt7jh7jIt was just a different experience for American boys, they weren’t accustomed to years of fanatical brainwashing by Soviet or Nazi authorities, their life was generally better even during the depression so you’re less incentivized to go runout in the field and get yourself blown up for a cause. Being careful is not the same as being cowardly. This is why Patton was such an effective leader, he knew it was his job to make the other SOB die not our own. It’s also why the American leadership chose to sit it out and let the Russians bleed capturing Berlin.

Good less dogs to feed.

''Loved' Ancient warfare- Using 18th century war Tactics? = REALLY? - May need to Read more! Versatility in Command & tactics, was part of their Operational ethos - Not to say that some early SS members were not 'grounded' in practical battlefield survival! Waffen SS were WASTED, in the Early parts of the 2ND WW 'Globalist Experiment', due to Disdain of said troops by Wehrmacht High command, until the same SS were reorganised into their own separated command structures. Must have been 18th Century 'Romantic' warfare skills, that got SS troops thru scenarios, that other units couldn't (no disrespect to normal German forces, & not a reference to Latter waffen SS 'Replacements') have, or shouldn't have survived. As for Counter offensives by small bands of Waffen SS, - How many times, even at great cost, did this Áction', save other forces from destruction/ being overrun? Only the Forces there, at that particular time, will EVER know! References to SS troops operational in Normandy, in This Video IS Simplistic! Loss of Luftwaffe Air support, & the large distances having to be traversed due to loss of rail infrastructure, caused excessive time losses & difficult, if not impossible Deployment options for these units, who even after Divisional refits, were hounded by Allied air forces, & Others, most of the way to their Destinations. How about a video on Mass murder of captured Waffen SS Divisions (& including standard German troops), after capture (Especially by U.S. forces), Without charge/ Trial/ representation - Maybe, the 'Reasoning' behind Allied forces, post WW2, Rebadging captured POWs as DEFs, to 'Wipe out' as many Captured forces as Possible - Orders from D.D. Eisenhower Supreme Allied Commander, & W. Churchill - British P.M. Start with the The Rheinwiesenlager. - Very 'Romantic'. I'm 4th gen Australian. Maybe, current German politicians, who were NOT alive - nor understand TRUE deprivations, during this period, should also read more, & appreciate ALL of their previous historic kinsmen & Women's energies/ tragedies/ Inputs & losses, & manifest it into wisdom Today! Allies of the Willing & All! Wellness

It has been said that Hitler was the best ally the Allies had.

Best army? Which army is among the best, Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS? Doesn't the "best army" win all its battles and campaigns? Where's these "best armies" now? The WW1 helped to make a strict fact: just the best arranged army does not win the war. Country which has the biggest industrial capacity wins the wars! As we had seen in WW1 and WW2. Nazi Germany didn't even produce ordinary infantry's rifle ammo as much as in WW1! Stiff militarism works in parades, but if it does not have industry's support, it does not matter in front, not at all. The Soviet Red Army hit the shit out of these "best" during 1944 - 1945. And now: Red army is in the dark past...

@@esajuhanirintamaki965 FYI, the Wehrmacht was not the German Army of WWI, the term Wehrmacht refers to the entire German armed forces (Heer, Luftwaffe, & Kriegsmarine) but did not include the Waffen SS which fell under the command of the SS but were under the operational control of the Wehrmacht. The name for the German Army then and now is Heer.

@@esajuhanirintamaki965consequently the Red army was the worst army with terrible casualty ratios because of a lack of respect for life and most of the competent generals were purged by Stalin. But they won with sheer numbers.

@@mikeg2491 You're right. Russia wasted its muzhiks even in the WW1. And it's the same thing in Ukraine today.

Can’t agree with the statement regarding Panzer Lehr being more effective than the 12 SS. Total rubbish. Bayerlein was a nervous wreck by 44 and his division’s performance reflected this compared to the audacious and aggressive leadership of Meyer and Max Wunsche.

@@Blair338RUM The PL division was engaged in much of the heaviest fighting on the Normandy front. And they fought the Allies to a standstill on numerous occasions. By the time they were pulled out, they had almost virtually fought themselves to extinction. And this would not be the only time they did that. This was a division made up of the best, and most experienced soldiers the Heer had, not courageous but inexperienced, fanatical young boys. The 12th SS HitlerJugend got its baptism of fire at Normandy. Sure, their commanding officers were already experienced, but not the fighting men itself. The PanzerLehr was already highly experienced by then. And by the end of the war, they had proven their mettle time and time again. And they achieved all this without having to commit atrocities.

The last Arseholes. But wait Putin -Hitler is doing the same

Before I read your comment, I noticed that one of the SS appeared to be carrying one our M-1 or M-2 carbines in the video. Supposedly they would execute prisoners caught carrying German weapons....In the USAF from 1968 to 72, I spent a lot of duty time with an M-2 carbine.

@@cleondubois1270 You might be amused that the Germans captured and reissued enough M1 carbines to designate them with the name Selbstladecarabiner 455(a).

Morale. Morale goes farther than proper equipment.

Pretty sure it’s an AI voice, but ja.

@@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz I know its a robot -- "he" can't pronounce names worth...well, he can't.

Oh man! I think he musta said it about 100 times!!

Only when read in German.

Ha ha ha ha ha

Latvian legion was part of Waffen SS too, and there were mainly conscripts not volunteers.

Remember: the Soviet Red army beated shit out of these "best". Doesn't best mean that it wins all campaigns? Best? It was easy to machine-gun innocent civilians to death...

Many of the Waffle SS came from Belgium.

​@@Chiller11😂 I love the waffless with chocolate

@@Chiller11 Whoops! Waffen Whoops

@@PeasantNo.471 yup, I waffled the Waffen.

It's those Luftwaffle squadrons you gotta be careful of. Crumbs, butter, syrup all over the f'in walls in the carpet. Luftwaffles seem to show up about the same time as the Grandkids.

Please Respect

I agree: if you are serious about your history, you should also be serious about pronounciation of some important names... Same for Guderian, which should sound like "goo-derian" ... not "giyu-derian" ... The English AI voice is truly distracting (in a bad way), which will lead me to not view more of your productions...

in English?

What about ur descendants who did bad things ? No respect for them ?

SCHNEIDIG

English is pronounced in English.

But at least pronouncing it to rhyme with waffle would have been closer to the correct pronunciation than pronouncing it to rhyme with laugh. With all of the badly pronounced German words, I wonder if this video wasn't narrated by a (very good) AI voice.

Eh Germans or other Europeans who come to the US mispronounce our words all the time, you’re accustomed to saying things in a way that jives with how you grew up. I’ll still say Waffle SS because doing a hard V shape with my lips is physically uncomfortable. Foreign words get changed not out of ignorance but local syllable structure, trying to speak Arabic is like having to hock a loogie up if you aren’t born into the culture.