RickHolland
October 17th, 2011, 04:32 PM
A general overview of the Waffen SS. In general most people remember the "SS" as killing innocent people or P.O.W's. However, a great majority of Waffen SS soldiers exhibited tremendous fighting ability.
Waffen SS Hitlers Elite Fighting Force - YouTube
They were regarded as the elite of the SS, they were completely subservient to Hitler. Their badge was the death's head on the right collar-patch of their uniform.
Originally created as guards for the regime's concentration camps, the special unit of the SS under SS Gruppenfuhrer Eicke was then deployed whenever particular brutality and absolute devotion to duty were required.
The selection and training of the "party soldiers", most of them very young men, were designed from the very beginning to purge them of human compassion and a capacity for independent thought.
Until the very end, the men with the death's head emblem were deployed in the focal points of the war. Not until the 9th May 1945, in Vienna, did they surrender when the "Thousand Year Reich", for which they had fought tenaciously and without mercy, was in ruins.
The film shows how people, who were originally by no means of a particularly extreme disposition, were schooled to place themselves, body and soul, in the service of unimaginable barbarity -- and how or if these atrocities weighed upon the consciences of these willing henchmen.
The SS: Death's Head - YouTube
Hitler's SS Black Sun, 'Santur' - YouTube
Waffen SS Hitlers Elite Fighting Force - YouTube
They were regarded as the elite of the SS, they were completely subservient to Hitler. Their badge was the death's head on the right collar-patch of their uniform.
Originally created as guards for the regime's concentration camps, the special unit of the SS under SS Gruppenfuhrer Eicke was then deployed whenever particular brutality and absolute devotion to duty were required.
The selection and training of the "party soldiers", most of them very young men, were designed from the very beginning to purge them of human compassion and a capacity for independent thought.
Until the very end, the men with the death's head emblem were deployed in the focal points of the war. Not until the 9th May 1945, in Vienna, did they surrender when the "Thousand Year Reich", for which they had fought tenaciously and without mercy, was in ruins.
The film shows how people, who were originally by no means of a particularly extreme disposition, were schooled to place themselves, body and soul, in the service of unimaginable barbarity -- and how or if these atrocities weighed upon the consciences of these willing henchmen.
The SS: Death's Head - YouTube
Hitler's SS Black Sun, 'Santur' - YouTube