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WAR AND SOLDIERS
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They were Hitler's bodyguards
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Leader säälimättömiä suojelijoita.
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But these loyal Nazis were also the most feared warriors of the war.
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The Waffen SS, the SS combat troops, were known for perseverance.
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The Waffen SS was the countless times a cornerstone of the German defense
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who always fought to the last man.
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The enemy paid tribute to their courage
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but feared for their brutality.
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Waffen SS men claim that only totelleensa commands.
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We had heard rumors of concentration camps
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but in the camps of the SS exercised in the name of the atrocities
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are not related to the Waffen SS in any way. We were just soldiers.
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Many SS's dark reputation have created offenses
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did the organization of other branches, such as the Gestapo
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the concentration camps guards and tuhoamispartiot.
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But the Waffen SS was guilty of terrible atrocities.
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The worst of them was the destruction of the village of Oradour
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and the killing of 648 inhabitants in June 1944.
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Veterans still do not admit evidence of this occurring.
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The server Waffen SS throughout the war.
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I did not see a single war crimes.
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Who were the men who were able to both heroism and brutality?
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This elite group dating back to the early days of the Nazi Party.
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Germany paid the price for the 1918 defeat.
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The Weimar Republic was in trouble because of the severe peace terms.
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Germany suffered due to heavy war reparations inflation and unemployment.
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The people went towards extremism, the communists and Hitler's Nazis.
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Confrontations were seen often.
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The Nazis established the 1922
Sturmabteilung , or SA
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to protect the party's speakers. They began to say ruskeapaidoiksi.
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SA's Director of Ernst Röhm was founded a year later
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to protect the special unit of Hitler.
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The men were identified by a black cap.
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It soon resigned from the brown shirts, took the name of Schutzstaffel , or SS
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and began to use entirely black look.
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In 1929, the kilt-looking but ruthless Heinrich Himmler
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rose to the SS lead.
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It was still a small organization compared to 60,000 men SA.
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SS Himmler stressed the disparities between the EU and SA.
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SA He was a para-military unit
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and the SS was the elite group of people and an integral part of the Nazi Party.
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He scrape the party's intelligence and racial issues of the SS under.
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When Hitler became Chancellor in 1933
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SS got the important new tasks.
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It provided security guards for the new Dachau concentration camp near Munich.
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This was the beginning of the SS dismal share of the mass murder of the Jews.
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SS received in 1936 under its auspices also of the secret police, the Gestapo
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that Hermann Goering had set up in 1933.
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The whole control mechanism and violence was directly controlled by Himmler.
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In addition to the Führer ordered the SS to set up a separate unit
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which received the name of the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.
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It later grew Waffen SS, ie an armed SS.
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Leibstandarte oli Hitlerin henkivartiokaarti.
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It is guarded by the kingdom's Office and the Führer's castle in Berchtesgaden.
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First World War Staff Sergeant Sepp Dietrich
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had risen to Hitler's inner circle and was commander of the Leibstandarte.
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Guard consisted only of volunteers. They were to be 2335 years old
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in excellent physical condition, and at least 180 cm long.
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Applicants also had to prove that it is fully clean Aryans.
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SS Himmler's view, was the party's best
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alokkaisiin so indoctrinated by Nazi doctrine and the concept of the Master.
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Therefore, the Waffen SS was so ruthless in battle.
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Lichterfelden kasarmille is majoittui
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which had operated during the emperor's prestigious officer school.
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The army took care of military training.
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Exercise and field exercises was a lot.
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The men of the Leibstandarte were proud Equipment and parade.
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Other SS units mocking "tarmac as soldiers."
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SA maintained its influence in the SS, in spite of the increase.
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Röhm even suggested that brown shirts was raised above the army.
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Hitler stated that Röhmistä was becoming a threat.
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He flew to Munich in the early morning 30.6. 1934.
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He was accompanied by Sepp Dietrich and selected Leibstandarte unit.
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Hitler was arrested Röhm hotel by the lake
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Dietrich and carried out further arrests in Munich.
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Arrests were also made in Berlin. Leibstandarte took care of the executions.
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Karl Wolff, Himmler's adjudantti later explained
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that friendships are not stopped the SS.
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Among them was Count von Spretich, Röhm's adjutant.
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I was then Himmler's adjutant.
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His last words were: "Heil Hitler."
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We were close friends and often dine together.
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He raised his hands and exclaimed: "Heil Hitler Long live Germany!"
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Leibstandarte had proved their faithfulness.
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The prize does not have to wait long.
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SS helped to destroy Röhm's brown shirts
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and the praise of Hitler expanded it.
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Alongside the Leibstandarte was founded two new regiments
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the so-called
SS Verfügungstruppe ie SS VT.
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They were independently functioning special units.
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The organization expanded, but applicants still set strict requirements.
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SS VT was Hitler's elite unit, who believed in their own superiority.
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Expansion of course angered the Army
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who doubted Hitler's converging competing armed forces.
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But he thought that the war broke out
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SS VT be attached the Army Divisions.
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But the army did not give up the SS VT for
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it needs artillery and other equipment.
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The generals argued that the growing power of the military liiennyt equipment.
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Nonetheless, the military helped the SS VT's in training
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and agreed to surrender an officer SS Old Testament.
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Experienced Paul Hausser became a Waffen SS Inspector General.
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Army Training Felix Steiner was transferred to the Waffen SS.
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He had been an assault troops
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and wanted to educate the Waffen SS attack set.
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It would proceed at the head, and the army should be followed as cannon fodder.
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The aim was to train hard and ruthless men
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and Hausser and Steiner were a great success.
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But at the same time men stopped indifferent to the human spirit.
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It laid the foundation for the crimes that ruined the Waffen SS's reputation.
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The Army received the command of the Leibstandarte
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when Austria annexed by Germany in March 1938
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and Germany conquered the autumn of Czechoslovakia Sudeten Land.
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England and France did not react to the invasion of Czechoslovakia
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so Hitler believed he could take over the next Poland.
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SS VT went the first time in a real battle.
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SS VT fought in Poland motorized infantry regiments.
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Hitler closely followed the progress of the Leibstandarte Dietrich
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and meant a daily basis its office on the map, "Sepp".
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Germany conquered Poland easily
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but the army was not satisfied with the SS VT's operations.
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It made no attempt to avoid losses
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burned villages frighteningly frequent and ill-treated civilians.
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Himmler said that the SS would fight better as a unit
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as unidentified officers under.
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Hitler gave permission to expand SS
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but he considered the new units under the command of the Army.
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Leibstandarte remained as a separate regiment
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but combined with other Divisions.
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The second division was assembled police officers
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and created in the third concentration camps as guards units.
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The division was renamed the SS Totenkopf.
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Its commander, Theodor Eicke had commanded Dachau
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and was famous for the brutality.
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Also expanded the SS VT was renamed.
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It worked from March 1940 as the Waffen SS
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as a separate branch of the German armed forces.
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Hitler began 10. 5. 1940 the long-awaited attack on the West.
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Leibstandarte and another SS regiment proceeded at the forefront of the attack.
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Paratroopers captured the Dutch airports.
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The five-day battles
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Leibstandarte worked his way paratroopers creates.
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Rotterdam incident occurred
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where the paratroopers of General Kurt Student wounded.
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He doubted that the shooter was an SS man, but Leibstandarte denied.
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The Waffen SS was not included in the Ardennes and the Meuse River crossing.
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SS Totenkopf was transferred among the targeted west of attack
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to support Erwin Rommel's 7th armored division.
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The British departed 21. 5. counterattack
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7. panssaridivisioonan
ja SS Totenkopfin sivustaan.
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Attack surprised the Germans
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and caused havoc in the ranks of Totenkopf
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before progression then continue.
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The Germans besieged the British and the French port of Dunkirk.
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SS Leibstandarte oli kiristämässä saartorengasta.
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It faced strong resistance, especially Wormhoudtin village.
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Dietrich's car was hit, and he was forced for a time to protect themselves from the ditch.
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The village were conquered until nightfall.
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Leibstandarte received the British prisoners. Approximately 90 men closed the barn.
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One of the survivors will tell you what happened then.
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They took five men at a time out. I was in the second group.
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We turned her back, and they shot. I crawled back to the barn when virkosin.
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When the Germans were shooting, the boys fell upon me.
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I just hit the knee.
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This is the first of those acts, with the Waffen SS got a dark reputation.
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Also Theodor Eicken Totenkopf killed prisoners of war.
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Le Paradis were murdered in the village of nearly a hundred British soldiers.
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Hitler spoke to the western front in honor of the victory
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Berlin opera house on 19 July.
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He praised in particular the Waffen SS. It was tactically more skilful
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but brainwashed soldiers were daring
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and terrifying homicidal.
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Himmler wanted to increase the Waffen SS
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even though the army needed new men.
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Hitler agreed to a small extension and a significant change.
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The new SS Viking Division
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were occupied country racially valid for men.
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The division became a right-wing Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway.
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A Danish tells us why he left.
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I fought as a volunteer in the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front
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a united Europe.
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I want to stress
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that it was the only chance to fight against communism.
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We could not do it alone.
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SS divisioonat Das Reich did Leibstandarte
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took part in the conquest of Yugoslavia and Greece in April 1941.
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Each unit excelled.
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One case describes well the Waffen SS's fighting spirit
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and its wish to demonstrate superiority.
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One of the Das Reich led to the companies of Walter Klingenberg
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he tried to make Belgrade before the Army valiorykmenttiä.
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Rain hampered progress and moved in a savivelliksi
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but she got there first on the Danube river.
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But all the river-border bridges had been destroyed.
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Klingenberg crossed the river in a rowing boat with 10 volunteer
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and rushed to the crowd encircle the German embassy.
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Klingenberg played from the Mayor
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and threatened to call an air attack.
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He had no radio, but the mayor believed in him and surrendered.
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Klingenberg was awarded the Knight of the Cross.
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He served in the Waffen SS
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until he collapsed in April 1945, shortly before Germany surrendered.
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Sepp Dietrich took in Athens against the Greek army's surrender.
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Hitler's favorite soldiers had risen heroes
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and the Waffen SS had received more fame bold fighters.
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Balkan campaign was only an interlude
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compared to the storm that Hitler now unleashed.
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He launched a 22.6. 1941 Operation Barbarossa:
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Attack the Soviet Union.
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Leibstandarte grown to full Divisions
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and all six of the Waffen SS division went on the offensive.
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The ideology came into the picture.
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Waffen SS believed that the Russians were lower race
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and the war was a crusade on behalf of Western civilization.
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As a result, the Waffen SS decided to win at any cost.
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The army began to respect its abilities
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this unprecedented cruel war.
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But the Waffen SS was soon equated with other SS units
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especially tuhoamispartioihin
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who murdered thousands of Soviet Jews.
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War against communism
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attracted the Waffen SS ranks of people throughout occupied Europe.
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These SS "the Foreign"
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were often Waffen SS ruthless compartments.
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Belgian Leon Degrelle was a typical volunteer.
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He was before the war led to the extreme right-wing party.
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He founded the Flemish Legion, which was attached to the Waffen SS
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and commanded the battles with the Soviet Union.
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Hitler awarded him knight of the cross and said:
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"If I had a son, he could wish to be like you."
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Waffen SS excelled in the winter 19411942 battles
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by showing tenacity.
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Leibstandarte, Totenkopf and Das Reich was moved to the west in the spring
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and they changed panssarijalkaväkidivisiooniksi.
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Himmler made sure that the divisions were given the best equipment
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and were higher than the Army's divisions.
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Army Corps returned to Paul Hausser under the command of the Soviet Union in 1943
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and achieved fame conquer the spring Harkov back.
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In particular, Sepp Dietrich excelled.
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Hitler gave him the Knight's Cross with swords, as well as one million mark.
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All now knew that the Waffen SS always fought to the last man.
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It became the commanders "fire brigade"
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which was thrown into the front hottest part of the battle to reverse the flow.
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Absolute obedience was the Waffen SS, the basic feature of the
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but the crew and officers intervals were straight forward than usual.
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Hitler's ideology warriors increasingly resorted to more brutal extracts.
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They did not give mercy to the Eastern Front bitter battles.
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They also knew that the enemy do not have mercy on them.
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So they decided more firmly not to surrender.
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Stalingrad was not the Waffen SS units at the beginning of the year 1943
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when an entire German army was forced to surrender.
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But it took part in the battle, who witnessed the war slipped into the passage.
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Germany has launched in July 1943 a major offensive
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which was intended to rectify the Kursk Front complicated.
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Waffen SS now comprised four army corps, about 12 divisions.
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Most of them took part in the largest tank battle of the war.
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Hitler was forced to suspend the attack after weeks of fighting.
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Germany was forced on the defensive
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and forwards an overrunning the Red Army began to liberate Russia.
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SS divisions were once again the defense establishment.
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They made relentlessly resist Russian advances towards the west.
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Hitler knew that the threat of Allied grew in the West.
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Italy was attacked and UK troops were being assembled.
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The landing was coming
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and it meant new tasks in the Waffen SS.
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The Germans were waiting for the disembarkation of France and the Netherlands in 1944.
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Atlantic barrier cannons, barriers and behind the infantry divisions
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had been brought to 11 armor and armored infantry divisions.
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Four divisions belonged to the Waffen SS.
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Das Reich was in South France
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and 17 SS armored infantry division of the Loire Valley.
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Leibstandarte was supplemented by Belgium.
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Near Paris was the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitler Jugend.
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It was composed in accordance with the name Hitler Jugend young men.
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The officers and non-commissioned officers had combat experience.
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Hitler Jugend soldiers had grown up in the Nazi reign of.
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They had been taught that only the strongest will survive
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and war is the human uljain achievement.
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They became Hitler's fanatical soldiers.
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Three divisions were Dietrich 1. SS armored army base.
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After the Battle of Normandy began on 6 June
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Nearby there was only one armored division
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and even that was too scattered to be able to counterattack.
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Tank divisions did not get moved without Hitler's permission.
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No one dared to awaken the Führer
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so the Hitler Jugend, who issued only in the afternoon.
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It came into contact battle the next day the night before.
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However, it did not get to start the counterattack
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but was forced to defend with all our might.
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The British were 13.6. about to make a breakthrough
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Villers Bocagen at the village.
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The Soviet Union received the Knight's Cross of Michael Wittmann showed
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the Waffen SS's famous fighting spirit meant.
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His unit being maintained five Tiger panssarivaunuaan
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when he saw on the road on a hillside of the British ajoneuvokolonnan.
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Wittmann jumped into the chariot and drove toward the columns were moving in all guns blazing.
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He destroyed in a few minutes 25 vehicles.
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Wittmann drove to the village
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where the British Cromwell trolley shot his wagon very close up.
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Wittmann and his crew escaped.
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They were stopped by the British in the attack alone.
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Hitler Jugend participated in Caen city defense
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and rejected a number of breakthrough companies.
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The division commander Fritz Witt already crashed at the beginning of the battle.
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His replacement was Kurt Meyer, founding member of the Leibstandarte
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who had been making wild antics name "Panzer" Meyer.
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Meyer's dwindling unit fought
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and earned their respect and enemies.
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Waffen SS fought bravely
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but no less ruthlessly than in Russia.
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Prisoners of war were killed in cold blood at least twice.
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Das Reich was guilty of even worse offense en route to Normandy.
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It was used on you, because the railways had been destroyed.
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Resistance Operating difficult journey ambushes and destroying bridges.
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Das Reich retaliated with terrifying way Oradour sur Glanen village.
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They took the people together, and burned the houses.
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Then they closed their people to the church and burned too.
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648 French civilians were slaughtered mercilessly.
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Many people think of Oradour prove
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the Waffen SS men were not "just soldiers."
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They claim that the perpetrators of atrocities
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but the French village of the ruins of the second claim.
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Normandy became the second SS armored corps
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but the Germans were oppressed bend.
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Army remnants retreated to the east of the French crack.
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Many Waffen SS officers had left the famous lines.
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"Panzer" Meyer was wounded and remained a prisoner.
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Michael Wittmann in Villers Bocagen hero had fallen.
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Allied supply problems spared the collapse of the Germans.
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The Allied advance was stopped at the beginning of September.
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Waffen SS pulled from the rear of divisions.
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9th and 10th SS armored division were in Arnhem in the Netherlands.
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It caused a disaster to the Allies.
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On 17 September 1944 began a large airborne operation
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the aim of which was to help the troops across the Rhine
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by occupying bridges in the Netherlands.
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The British and the Poles jumped into Arnhem.
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Waffen SS took immediate effect.
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It started to tighten the blockade ring around the paratroopers
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and they were forced to surrender.
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Hitler already prepared a foolhardy attack on the West.
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Greater Attack went to the Ardennes region in Belgium.
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Its aim was to separate the British and the Americans.
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At the head attacked two armored army.
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Repeat commanded by Sepp Dietrich, and it consisted of Waffen SS divisions.
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Attack began December 16, 1944.
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Dietrich's army dominated in the American and sowed panic.
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But in the Ardennes mountain was more difficult in December 1944
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than in May 1940.
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The weather cleared up soon, and allied aircraft reached the atmosphere.
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Difficult conditions slowed down the progression
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and the unit after another came to a halt.
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The Waffen SS appeared again the worst side.
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Fanatical and aggressive Joachim Peiper commanded by Title
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who gets the most and left behind a series of atrocities.
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Peiper's men murdered unarmed civilians.
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The unit faced Malmedy near the fire control battalion
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who thought he was far from the Front.
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SS men destroyed the vehicles Column ends
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so that others remained between them, and did not let anyone escape.
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Many surrendered to the Americans shot no scruples.
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The Waffen SS was forced to answer for this crime.
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Hitler's armies took to the end of December retreat.
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Gambling had failed, and he had to concentrate to the east
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where the Red Army threatened to go to Germany.
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Faithful Waffen SS came to serve as the Head of his country once again.
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The Red Army was preparing at the beginning of 1945 to proceed to Germany.
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Hitler sent Dietrich Hungary
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the power of the Balaton Lake oil fields back.
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Dietrich Department was named the 6th SS panssariarmeijaksi.
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The Waffen SS in its finally independently as Himmler had hoped.
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Germany invaded from the east for the last time in March 1945.
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Dietrich's SS armored army and the 6th Army
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proceeded in mud Russians while making fierce resistance.
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The attack came to a halt after one week.
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Enraged, Hitler ordered the SS men removed from the arm band
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a sign of humiliation.
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Loyalty was a matter of honor Waffen SS, which fought
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Allied driving the Third Reich increasingly under pressure.
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SS other branches of the atrocities began to become public knowledge
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when the extermination camps began to be found.
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Stunned the Allies did not distinguish SS stands apart.
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They are constantly faced the SS fanatical resistance
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but it only postponed the inevitable end.
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6. SS armored army remnants
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could not prevent the Russians from reaching Vienna.
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The last stop was Berlin.
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The Soviets began to attack 16.4.
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and they proceeded a week the city itself.
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Among the defenders was the SS men from France and Latvia.
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Hitler hoped that the Waffen SS save him
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but he already had biases in power.
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The city surrendered to 2.5. two days after Hitler's suicide.
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The Soviet Union was useless to expect no mercy
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so the units surrendered to hasten to the Western Allies.
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Several SS Divisions liked defiant antautumisparaateja.
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SS had done countless crimes against humanity
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and a part of the Waffen SS was guilty of war crimes.
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All the SS men were taken in for questioning.
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Multi tried to masquerade
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but tattooed under your arm the SS ID number revealed them.
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A few of the Waffen SS man paid for his crimes with his life.
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Only a few hands of the Soviets had returned home.
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Malmedy massacre trial became famous.
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Almost all of the officers were prosecuted and found guilty.
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Sepp Dietrich, Peiper's supervisor, the judgment was read first.
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The penalty is life imprisonment, and execution starts immediately.
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Joachim Peiper by the Department of killed prisoners
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was one of six kuolemaantuomitusta.
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Replaced by life imprisonment. Dietrich was released in 1955
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but he ended up in court again.
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He received the 1957 prosecution actions "night of long knives" in 1934.
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He was forced once again to jail but was released after 15 months.
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Time your gold quickly for his and his subordinates' cruel memories.
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We were all the time at the front. We were fighters.
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We did not know what happened behind the front.
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We were just ordinary soldiers!
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West Germany apparently believed them, despite the evidence.
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Waffen SS men were 50 veteran's pension
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on the grounds that they, too, had to defend their country.
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Waffen SS served in were also given permission to establish an association
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which is still in operation.
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Men like Degrellen Leon's fate was quite different.
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He was considered a traitor in Belgium
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and he lived the rest of his life in Spain.
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Sepp Dietrich, Hitler's the epitome of a warrior
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died in April 1966.
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He received the Meritorious agree to the soldier's dignity funeral.
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Dietrich and the Waffen SS in combat earned an unsurpassed reputation.
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They continued to fight a hopeless situation
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and that is why the enemy honored them, and the men admired warriors.
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But they became brainwashed evil empire käsikassaroita.
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Atrocities dipped forever their reputation as soldiers.
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