Bill's Bunker - Foreign Volunteers in the WSS

[Sheikh Al Stranghi]

Hey, I'd like to promote a website built by a friend of mine, it's mainly about foreign volunteers (including Americans) in the Waffen-SS. It's a very interesting read, and I hope it will provide some new information!

http://www.bills-bunker.de/


Also a interesting article about the Wehrmacht in Iraq!

[apasc08]

great site. cudos to your friend. foreign volunteers are an interesting topic. a george washington legion>? fake of course but neat none the less.

[Hollis]

My mom told me that the Nazis would recruit in German Neighborhoods before the war. They looked pretty snazzy in their uniforms. There was a fair amount of support of N. Germany in the US. Look deeper in the isolationist movement prior WWII to get a better picture.

[[WDW]Megaraptor]

Is it true that 60% of Waffen-SS soldiers were non-Germans by 1945?

[PsihoKeke]

I think it was more like 40%. Towards the end of war Nazis were in dire need for soldiers so they created a number of foreign Waffen-SS divisions (there were allready few earlier).

[Razvodnik]

My mom told me that the Nazis would recruit in German Neighborhoods before the war. They looked pretty snazzy in their uniforms. There was a fair amount of support of N. Germany in the US. Look deeper in the isolationist movement prior WWII to get a better picture.

It was a target to motivate Germans by origin "Volksdeutsch" to move back to the "Reich". The Germans needed people to populate the new eastern areas. "Unser Volk braucht Lebensraum" was a popular quote from Goebels.

[2/1kiwi]

great read, thanks for the link

[nemowork]

http://www.bills-bunker.de/69289.htm...ession*id*val*

Soon after the Grand Mufti had left, Hauptmann Berger was informed that a force of two thousand British troops were camped only a few kilometers away! The British did not know how close they were to the Arab Brigade, so they camped out without digging any trenches, sleeping out on the open ground. Berger ordered Ali and Abdul to form-up the troops for an attack. They went in and the British were crushed in the suprise, although they ffought on, they could not win. The RAF flew low overhead but could not attack for fear of hitting their own men. Berger ordered Feldwebel Schwäbig (Luftwaffe Meldestelle) to redirect the Luftwaffe to their positions. Within minutes the Luftwaffe Me 110 fighter-bombers were overhead. Within seconds the first RAF bomber was shot down, ten minutes later the Luftwaffe were in total command of the sky. Berger´s Germans wanted to capture as many British as possible, but they could not be everywhere and the Arabs cut the throats of the unlucky ones who fell into their hands alive. No one escaped the slaughter from the Allied camp.

Anybody else finding this just a smidge unlikely? I mean Habforce had 6000 men in it, you'd think losing a third of their combat strength would hold up the victory a bit