with all respects moloch yes a lot was but not all of them they were very loyalWell, perhaps I should have pointed out WHO I think gets a wrong picture of what happened back then.
For the most, I'm worrying about people that are not able or not willing to reflect the things they see on TV. Of course, an educated mind usually will take the time to do so and knows enough about this war to build its own opinion.
I'm well aware of the fact that there were true heroes even among the ranks of the Wehrmacht; Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld, for example, was a medic in the 275th German Infantry Div. during the battle for the Hürtgenwald. He died when trying to save a wounded American infantryman from a mine field.
But again, I have to emphasize that the Wehrmacht and the SS have been two completely different institutions. The Wehrmacht existed since the foundation of the German Kaiserreich in 1871 (and to some extent before that, because it consisted of the united armed forces of the German Kingdoms that existed before and within the Kaiserreich). The Wehrmacht had an honorable history to build on, those serving in the Wehrmacht were trained by officers who were there long before Hitler. The Waffen-SS, on the other hand, was created by Hitler and the NSDAP with the intent to have armed forces at hand that were not included in the normal military command structure. They were the ones that committed most of the crimes, they WERE the bad guys.
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