I fear that I don't have the courage to be a resister.
Perhaps you could be a transistor, or a diode instead?I fear that I don't have the courage to be a resister.
Perhaps you could be a transistor, or a diode instead?I fear that I don't have the courage to be a resister.
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I can find them, but they are quite frowned upon among polite people.I dare say if i was a frenchman or a norwegian living in occupied europe at that time , and the nazis were recruiting non german men into the SS, which they did in real life, i would have seriously given it some thoughts about joining up, considering the bleak economic situation europe was in during the war.
I was going to comment on this, but I can't find the appropriate words.
I can find them, but they are quite frowned upon among polite people.I dare say if i was a frenchman or a norwegian living in occupied europe at that time , and the nazis were recruiting non german men into the SS, which they did in real life, i would have seriously given it some thoughts about joining up, considering the bleak economic situation europe was in during the war.
I was going to comment on this, but I can't find the appropriate words.
Perhaps you could be a transistor, or a diode instead?I fear that I don't have the courage to be a resister.
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I fail to see the relevance of that. Since they were fighting a losing battle, the Waffen-SS recruited people from different countries into their "foreign" divisions to keep their number up against the Allies. It doesn't excuse people joining them, either for a lust of power, setting old scores, or sheer sadism.FYI the Nazis did recruit from a wide range of people. They recruited captured Russians into the German organized Russian Liberation Army who were anti Communist and captured Indians into the Indische Legion who were anti British and Bosnians into the Nazi 13th SS "Handzar" Division who were anti Serb.
One thing is to suffer under the rule of Nazis for fear of your life. Not everybody is cut to be a Resistance fighter, and sad to say, most people would bow their head and just try to stay alive. I can understand that. I don't have the arrogance to say I know what I would have done. I hope I would have been able to stand up and fight, but since I never found myself in that predicament, I simply don't know.Well i did write what i would have done if i had lived in nazi occupied europe. I did not lie. i wrote the truth.
I fail to see the relevance of that. Since they were fighting a losing battle, the Waffen-SS recruited people from different countries into their "foreign" divisions to keep their number up against the Allies. It doesn't excuse people joining them, either for a lust of power, setting old scores, or sheer sadism.FYI the Nazis did recruit from a wide range of people. They recruited captured Russians into the German organized Russian Liberation Army who were anti Communist and captured Indians into the Indische Legion who were anti British and Bosnians into the Nazi 13th SS "Handzar" Division who were anti Serb.
One thing is to suffer under the rule of Nazis for fear of your life. Not everybody is cut to be a Resistance fighter, and sad to say, most people would bow their head and just try to stay alive. I can understand that. I don't have the arrogance to say I know what I would have done. I hope I would have been able to stand up and fight, but since I never found myself in that predicament, I simply don't know.Well i did write what i would have done if i had lived in nazi occupied europe. I did not lie. i wrote the truth.
But actively joining them or serve under them as a collaborationist against your own countrymen... it takes a special kind of evil to do that.
No. Unlike the Wehrmacht, which was simply the German regular army, the SS were a criminal organization whose only purpose was to terrorize and oppress the population of Germany and other occupied countries. They were founded on principles of racial superiority and hate. There is nothing redeemable about them (except maybe the Hugo Boss uniforms: they were quite snazzy). Joining them would be to embrace their ideology, and their ideology was supremely and undilutedly evil.i will not call it evil for joining up. It will be evil if i killed civilians.
I don't think you have to lecture an Italian citizen about the origin of Fascism.Go and read about Fascist Philosophy.
If any kind of nazi ideology appeals to you, in any time, in any place, you are no better than them. And if you were living in occupied Europe during WWII and you actively belonged to a Nazi organization, Allied soldiers and Resistance fighters waging their war against invasion, oppression, and persecution would have been fully justified to have you shot.But if i was a christian european living in occupied europe during WWII, the international ideology behind nazism will be very tempting to me.
No. Unlike the Wehrmacht, which was simply the German regular army, the SS were a criminal organization whose only purpose was to terrorize and oppress the population of Germany and other occupied countries. They were founded on principles of racial superiority and hate. There is nothing redeemable about them (except maybe the Hugo Boss uniforms: they were quite snazzy). Joining them would be to embrace their ideology, and their ideology was supremely and undilutedly evil.i will not call it evil for joining up. It will be evil if i killed civilians.
I dare say if i was a frenchman or a norwegian living in occupied europe at that time , and the nazis were recruiting non german men into the SS, which they did in real life, i would have seriously given it some thoughts about joining up, considering the bleak economic situation europe was in during the war.
I dare say if i was a frenchman or a norwegian living in occupied europe at that time , and the nazis were recruiting non german men into the SS, which they did in real life, i would have seriously given it some thoughts about joining up, considering the bleak economic situation europe was in during the war.
And then you would have been punished in a potentially cruel way in 1944 during the Epuration. You would certainly have died wearing a cool uniform. Isn't that great![]()
Many citizens in occupied europe had a lousy economic situation going on and many did join the nazis because of that. Some joined because they believed in the nazi ideology and some joined for a paycheck. i am the paycheck type.
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