[Wadson]

1940, Hitler gave permission for the first non-German Waffen-SS formation and by the end of the war, twenty five of the thirty eight Waffen-SS division were formed from foreign volunteers or conscripts, or around 60% of Waffen-SS members were non-German.

"German racialism meant re-discovering the creative values of their own race, re-discovering their culture. It was a search for excellence, a noble ideal. National Socialist racialism was not against the other races, it was for its own race. It aimed at defending and improving its race, and wished that all other races did the same for themselves."

Waffen SS General Leon Degrelle - Epic: The Story of the Waffen SS (Lecture given in 1982). Reprinted in The Journal of Historical Review, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 441-468.
http://vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/3/4/Degrelle441-468.html

[lagunasun]

hadn't seen this before...
I've been enlightened to some degree, thanks for the post.

[LadyCPlum]

Leon Degrelle....the Belgian Quisling.....

[Arkoquisa]

Don't forget about the Latin American allies of Germany. Mexico was the main oil supplier, largest oil producing nation in the world at the time, from 1936-1942. Somewhere in the area of 22 Mexicans were in the Waffen SS with Division Azul, the Spanish division. Spain had around 50,000(numbers vary from source to source) volunteers join the German army. In addition to Mexicans there were Chileans, Cubans, Argentinians (Large numbers joined the Italian armed forces), and a couple Hondurans and Guatemalans. Mexico had many political parallels to Germany at the time, had many 'personal' reasons to side with Germany over the US, and had a large substantial German population that had emigrated/integrated in the century leading up to WW2. The German army, that today is embodied as the definition of racism, was one the most ethnically/ racially diverse forces the world had ever seen. There could be some debate to this, but we must remember that the people who joined were volunteer and not conscripted. One note though is that the British forces of the SS were selected from POW camps and not fully dedicated as many of the other foreign forces and very low in their numbers. They spent most of their time chasing German girls and when time came to go to the front in 1945 many took off their uniform and walked across the line. They did have to help clean up after Dresden. One last note, I have read, very little and hard to document, that many American Indian tribes were in support for Germany. The idea of nationalism, that being the nation being for those who are indigenous to the land, appealed greatly to many of the tribes. I have not found any US born native americans who were in the German armed forces.

Quite funny to realize that the economic boom of the 30's, the fall of Poland, the low countries, France, and the initial Blitz of the Ostfront was, in all reality, fueled by Mexico.

[reubthadude]

VERY interesting!

[AngryLepercon]

I have this flag hanging on the side of my gun safe at the house.

The SS has always been interesting to me.

[AmericanIllusions]

Originally Posted by AngryLepercon ↗

I have this flag hanging on the side of my gun safe at the house.

The SS has always been interesting to me.

Yea there's definitely something fascinating or mystical about the Nazis and I see stuff at gun & knife shows here in MI too. The way they were portrayed is just about completely false. I don't buy the 6 million lie either.

[LadyCPlum]

Oh don't fucking start that shit up again

[AngryLepercon]

Can't we all just get along.....

[jeffro742]

Ya know, the nazis really screwed up the whole swastika symbol for everyone. For hundreds of years prior, the swastika was a symbol of good fortune, the nazi party used it, and now its only associated with them. What a bunch of dicks