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\"real\" SS
Posted by:
SuperKraut
()
Date: March 02, 2001 05:06PM
<HTML>The Allgemeine SS, which I was discretely calling the \"real\" SS, was much more than just the camp guards. It was also the whole police apparatus including the GESTAPO and it served a bunch of party functions. I do not want to get into a long discussion about the various branches of the SS, but Himmler was running a state within a state. In 1940, the Waffen SS was still very much a part of the Allgemeine SS, but as it grew into an elite parallel party army, it became more and more a real military organization. By 1943 it was recruiting the cream of the crop and getting the best weapons, which denied the Wehrmacht both a considerable number of top recruits and the most modern weapons.
It was not unusual for a Wehrmacht general to be intimidated by a GESTAPO Obersturmbannführer (Lt. colonel).
Regards,
SuperKraut</HTML>
It was not unusual for a Wehrmacht general to be intimidated by a GESTAPO Obersturmbannführer (Lt. colonel).
Regards,
SuperKraut</HTML>
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\"real\" SS | SuperKraut | 03/02/2001 05:06PM |
\"real\" SS | SuperKraut | 03/02/2001 05:08PM |
RE: what was the real SS then | FAlmeida | 03/02/2001 09:35PM |
RE: Rank comparisons... | Michael Lowrey | 02/27/2001 06:06PM |
Thanks Rainer & Michael... | Jeff | 02/27/2001 10:43PM |
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