Also recently Nikolaus Schiffer, 74, a retired baker born in Philadelphia, lost his U.S citizenship for being a concentration camp guard during WWII, Americans in the German forces were definitely more common than we think, again unfortunately isn't studied enough. The book stated is called, "Unknown Foreign Volunteers of the Waffen SS: Soldiers from the Darkest Corners of Himmler's Military Empire" by Cambridge River and published by Charles Martel Comms. Unfortunately, i can't find it for sale anywhere, but have a dig around if you can.
I met frauline nien. No no no no no not girl no nick name underground 102 yr of age she never wrote a book but she has the best stories of her her heroic battles missions I mean her team of four fought for five years with one loss, out in black forest in winter, in summer they would did a 12 foot deep very large bunker shure it with nice birth walls floor celling, she told me of a tunnel they dug for many meters for a exsast for smoke they made thete own coals the hide was never used in summer it was a winter excape. The smoke was so fine by time it came out the end it was almost invisible. They used a combination of wirers cans with water every five feet absorbed most of the smoke smell rest smelled like battle field. Increasable story.
Would be kinda weird if you chased after some that had been in SS when you imported others and gave them well-paid jobs. Not only U.S did this. However, there was a difference between the waffen and the allemengie SS
I have been researching American born Waffen SS volunteers for years now and have been working on a book for about the same time. I have the records for around 60 men so far from all over the US. I have also produced a lot of fantasy American Free Corps insignia. Thank you for bringing more light to this fascinating subject.
I knew someone who joined the Condor Legion and he fought in Spain in 1936. He later returned to the United States and joined the U.S. Army and served in WW2 with the army. His name is Harry Carey. He passed away around ten years ago.
What's ironic is there was also the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, that fought in Spain as well, but on the Communist side. Wouldn't it be beautiful if Americans could put aside their political opinions for 5 minutes and appreciate the country we share?
@@scottkrafft6830 Well, most of these comments are comming from Russia, not America. People claiming to be American, but having RUclips sock puppet accounts to troll around.
@@gary6576 What if they say the same about you? You're all tough behind a keyboard but they'd see you on the battlefield. Would you meet the challenge?
I read an article years about 2 Irish men who served in the SS. Frank Springer and James Brady. They both went right thru the war till the battle of Berlin in April 1945. Both survived. At least 4 Englishmen also fought in the SS. I read 8 Icelanders served in the SS as did a fellow from the Faroe Islands.
dude, do you have schizophrenia? are you paranoid? Why do you have a crossed out Soviet coat of arms on your avatar if the Soviet Union has long been gone. The USSR collapsed, it doesn’t exist, why does something that doesn’t exist continue to anger you so much?
@@baroukhbenavrahameven if he meant communism, today it simply does not exist in its original form, communism no longer poses a threat to the world, there is no communism in China, there is a mixed capitalist regime under communist masks and flags
Agreed, but to bad we don't learn from it. It's looking to me like the world is headed down a dark path again and with technology nowadays I can't imagine what the world will look like after another world War, if the world is still here after it
@@maxn.7234 Heard of The Maisy Battery? 2 miles from Omaha beach. It fired uninterrupted on Omaha and Utah for 3 days. The Rangers finally took it out. With stiff resistance. American engineers literally buried the entire battery. Major intelligence gaffe/cover-up.
Those who wanted to fight communism and were not German joined the SS as volunteers and there were tens of thousands of them. But these were Americans you could argue...true but even Patton at the end of the war said "we fought the wrong enemy!". And shortly afterwards he lost his life due to a strange car accident after ten days of agony...
Russia knows what it wants. World domination .And she is laying her plans accordingly. We, on the other hand, and England, and france to a lesser extent. don't know what we want and get less than nothing as the result. Let's keep our boots polished bayonets sharpened,and present a picture of force and strength to the Russians. This is the only language that they understand and respect. If you fail to do this , then I would like to say that we have had a victory over the Germans, and have disarmed them,but we have lost the war. -Patton America has been penetrated by Russian spies. The American mass media, politics, education and business have been "influenced" by Russian agents. There are those who are so damaged within themselves, that they seek the destruction of their own country. And so, the problem of confronting Russia's war preparations entails a larger problem. It is a problem we cannot deal with. It is the problem of a large and emotionally committed fifth column of deluded individuals. Poisonous ideas have wormed their way into our system, so that the enemy's ideology has become the catechism of the coming generation.
Americans have been fighting the wrong enemy since the European financial ruling class/British Crown installed their puppet George Washington. Oh I'm sorry Americans, did I just destroy another grand illusion of yours, meaning, you are still a colony of the Crown!
My grandfather was one of those volunteers. My gramps faced legal prosecution after returning to America. I’m not sure how he was able to avoid a conviction, I don’t quite recall but I’m sure it had something to do with hiring a good lawyer. Anyways, he was a brave man and I’m glad to have spent a lot of time with him growing up and hearing his stories and learning a ton about combat from him, and my Naval Special Operations and Warfare Vietnam veteran father. May they both Rest In Peace. I’m stoked that they both passed a ton of their military fighting skills down to me. From survival escape resistance and evasion training to long distance shooting and advanced camouflage techniques to room clearing, the “rolling T” and close quarters combat and everything in between. Both my grandfather and my father drilled hours of those exercises into me when I was a youngster and a teenager, and I am super grateful for that. I miss both of them dearly. *Anyways I wish anyone who may read this a blessed day. Aloha A’Hui Hou.
I know about US volunteers, and I know about Danish volunteers. But I had no idea that American born volunteers actually lived in Denmark at the time, even though a lot of the names were of Danish origin. Learn something new every day, I will definitely look more into it. Thanks for opening another exciting rabbit hole 👍 Cheers from Denmark.
I was going to say, there was a surprising amount of Americans living in Denmark of all places, that's not meant as a dig at the Danes or anything, either.
My grandfather and his three brothers crossed the athantinc to join the The Blue Division. Out of 4 brother my grandfather and two brothers came back they where us born Mexicans of Spanish descent I recall that he used to say that there where many Latin american volunteers in different branches somon of German descent and some not.
It was common.. my great uncle got the call to return to fatherland in 40, lots of people who left Germany got the letter wanting them for the war effort..he got captured in Normandy.. came back home and joined US and fought in Korea,married, no children, retired from coal mining, died in 96..
@@Oscylot88 well, they had to go somewhere. And no, not a Zyclon B shower…. America welcomes ALL with open arms, that’s what we are. Make fun of it all you want, if you were in their situation, you’d be glad America exists…. Edit-LEGALLY* come here. So there’s no confusion, this mass illegal alien migration invasion really pisses me off…. They literally get treated better than, and have more handed to them, than the ones who come here legally!!! NO!!!! Not cool…
Wiking is pronounced Viking, which is exactly where the unit derived its name. The unit originally being made up from Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Icelandic volunteers as well as Dutch and Flemish. Very interesting subject none the less.
In the tv show Band of Brothers in one of the first episodes easy company pass's a group of SS prisoners and one E-Comp soldiers starts verbally mocking them and one of the SS soldiers answers him speaking English with American accent and hes like dude were you from etc same city as the mocking American it turns out
Everyone who I was honored to have been able to get to talk to and known for a good amount of people who fought for the Germans and they were able to survive the war somehow made it to America after the war and started families here in Pennsylvania. Many of them didn't know or agree with the views of the. NSDAP but instead fought for the whole premise that communism was coming to get them and their families and lands and fought for the sole reason that they were not going to live under the Hammer and Cycle if they could do anything about it in that moment in history. As we know, the Red menace reared its ugly head and spread like that plague and enveloped half of the European continent. Many fled the thing they could and came to America and that's the end of the historic story from where I am from. Great afternoon and God bless you all.
@@gwyn2 I will agree with you on that one exactly 💯% true and correct. Would have been a long a drug out war and would have been a good hard drive for the British Empire and the American troops and we would have been a lot more casualties and deaths if they didn't have to keep 3 million troops on the Oster Front, (Eastern).
The whole anti-Communism idea is so stupid. The National Socialists were allied with the Communists while they assaulted most of Europe before Barbarossa. I don't think the average ignorant spouting that myth is aware of how socialist and revolutionary National Socialism actually was, especially when you consider modern Americans labelling Social Liberalism and Social Democracy as "litterally Communism". I'm not an expert on the American side, but the people from my country who volunteered often rationalise it post-war with anti-Communism, while you can find anti-Semitic and National Socialist articles etc. written by the exact same people in the 1940s, so it wouldn't surprise me if the Americans are also just hiding behind anti-Communism because it was more socially acceptable.
@@maxn.7234 Yet Germany helped the Soviet Union take parts of Poland and did nothing to help the Baltic and Finland in 1939 and 1940. They only broke the alliance and attacked the Communists when it was opportune for their own goals.
@@scottkrafft6830 Lots of Poles were in the Wehrmacht and SS, they just didn't have an ethnic Polish unit because they would probably be considered German. But I agree that the common trope of the Waffen-SS being a highly diverse organisation is pretty stupid.
The British and Soviet armies were just as diverse, if not more so. And the same could be said of the US given the many ethnic backgrounds of Americans.
@@MegrelMamba Along with the Japanese, Turks were one of the few non-Aryan races that were considered to be partly superior or honorary Aryans. Hell, there was even a Chinese Wehrmacht officer.
Thank you for shedding light on Lost aspects of history. One thing I noticed that was kind of shocking is the overwhelming majority of these foreign volunteers died in combat. It does not sound as though many of them made it through the war. Therefore not many were interviewed very unfortunate because it would have been great to see what was going through their mind and as an American what it was actually like on the other side.
A lot of people don't know that the US received so much German immigration in the 1800s that the German ethnic population caught up and matched our British ethnic population. That, coupled with a rising threat of Communism in the 30s (taking advantage of the Depression) and it makes sense a lot of Americans did this. Accepting so many German immigrants into the US really affected our British roots, but what is done is done. At least we got some good engineering minds out of it.
@@gary6576 I wasn't advocating for that, just explaining that was a reaction to the trend in the 30s. There was a trend of Fascism as well, as well all know too.
Over 90% of Americans voted against joining the war. Of course some Americans harboured sentiments for an enemy they had no interest in fighting. We joined the war because international bankers had as strong a hold of our leaders then as they do now, not because American citizens voted to.
Duh, ‘international bankers’ had nothing to do with it. Did international bankers make Hitler invade most of his neighbors? Did international bankers make Japan bomb Pearl Harbor? Did international bankers make Germany declare war on the US? War is extremely disruptive of international trade, it is the last thing international bankers would want. This doesn’t make any sense - it’s pure conspiracy theory.
@PalmBeachPeloponneseanfrom what I’ve heard/learned I believe we knew that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor and we let it happen so we could go to war
My great grandmothers father (mothers side) went back and fought for the Germans. Died in Stalingrad. Had another family and everything. He was an immigrate only here for a few months before heading back.
Forgotten and deliberately overlooked by history is the fact that more Dutch citizens fought with the SS in their own Division, than fought for the Allies.
@@angelicsoulz - Thank you for reading my post, but forgotten is an act of neglect. Deliberately overlooked implies a conscious decision to avoid mentioning something, so it has still been forgotten by some, deliberately overlooked by others.
Regarding the US gov and education systems not touching the subject, I see it as a mixture of the government pursuing its own interests against the ideals and desires of the people (Americans were vast majority anti-war, especially with Germany, until Pearl Harbor), not wanting to associate America during this period with the NSDAP in any way (America is often demonized throughout its history aside from the world wars), and potential public support/sympathies with the NSDAP and it’s ideals in the current state of the nation.
I don't agree with everything the first guy said, but Monarchist Nice and wasn't wrong Europe was destroyed and Christianity went into decline. Great and interesting, keep up the great work. Peace ✌🏻
I got chills listening to him. He literally predicted the future. Europe is dying while both russia and america are speeding it up. Then theres the 3rd world hating europe for their colonial past. ( im from a colonised country btw but no hate ).
I had a brother who was a child during WW-2. He had told me that there were some people in German communities in SE Minnesota that would fly the flag of the Third Reich. Also spoke to German American sailor from the war, when he returned home to his ethnic German community faced some criticism for fighting against "Good German Boys".
Funny you should bring this up, my grandpa was born and raised in Waseca, Minnesota and his mom was German..he joined the US army, was sent over on D-Day in the 101st Airborne (it paid more than regular infantry) and one thing his mom told him was not to kill Hitler because he made Germany great again lol She passed away from natural causes while he was over there. He got shot in the leg somewhere along the way and received shrapnel in his torso while he was in Bastogne. He also told me a story of him and some other guys stumbling upon a barn where some Germans were eating in the morning, they blocked the back exit and him and the other guys snuck in the front and mowed them all down with “Tommy guns” - not sure how true this was because he didn’t share this until he was in his 80s but repeated this story non stop when talking about his war experience at the bar when people noticed his 101st Airborne jacket and hat and thank him for his service.
@@jasoninthehood9726I don't mean to disrespect your grandfather's legacy. However, imagine if German soldiers had done this and, after the war, shared this story freely and with pride. Just a thought.
In a way it makes sense. For those who had more loyalty to their ethnic homeland or a sense of belonging. And if prior to American entry into the war in 1941 there had been large amounts of people who attended the rally in New York, it makes sense some of those people felt like joining the Germans. History can sometimes have awkward moments
I’m surprised there weren’t thousands of German-American volunteers considering it is one of the most common ancestries among European descended Americans.
But lots of them came back in the 18th and 19th century and would have virtually no connection to Germany by 1939. Just as I've never even been to the UK or Ireland despite that being my background.
98% of my heritage are Germans who came to America in the 19th century. Proud of my Grandfather's service in the US 3rd Army during the war and thankful that my family, at least those in the US, were on the right side of history.
I have a German surname. My grandfather’s ship sank a u-boat that turned out to have a distant relative on it (he survived and came to a reunion in the early 2000s). But I’m half Irish and have always identified with my Irish heritage.
@@cambs0181 I don’t think that’s how it worked for me. Even when I was a kid I felt closer to my Irish heritage than I did with my German or French. I just kinda figured that since my other heritage is more diluted the Irish blood is just stronger! 😜
I'm from a southern brazilian city, that was a german colony in 19th century but has german culture to this day (even a oktoberfest), my self included, i'm from german descent. In the ww2 period Nazism was strong here, in a neighborhood city there was even a nazy party, so a new garrison of military was established to contain facism. Some people of the region fought on bought sides of the war, because many of them was born in germany or was sons of german colonizers. The brother of my great-grandfather died in the war fighting for germany... he lived here and went back when the war started. The most unbelievable story was that in a family, one member fought for germany and the other in the Brazilian Army, both came back and lived a normal life afterwards. The city is Blumenau state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Feel free to ask questions Cobras Fumantes Eterna é Sua Vitória!🚬🐍
It's virtually irrelevant due to how insignificant the number of Americans serving for Germany. It's such a small and minute detail you probably would not even learn about it in a high level University history course.
Lord Rothschild was also outed as a Kremlin rat. and This… America has been penetrated by Russian spies. The American mass media, politics, education and business have been "influenced" by Russian agents. There are those who are so damaged within themselves, that they seek the destruction of their own country. And so, the problem of confronting Russia's war preparations entails a larger problem. It is a problem we cannot deal with. It is the problem of a large and emotionally committed fifth column of deluded individuals. Poisonous ideas have wormed their way into our system, so that the enemy's ideology has become the catechism of the coming generation.
Globalism, is my guess. The mustache man must of been over the target hence the relentless slander against his name. Rose Germany up from a financially crippled nation after ww1 and rose to a super power without the need of a central banking mafia. Makes you wonder doesn’t it?
My grandfather was in 1st division going ashore during D-day. As I was growing up, hearing his WW2 stories, he did mention BRIEFLY that this was known to happen. His unit came across one such person in France. An american born wearing a German uniform fighting in the Weirmacht ranks. He did not talk about it at length. They discovered this while the front was moving, and they as grunts did not have the time to sort out details of this.
Amazing to see how the fight Hitler brought to Europe resonated with so many Europeans and even non-Europeans. Many people signed up to help. Very noble and very telling of the absolute lies just accepted about the war.
Europe was the best continent on earth by far with the best technology, best quality of life; and best culture. Now it is sinking and being overrun by the godless communist destruction that secular atheism always brings with it. God help us all.
It’s easy to judge people from the past. We know how the story ends. We should be humble in knowing that future generations will have the same power in judging us.
I remember hearing a story from a guy once. Where a Japanese man that spoke perfect English with no accent approached him ready to surrender his platoon. They actually had quite a civil conversation and even compared notes. The Japanese man drove through his town several times back when he was a American citizen. They didn't far from one another. He returned to Japan when the war broke out.
When I was a kid, I remember, I didn’t even think of this possibility until I saw band of brothers. But that was a little different. Then alone, man, or grown older men, deciding to go fight for that cause.
It should also be noted that the Nazis were greatly inspired by the United States in some of their tactics and goals. Hitler himself mentioned this and many Nazis saw similarities to the U.S. in their territorial expansion-Lebrenstraum and Manifest Destiny-and the eradication of the native population-Slavs and Native Americans. Hitler himself seemed pretty envious of how the U.S. was able to expand across the continent. Along with this there was also the use of racial laws (Jim Crow) and popularity of eugenics in early 20th Century America in maintaining social order. So it doesn’t really surprise me to think that Americans would volunteer to fight for Germany, given that the Nazis took some inspiration from the United States, something that I don’t really see many people talk about.
There was 54 British who joined the British Free Corps. I understand that the US education system is a little backward, but I am sure you can understand that isn't tens of thousands.
One has to know that in the late 19th Century through the early to mid 20th century, German surnames outnumbered many English surnames. These were first generation Germans who grew up speaking German and being taught that Germans were superior to other Americans of non-Germanic roots. If you were a German-American visiting relatives at the outbreak of WW2, you would very likely be conscripted into the Wehrmacht notwithstanding being an "American".
Tambien aparte del contexto historico hay q tener en cuenta que los años 40s, no son los actuales, los voluntarios estadiunidenses no tenian porque saber lo que hoy todos conocemos de aquel periodo. Saludos desde Avellaneda Argentina
@@OneOfThoseTypesLook at all these online SS officers exposing themselves as pieces of shit 😂. Bet you not a single one would go out in public waving around a Swastika
excellent presentation and narration. And as they say the victors write the history books, so of course the U.S. never teaches about this in schools because it would make it appear that there were American born people who felt a tie or loyalty to Germany rather than to the U.S. during this time. It would be perceived as politically incorrect to teach the full historical facts, but that means that history is not fully explored. As such, history is only seen through the lens of one narrative and that's not history at all. It's a truncated version of it. It makes perfect sense with so many German immigrants to the U.S. that their ties and feelings continued to resonate for them, as they hadn't been fully assimilated into the so-called American "melting pot". This type of thing is far more common than we know and will most likely repeat in the future.
Why would they spend any time on this in school? It’s a niche topic at best. With all that needs to be taught, and limited time available, I can’t see the value of spending time talking about some unknown, but certainly small number of Americans who may have fought for Nazi Germany. It has nothing to do with “political correctness” or “the winners writing history”. It’s a matter of time vs significance.
I mean he still hated the Nazis and wanted to get rid of them. About the only thing they had in common was him being anti Semitic And him admiring a lot of their WW1 commanders and Rommel who wasn't much of a Nazi. It's just that he realized the Soviet's were a massive problem
Wisconsin has some of the largest german immigrant populations per capita. Many felt they needed to serve their home land. Along with the fact that they were ousted and attacked by their own during ww1 and ww2. There’s actually some publication on why prohibition succeeded by a smear campaign against German beer makers in Wi by saying they were WW1 German sympathizers. So many may have felt as outcasts in WW2 abd decided to defact
😢 This man was correct 💯% that they (America) backing Stalin was the end of a couple/three generations and was the end of half of the European continent and its nations just as the Pierre had said in 41'
I’ve always been interested in foreign volunteers, especially ones from allied nations (or nations that joined the allies later) such the BFC. I didn’t know much about the US volunteers other than Volksdeutsche.
Damn I would love to see a Band of Brothers style show about guys joining up with the German armed forces and their reasons/motivations for doing so. Will probably never happen though. Far too touchy subject for any major network/studio to get behind it. Fascinating.
The reason the US government doesn’t really investigated this, is probably due to the fact that most joined the German army (Wehrmacht or SS) well before the official declaration of war in December 1941. So it wouldn’t be high treason, they would just lose their American citizenship (Section 401(c) of the Nationality Act of 1940) unless they didn’t had or acquired the German citizenship. It was well understood that once enlisted, they probably couldn’t say “Hey man, I just found out the US declared war on Germany so I’m gonna head out’. What would they gain by investigating if you can’t impose a sentence? For individual warcrimes there already was a judicial body in place after the war. Immigrants or their offspring remigrating back to country of origin isn’t exactly worth investigating for a government.
Also recently Nikolaus Schiffer, 74, a retired baker born in Philadelphia, lost his U.S citizenship for being a concentration camp guard during WWII, Americans in the German forces were definitely more common than we think, again unfortunately isn't studied enough.
The book stated is called, "Unknown Foreign Volunteers of the Waffen SS: Soldiers from the Darkest Corners of Himmler's Military Empire" by Cambridge River and published by Charles Martel Comms. Unfortunately, i can't find it for sale anywhere, but have a dig around if you can.
I met frauline nien. No no no no no not girl no nick name underground 102 yr of age she never wrote a book but she has the best stories of her her heroic battles missions I mean her team of four fought for five years with one loss, out in black forest in winter, in summer they would did a 12 foot deep very large bunker shure it with nice birth walls floor celling, she told me of a tunnel they dug for many meters for a exsast for smoke they made thete own coals the hide was never used in summer it was a winter excape. The smoke was so fine by time it came out the end it was almost invisible. They used a combination of wirers cans with water every five feet absorbed most of the smoke smell rest smelled like battle field. Increasable story.
Amazing 😮
Would be kinda weird if you chased after some that had been in SS when you imported others and gave them well-paid jobs. Not only U.S did this. However, there was a difference between the waffen and the allemengie SS
Surely anyone who served in ww2 would have to be at least mid 90s.
@@Engineer1897 recently we meant like the past 15 or 10 years or so, you get the Gist.
I have been researching American born Waffen SS volunteers for years now and have been working on a book for about the same time. I have the records for around 60 men so far from all over the US. I have also produced a lot of fantasy American Free Corps insignia. Thank you for bringing more light to this fascinating subject.
Good luck on your book! Sounds like it’ll be very interesting
I'd VERY much love to read a copy! Please do continue your research, good luck!
I would absolutely buy that book
@@TheEmmersonBigginsooh look another maga nazi
Cant wait for the book!
I knew someone who joined the Condor Legion and he fought in Spain in 1936.
He later returned to the United States and joined the U.S. Army and served in WW2 with the army.
His name is Harry Carey.
He passed away around ten years ago.
Shame he didn't die sooner
What's ironic is there was also the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, that fought in Spain as well, but on the Communist side.
Wouldn't it be beautiful if Americans could put aside their political opinions for 5 minutes and appreciate the country we share?
@@scottkrafft6830 Well, most of these comments are comming from Russia, not America. People claiming to be American, but having RUclips sock puppet accounts to troll around.
@@scottkrafft6830facists can stay out I don't care if they were born here
@@gary6576 What if they say the same about you?
You're all tough behind a keyboard but they'd see you on the battlefield. Would you meet the challenge?
I read an article years about 2 Irish men who served in the SS. Frank Springer and James Brady. They both went right thru the war till the battle of Berlin in April 1945. Both survived. At least 4 Englishmen also fought in the SS. I read 8 Icelanders served in the SS as did a fellow from the Faroe Islands.
dude, do you have schizophrenia? are you paranoid? Why do you have a crossed out Soviet coat of arms on your avatar if the Soviet Union has long been gone. The USSR collapsed, it doesn’t exist, why does something that doesn’t exist continue to anger you so much?
@@Kecisverlindara Same with n.azi signs?
@@baroukhbenavrahamNo
@@baroukhbenavrahameven if he meant communism, today it simply does not exist in its original form, communism no longer poses a threat to the world, there is no communism in China, there is a mixed capitalist regime under communist masks and flags
Watch "The Irishmen who fought in the Waffen SS" on youtube, great documentary..
79 years later we will learn new stuff everyday, it’s incredible
They were also Muslim units.
Because the true history of WW2 has been suppressed.
Agreed, but to bad we don't learn from it. It's looking to me like the world is headed down a dark path again and with technology nowadays I can't imagine what the world will look like after another world War, if the world is still here after it
@@maxn.7234
Heard of The Maisy Battery?
2 miles from Omaha beach.
It fired uninterrupted on Omaha and Utah for 3 days. The Rangers finally took it out. With stiff resistance.
American engineers literally buried the entire battery.
Major intelligence gaffe/cover-up.
@@richardsabinii6309
WWIV will be fought with.
Rocks and sharp sticks. 😅
Those who wanted to fight communism and were not German joined the SS as volunteers and there were tens of thousands of them. But these were Americans you could argue...true but even Patton at the end of the war said "we fought the wrong enemy!". And shortly afterwards he lost his life due to a strange car accident after ten days of agony...
This vid is because a new release on the bund
Russia knows what it wants. World domination .And she is laying her plans
accordingly. We, on the other hand, and England, and france to a lesser extent. don't know what we want and get less than nothing as the result.
Let's keep our boots polished bayonets sharpened,and present a picture
of force and strength to the Russians. This is the only language that they understand and respect. If you fail to do this , then I would like to say that we have had a victory over the Germans, and have disarmed them,but we have lost the war.
-Patton
America has been penetrated by Russian spies. The American mass media, politics, education and business have been "influenced" by Russian agents. There are those who are so damaged within themselves, that they seek the destruction of their own country. And so, the problem of confronting Russia's war preparations entails a larger problem. It is a problem we cannot deal with. It is the problem of a large and emotionally committed fifth column of deluded individuals. Poisonous ideas have wormed their way into our system, so that the enemy's ideology has become the catechism of the coming generation.
Americans have been fighting the wrong enemy since the European financial ruling class/British Crown installed their puppet George Washington. Oh I'm sorry Americans, did I just destroy another grand illusion of yours, meaning, you are still a colony of the Crown!
Mmmmm no. He said we should have fought the soviets too. He had no love for nazis.
They killed him.
the sheer number of KIAs on the list really makes real how apocalyptic the eastern front was.
And out of all of them, I think only one fired upon (and was killed by) his fellow Americans.
“Where not even stone can remain, only men endure”.
And the genocide in the last month of the war committed by the USSR and US. Far worse than anything we’ve seen before or since.
Real forgotten history, we thank you 🤝
My grandfather was one of those volunteers. My gramps faced legal prosecution after returning to America. I’m not sure how he was able to avoid a conviction, I don’t quite recall but I’m sure it had something to do with hiring a good lawyer. Anyways, he was a brave man and I’m glad to have spent a lot of time with him growing up and hearing his stories and learning a ton about combat from him, and my Naval Special Operations and Warfare Vietnam veteran father. May they both Rest In Peace. I’m stoked that they both passed a ton of their military fighting skills down to me. From survival escape resistance and evasion training to long distance shooting and advanced camouflage techniques to room clearing, the “rolling T” and close quarters combat and everything in between. Both my grandfather and my father drilled hours of those exercises into me when I was a youngster and a teenager, and I am super grateful for that. I miss both of them dearly. *Anyways I wish anyone who may read this a blessed day. Aloha A’Hui Hou.
🫡
Like Patton said" Were fighting the wrong enemy ". I believe that more everyday. Except for Gestapo and the racism.
@@georgejetson3648Can you send me some reference to him saying that?
Race is real. Stop drinking the kool-aid
I know about US volunteers, and I know about Danish volunteers. But I had no idea that American born volunteers actually lived in Denmark at the time, even though a lot of the names were of Danish origin. Learn something new every day, I will definitely look more into it. Thanks for opening another exciting rabbit hole 👍 Cheers from Denmark.
I was going to say, there was a surprising amount of Americans living in Denmark of all places, that's not meant as a dig at the Danes or anything, either.
@@Kaltagstar96
No offence taken, it surprised me as well. It was usually the other way around, since Europeans migrated to the US long before ww2.
Thank you for bringing forth information regarding this subject. It should be more widely known.
My grandfather and his three brothers crossed the athantinc to join the The Blue Division. Out of 4 brother my grandfather and two brothers came back they where us born Mexicans of Spanish descent I recall that he used to say that there where many Latin american volunteers in different branches somon of German descent and some not.
I believe it was more common than people think
It was common.. my great uncle got the call to return to fatherland in 40, lots of people who left Germany got the letter wanting them for the war effort..he got captured in Normandy.. came back home and joined US and fought in Korea,married, no children, retired from coal mining, died in 96..
@@Yamaha38XCRacer God bless his souls
@@Yamaha38XCRacerDo you know what unit captured your uncle in Normandy?
History to the highest standards.
German Nationalist Socialism was actually very popular in America as far back as the 1920’s… they held HUGE rallies in Mew York…
now it's jew york 😢
@@Oscylot88 well, they had to go somewhere. And no, not a Zyclon B shower…. America welcomes ALL with open arms, that’s what we are. Make fun of it all you want, if you were in their situation, you’d be glad America exists….
Edit-LEGALLY* come here. So there’s no confusion, this mass illegal alien migration invasion really pisses me off…. They literally get treated better than, and have more handed to them, than the ones who come here legally!!! NO!!!! Not cool…
History being preserved as it truly unfolded is extremely important so that we may avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. Excellent footage.
So most of the American fought in the European divisions, makes sense I guess, why isn’t this more known? Had no idea
Because it's not good for US propaganda!! This paint a picture that Germany is the evil!!! But it was the opposite!!!
Wiking is pronounced Viking, which is exactly where the unit derived its name. The unit originally being made up from Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Icelandic volunteers as well as Dutch and Flemish.
Very interesting subject none the less.
Really good work here, I can’t believe I haven’t seen these documents before. Born is the USA. Died in German wars interesting!
In the tv show Band of Brothers in one of the first episodes easy company pass's a group of SS prisoners and one E-Comp soldiers starts verbally mocking them and one of the SS soldiers answers him speaking English with American accent and hes like dude were you from etc same city as the mocking American it turns out
I remember! Interesting scene for sure
'Top of the morning to you fellas, enjoying the war? Where are you from, son? Eugene, Oregon.' That was Malarkey.
@@phunkeehone malarkey of course thank you 👍
@@thestanleys3657
You're welcome, it's a hell of a show. Definitely among my favorites.
@@phunkeehone yep mine too 😀
Everyone who I was honored to have been able to get to talk to and known for a good amount of people who fought for the Germans and they were able to survive the war somehow made it to America after the war and started families here in Pennsylvania. Many of them didn't know or agree with the views of the. NSDAP but instead fought for the whole premise that communism was coming to get them and their families and lands and fought for the sole reason that they were not going to live under the Hammer and Cycle if they could do anything about it in that moment in history. As we know, the Red menace reared its ugly head and spread like that plague and enveloped half of the European continent. Many fled the thing they could and came to America and that's the end of the historic story from where I am from. Great afternoon and God bless you all.
If not for the "Red Menace" the history of WW2 would be far different.
@@gwyn2 I will agree with you on that one exactly 💯% true and correct. Would have been a long a drug out war and would have been a good hard drive for the British Empire and the American troops and we would have been a lot more casualties and deaths if they didn't have to keep 3 million troops on the Oster Front, (Eastern).
Considering what the USSR did to Eastern Europe and Asia after 1945, their fears of the red menace were justified.
The whole anti-Communism idea is so stupid. The National Socialists were allied with the Communists while they assaulted most of Europe before Barbarossa. I don't think the average ignorant spouting that myth is aware of how socialist and revolutionary National Socialism actually was, especially when you consider modern Americans labelling Social Liberalism and Social Democracy as "litterally Communism". I'm not an expert on the American side, but the people from my country who volunteered often rationalise it post-war with anti-Communism, while you can find anti-Semitic and National Socialist articles etc. written by the exact same people in the 1940s, so it wouldn't surprise me if the Americans are also just hiding behind anti-Communism because it was more socially acceptable.
@@maxn.7234 Yet Germany helped the Soviet Union take parts of Poland and did nothing to help the Baltic and Finland in 1939 and 1940. They only broke the alliance and attacked the Communists when it was opportune for their own goals.
Wiking: the W is said like a V making it VIKING
Same with "Waffen"
Its actually pronounced VEEKING
In German it would be "Vikking", like "Vicky", minus the "y" , plus the "ing" from "boring"
One of the most diverse fighting forces ever assembled.
I was shocked to find out there were even many arabs, turkic peoples, and hindus on the side of national-socialists.
Not a single Pole anywhere in their ranks. "Diverse", my @ss!
@@scottkrafft6830 Lots of Poles were in the Wehrmacht and SS, they just didn't have an ethnic Polish unit because they would probably be considered German. But I agree that the common trope of the Waffen-SS being a highly diverse organisation is pretty stupid.
The British and Soviet armies were just as diverse, if not more so. And the same could be said of the US given the many ethnic backgrounds of Americans.
@@MegrelMamba Along with the Japanese, Turks were one of the few non-Aryan races that were considered to be partly superior or honorary Aryans. Hell, there was even a Chinese Wehrmacht officer.
EXCELLENT research done here. I subscribed to the channel for this very reason. Great job, looking forward to more!
I met a teacher who’s dad did this and was captured and ended up dying after the war from medical conditions due to his incarceration.
Thank you for shedding light on Lost aspects of history. One thing I noticed that was kind of shocking is the overwhelming majority of these foreign volunteers died in combat. It does not sound as though many of them made it through the war. Therefore not many were interviewed very unfortunate because it would have been great to see what was going through their mind and as an American what it was actually like on the other side.
A lot of people don't know that the US received so much German immigration in the 1800s that the German ethnic population caught up and matched our British ethnic population. That, coupled with a rising threat of Communism in the 30s (taking advantage of the Depression) and it makes sense a lot of Americans did this. Accepting so many German immigrants into the US really affected our British roots, but what is done is done. At least we got some good engineering minds out of it.
Communism is so bad we ought to have fascism instead? 😂 IDK about that
@@gary6576 I wasn't advocating for that, just explaining that was a reaction to the trend in the 30s. There was a trend of Fascism as well, as well all know too.
Over 90% of Americans voted against joining the war.
Of course some Americans harboured sentiments for an enemy they had no interest in fighting.
We joined the war because international bankers had as strong a hold of our leaders then as they do now, not because American citizens voted to.
Duh, ‘international bankers’ had nothing to do with it. Did international bankers make Hitler invade most of his neighbors? Did international bankers make Japan bomb Pearl Harbor? Did international bankers make Germany declare war on the US? War is extremely disruptive of international trade, it is the last thing international bankers would want. This doesn’t make any sense - it’s pure conspiracy theory.
@@0grifman1Hitler didn’t invade his neighbors.
No the US joined because they were attacked by the Japanese and then one week later Germany declared war on the United States. There wasn't a choice.
@PalmBeachPeloponnesean
I am of the opinion that the usa was at war long before the official declaration.
Pearl harbor changed public opinion, yes.
@PalmBeachPeloponneseanfrom what I’ve heard/learned I believe we knew that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor and we let it happen so we could go to war
There was a scene like this in band of brothers, that guy from Eugene Oregon who got the call from the fatherland
visa versa I didnt know Joseph D. Liebgott was a Austrian American
@@DJ-iu5bb That whole storyline was fake.
My great grandmothers father (mothers side) went back and fought for the Germans. Died in Stalingrad. Had another family and everything. He was an immigrate only here for a few months before heading back.
Same thing happened to my great grandfather on my maternal side, froze to death in stalingrad....
May they rest is peace. And may at least some people out there appreciate their sacrifice.
Forgotten and deliberately overlooked by history is the fact that more Dutch citizens fought with the SS in their own Division, than fought for the Allies.
@@d1g1tvl-0hretor1cStill lost
Mijn eer heet trouw.
@@jolanjumphow je stomme beck dicht, kasskop!
Forgotten and deliberately overlooked are the same things.
@@angelicsoulz - Thank you for reading my post, but forgotten is an act of neglect. Deliberately overlooked implies a conscious decision to avoid mentioning something, so it has still been forgotten by some, deliberately overlooked by others.
Regarding the US gov and education systems not touching the subject, I see it as a mixture of the government pursuing its own interests against the ideals and desires of the people (Americans were vast majority anti-war, especially with Germany, until Pearl Harbor), not wanting to associate America during this period with the NSDAP in any way (America is often demonized throughout its history aside from the world wars), and potential public support/sympathies with the NSDAP and it’s ideals in the current state of the nation.
I heard that people from Ireland and British India served with the German military in World War II, but I didn’t know that Americans did as well.
I don't agree with everything the first guy said, but Monarchist Nice and wasn't wrong Europe was destroyed and Christianity went into decline. Great and interesting, keep up the great work. Peace ✌🏻
I got chills listening to him. He literally predicted the future. Europe is dying while both russia and america are speeding it up. Then theres the 3rd world hating europe for their colonial past. ( im from a colonised country btw but no hate ).
@@jeramysamarawickrama7633truth speakers always get shut down until they speak louder
I had a brother who was a child during WW-2. He had told me that there were some people in German communities in SE Minnesota that would fly the flag of the Third Reich.
Also spoke to German American sailor from the war, when he returned home to his ethnic German community faced some criticism for fighting against "Good German Boys".
Funny you should bring this up, my grandpa was born and raised in Waseca, Minnesota and his mom was German..he joined the US army, was sent over on D-Day in the 101st Airborne (it paid more than regular infantry) and one thing his mom told him was not to kill Hitler because he made Germany great again lol She passed away from natural causes while he was over there. He got shot in the leg somewhere along the way and received shrapnel in his torso while he was in Bastogne. He also told me a story of him and some other guys stumbling upon a barn where some Germans were eating in the morning, they blocked the back exit and him and the other guys snuck in the front and mowed them all down with “Tommy guns” - not sure how true this was because he didn’t share this until he was in his 80s but repeated this story non stop when talking about his war experience at the bar when people noticed his 101st Airborne jacket and hat and thank him for his service.
That’s probably why Minnesota has been purposely flooded with Somalis. The great replacement and Punishment for not towing the Bolshevik line.
@@jasoninthehood9726shame he fought and killed his own people for his grandchildren to become a hated minority in their country.
@@GooseEggBobbyoptimistic delusion.
@@jasoninthehood9726I don't mean to disrespect your grandfather's legacy. However, imagine if German soldiers had done this and, after the war, shared this story freely and with pride. Just a thought.
Awesome
Volunteers came from everywhere, about 2000 swiss fought for Germany. Also one from my family.
Do you know where one can find more information on the Swiss volunteers? It doesn't seem like something the Swiss are keen to talk about 😅
@@cocobot90 There are some older swiss articles, radio broadcasts and books in German, but it is not talked about much indeed
In a way it makes sense. For those who had more loyalty to their ethnic homeland or a sense of belonging. And if prior to American entry into the war in 1941 there had been large amounts of people who attended the rally in New York, it makes sense some of those people felt like joining the Germans. History can sometimes have awkward moments
I’m surprised there weren’t thousands of German-American volunteers considering it is one of the most common ancestries among European descended Americans.
But lots of them came back in the 18th and 19th century and would have virtually no connection to Germany by 1939. Just as I've never even been to the UK or Ireland despite that being my background.
98% of my heritage are Germans who came to America in the 19th century. Proud of my Grandfather's service in the US 3rd Army during the war and thankful that my family, at least those in the US, were on the right side of history.
@@SloopJohnB91 after research and seeing the way things are today, I don’t think we were fighting the right enemy
@V4nillakid oh tell me how we won WW2 and the Cold War because the soviet union was broken up.
@@A_reasonable_individual42 it's gonna be the typical 4chan "muh globalism (codeword for judaism)" response
Excellent. Honestly I understand how these young men felt. There is a reason men from so many countries volunteered.
I have a German surname. My grandfather’s ship sank a u-boat that turned out to have a distant relative on it (he survived and came to a reunion in the early 2000s). But I’m half Irish and have always identified with my Irish heritage.
Of course you are. We get to choose are heritage, that's how it works.
@@cambs0181 I don’t think that’s how it worked for me. Even when I was a kid I felt closer to my Irish heritage than I did with my German or French. I just kinda figured that since my other heritage is more diluted the Irish blood is just stronger! 😜
I'm from a southern brazilian city, that was a german colony in 19th century but has german culture to this day (even a oktoberfest), my self included, i'm from german descent.
In the ww2 period Nazism was strong here, in a neighborhood city there was even a nazy party, so a new garrison of military was established to contain facism.
Some people of the region fought on bought sides of the war, because many of them was born in germany or was sons of german colonizers. The brother of my great-grandfather died in the war fighting for germany... he lived here and went back when the war started.
The most unbelievable story was that in a family, one member fought for germany and the other in the Brazilian Army, both came back and lived a normal life afterwards.
The city is Blumenau state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Feel free to ask questions
Cobras Fumantes Eterna é Sua Vitória!🚬🐍
You won’t learn this in school
You also won't learn the Earth is flat in school
@@CFAPAbruh 😂
It's virtually irrelevant due to how insignificant the number of Americans serving for Germany. It's such a small and minute detail you probably would not even learn about it in a high level University history course.
That’s because the school system is run by the globalists.
@@CFAPAbecause the earth is round
dude what a great channel, thank you
Why did America, and Britain, side with the Soviets, when you really think about it?
It looks like the Germs are with us this time. WW3 is happening.
Lord Rothschild was also outed as a Kremlin rat.
and This…
America has been penetrated by Russian spies. The American mass media, politics, education and business have been "influenced" by Russian agents. There are those who are so damaged within themselves, that they seek the destruction of their own country. And so, the problem of confronting Russia's war preparations entails a larger problem. It is a problem we cannot deal with. It is the problem of a large and emotionally committed fifth column of deluded individuals. Poisonous ideas have wormed their way into our system, so that the enemy's ideology has become the catechism of the coming generation.
Globalism, is my guess. The mustache man must of been over the target hence the relentless slander against his name. Rose Germany up from a financially crippled nation after ww1 and rose to a super power without the need of a central banking mafia. Makes you wonder doesn’t it?
J U I C E
Same reason Theres no white people left around.
My grandfather was in 1st division going ashore during D-day. As I was growing up, hearing his WW2 stories, he did mention BRIEFLY that this was known to happen. His unit came across one such person in France. An american born wearing a German uniform fighting in the Weirmacht ranks. He did not talk about it at length. They discovered this while the front was moving, and they as grunts did not have the time to sort out details of this.
It brings chills down my spine learning this 🤦🏿♂️
It's feels like EVERY country had some representation in the Waffen SS
Amazing to see how the fight Hitler brought to Europe resonated with so many Europeans and even non-Europeans. Many people signed up to help. Very noble and very telling of the absolute lies just accepted about the war.
The 20 seconds at 7:21 mark hit HARD!
Yeah...since that is what actually happened...
@@sapereaude6274 Thank god!
well i hate communism but if it gets rid of Christianity I am down
Europe was the best continent on earth by far with the best technology, best quality of life; and best culture. Now it is sinking and being overrun by the godless communist destruction that secular atheism always brings with it. God help us all.
@@gonzaloapestegui9421lol sounds like a decent proposal. If it’s actual communism… Which I think has never been implemented correctly
It’s easy to judge people from the past. We know how the story ends. We should be humble in knowing that future generations will have the same power in judging us.
Good video, great footage too
I just happen to stumble upon your channel and video. Incredible stuff!
Welcome man, glad to have you here🤝
Good men.
Very interesting but I do have to say, pronouncing buffalo as boo fa low KILLED me lol
Great info
I remember hearing a story from a guy once. Where a Japanese man that spoke perfect English with no accent approached him ready to surrender his platoon. They actually had quite a civil conversation and even compared notes. The Japanese man drove through his town several times back when he was a American citizen. They didn't far from one another. He returned to Japan when the war broke out.
Well this is going to be interesting
Will you do one on the British free corps I’m writing an essay for English
Very interesting!
When I was a kid, I remember, I didn’t even think of this possibility until I saw band of brothers. But that was a little different. Then alone, man, or grown older men, deciding to go fight for that cause.
It should also be noted that the Nazis were greatly inspired by the United States in some of their tactics and goals. Hitler himself mentioned this and many Nazis saw similarities to the U.S. in their territorial expansion-Lebrenstraum and Manifest Destiny-and the eradication of the native population-Slavs and Native Americans. Hitler himself seemed pretty envious of how the U.S. was able to expand across the continent. Along with this there was also the use of racial laws (Jim Crow) and popularity of eugenics in early 20th Century America in maintaining social order. So it doesn’t really surprise me to think that Americans would volunteer to fight for Germany, given that the Nazis took some inspiration from the United States, something that I don’t really see many people talk about.
great work - thanks
Absolute lads
These were not renegades but men who fought for the right cause.
The most unfortunate thing about this subject is that some of the traitors survived.
Thank you for a very informative documentary!
11:54 I like how you say Buffalo… Boofoul-o
It was late, complete brain fart 😂
@@historyatwar haha it’s cool
Good video, thanks for sharing!
There were over a half 1 million foreigners who joined Hitler’s army. There were tens of thousands of British descent as well., not just American
There was 54 British who joined the British Free Corps. I understand that the US education system is a little backward, but I am sure you can understand that isn't tens of thousands.
"Tens of thousands"?🤔🤨
*It is (ESSENTIAL) to recognize that in their eyes they believed they were doing what they deemed Right* Very powerful Words.
And aided in the genocide of millions of people. If I deem it right to shake your baby does that mean you'll let me?
The Waffen SS was a mosaic of diversity, with volunteers from all corners of the globe.
Awaiting delivery of Book
" Hitler's Foreign Divisions" by Chris Bishop.
One has to know that in the late 19th Century through the early to mid 20th century, German surnames outnumbered many English surnames. These were first generation Germans who grew up speaking German and being taught that Germans were superior to other Americans of non-Germanic roots. If you were a German-American visiting relatives at the outbreak of WW2, you would very likely be conscripted into the Wehrmacht notwithstanding being an "American".
16:21 Appleton is a city in Wisconsin, i live quite close
Tambien aparte del contexto historico hay q tener en cuenta que los años 40s, no son los actuales, los voluntarios estadiunidenses no tenian porque saber lo que hoy todos conocemos de aquel periodo. Saludos desde Avellaneda Argentina
The reason nobody ever hears of this, is that it flies in the face of the cultivated image of America.
Murderous Traitors. Good job covering this.
Cringe
@@willbaker8505 They were for more than cringey - they were traitors.
fight for the right side and get called traitor
@@Julie-oh5gp Oops, you tried to say the wrong side but you messed up.
@@OneOfThoseTypesLook at all these online SS officers exposing themselves as pieces of shit 😂. Bet you not a single one would go out in public waving around a Swastika
excellent presentation and narration. And as they say the victors write the history books, so of course the U.S. never teaches about this in schools because it would make it appear that there were American born people who felt a tie or loyalty to Germany rather than to the U.S. during this time. It would be perceived as politically incorrect to teach the full historical facts, but that means that history is not fully explored. As such, history is only seen through the lens of one narrative and that's not history at all. It's a truncated version of it. It makes perfect sense with so many German immigrants to the U.S. that their ties and feelings continued to resonate for them, as they hadn't been fully assimilated into the so-called American "melting pot". This type of thing is far more common than we know and will most likely repeat in the future.
Why would they spend any time on this in school? It’s a niche topic at best. With all that needs to be taught, and limited time available, I can’t see the value of spending time talking about some unknown, but certainly small number of Americans who may have fought for Nazi Germany. It has nothing to do with “political correctness” or “the winners writing history”. It’s a matter of time vs significance.
I like this channel also..
You are UP there with with Mark Felton 👍🏻
Thank you 🤝🤝
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Brits also joined the Germans outside the British Free Corps.
Well sure you can find a lot of evidence on that.
@@cambs0181 Well the Germans always needed more cannon fodder for the Eastern Front so....🤔
Well Patton said we were fighting the wrong enemy
BASED
*Excellent video, your accent is very beautiful.*
Thank you kind sir🤝
The accent is computer generated.
As general Patton said, “we fought the wrong, enemy”.
I mean he still hated the Nazis and wanted to get rid of them.
About the only thing they had in common was him being anti Semitic
And him admiring a lot of their WW1 commanders and Rommel who wasn't much of a Nazi.
It's just that he realized the Soviet's were a massive problem
@@fuoco1365 he named the Jew and they killed him within a year
Wisconsin has some of the largest german immigrant populations per capita. Many felt they needed to serve their home land. Along with the fact that they were ousted and attacked by their own during ww1 and ww2. There’s actually some publication on why prohibition succeeded by a smear campaign against German beer makers in Wi by saying they were WW1 German sympathizers. So many may have felt as outcasts in WW2 abd decided to defact
😢 This man was correct 💯% that they (America) backing Stalin was the end of a couple/three generations and was the end of half of the European continent and its nations just as the Pierre had said in 41'
Thank you
Always was interested in this topic when I saw that Band of Brothers episode where Malarkey runs into that German Pow that's also from Eugene, Oregon
I’ve always been interested in foreign volunteers, especially ones from allied nations (or nations that joined the allies later) such the BFC. I didn’t know much about the US volunteers other than Volksdeutsche.
Damn I would love to see a Band of Brothers style show about guys joining up with the German armed forces and their reasons/motivations for doing so. Will probably never happen though. Far too touchy subject for any major network/studio to get behind it. Fascinating.
@alexanderfaust4192:
Indeed, interesting
Cool video but I just realised this is an A.I voice… holy shit Hahahah 1:15 “on the every front”
The fatherland called
The reason the US government doesn’t really investigated this, is probably due to the fact that most joined the German army (Wehrmacht or SS) well before the official declaration of war in December 1941. So it wouldn’t be high treason, they would just lose their American citizenship (Section 401(c) of the Nationality Act of 1940) unless they didn’t had or acquired the German citizenship. It was well understood that once enlisted, they probably couldn’t say “Hey man, I just found out the US declared war on Germany so I’m gonna head out’. What would they gain by investigating if you can’t impose a sentence? For individual warcrimes there already was a judicial body in place after the war. Immigrants or their offspring remigrating back to country of origin isn’t exactly worth investigating for a government.
This is pretty insane to be fair
Not insane at all if you understand the real history of WW2.
@@maxn.7234pray tell what your idea of history is. Lemme guess, something something “the commies were the real enemy”. Am I in the ballpark?
Incredible someone from Boston MA was in the SS, I didn’t realize there were this many. Where can I find this book?
Wiking is pronounced (Viking)
Very interesting 👍
The truth is slowly coming out
This is right up Donny's alley!
They're literally me