Soldiers of Leibstandarte SS in occupied Paris after the victory in France |
SS Volunteers enjoy their leave at Berlin's Strandbad Wannsee |
Waffen-SS in Occupied Paris |
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Soldiers of Leibstandarte SS in occupied Paris after the victory in France |
SS Volunteers enjoy their leave at Berlin's Strandbad Wannsee |
Waffen-SS in Occupied Paris |
The German military tolerated fraternization in the West and North Europe, but not in Eastern Europe. The different regulations were based on Nazi racial ideology as to which populations they considered racially pure enough as to be desirable for children born to their men. The number of war children born to French women in France by German soldier fathers is estimated to be 75,000 to 200,000.
ReplyDeleteIn practice the Germans fraternised on the Eastern Front too. I have read an SS infantrist biography where he makes a number of positive comments regarding the Slavs, particularly in the Ukraine, saying something like: "Our propaganda is saying these people are sub-humans, but in my eyes some of these people are more pure-hearted and Aryan than us". He also mentions that "Ukrainian women are much more conservative and prudish/well mannered than any girl in Germany who is often much more liberal". And this is a SS from Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, supposedly the most Nazi of Nazi, saying this.
DeleteSo the reality on the ground is pretty clear that most Germans found German propaganda to be preposterous and understood it just served a purpose as with any army in any war dehumanising the enemy. Even among the SS, the race ideology was laughed at and mocked.
The only real examples of Nazis who were true believers in their nonsense were the higher ups, like for example Erich Koch who was responsible for the Eastern occupied territories and apparently hated Slavs. But the rank & file Nazi, Army soldier, or SS soldier, didn't give a S.
Hitler was a rabid Anglophile, and did not want war with Britain (or France) at all.
ReplyDeleteHitler said in a speech in Munich on 8 November 1942 "When the English started to drop their bombs, I waited three and a half months and did nothing. At that time there were many who said: Why don't we answer them? We were already strong enough to do it. I waited, thinking simply that perhaps they would still come to their senses. During the winter of 1939-1940 a certain Mr. Churchill stated: The submarine danger is eliminated. Hitler is finished. He has destroyed two, three, five submarines daily. At that time, he destroyed more than we even had then. He was exhausted." Hitler can be criticized for many things but he always kept his formality :)
ReplyDeleteChurchill refused to even consider peace negotiations with Adolf Hitler. The Western democracies would have been left dominating Europe. The lives of millions of Western civilians and soldiers would have been spared.
ReplyDeleteMay deemed it fit to remind that the British bombed Berlin before the Blitz. As said above, the Blitz was the German response to the air raids on Berlin and other towns and cities by the RAF.
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