General Discussions
This is the place to discuss general issues related to the U-boat war or the war at sea in WWII.
RE: Yugoslavians in U-Boot Waffe
Posted by:
Michael Lowrey
()
Date: December 04, 2000 04:17PM
<HTML>Craig,
\"Germanness\" was determined by ethnicity and not location of birth, which explains why certain officers were allowed to serve that were born in Eastern Europe. A non-ethnic German obtaining German citizenship would be very difficult if not impossible. Even to this day, it is not particularly easy.
Interestingly, the whole topic of ethnic/physical standards in Nazi Germany undergoes a slow transformation as the war progresses; manpower shortages and total war have a way of doing that. The Waffen SS had, for example, a Bosnian Muslim division...</HTML>
\"Germanness\" was determined by ethnicity and not location of birth, which explains why certain officers were allowed to serve that were born in Eastern Europe. A non-ethnic German obtaining German citizenship would be very difficult if not impossible. Even to this day, it is not particularly easy.
Interestingly, the whole topic of ethnic/physical standards in Nazi Germany undergoes a slow transformation as the war progresses; manpower shortages and total war have a way of doing that. The Waffen SS had, for example, a Bosnian Muslim division...</HTML>
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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Yugoslavians in U-Boot Waffe | Tono | 12/03/2000 07:09PM |
RE: Yugoslavians in U-Boot Waffe | Craig McLean | 12/04/2000 02:55PM |
RE: Yugoslavians in U-Boot Waffe | Michael Lowrey | 12/04/2000 04:17PM |
RE: Yugoslavians in U-Boot Waffe | Rich Mickle | 12/04/2000 08:49PM |
RE: Yugoslavians in U-Boot Waffe | Fin Bonset | 12/05/2000 02:33PM |