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To: zimdog
Not after I found the book.

And to think...it only took you two weeks of looking and dozens upon dozens of evasive posts whining about how you couldn't be expected to provide numbers supporting your claims.

Half as combat troops. Half as military laborers and combat reserves.

More specific please. I find it doubtful that they split up neatly at exactly 50%.

No. We are looking at troop numbers.

I beg to differ. In your previous post you made it a point to emphasize that Hitler's mahometan SS troops were a tiny fraction of his entire army. You thus contextualized them as a percentage of his total troop strength. The proper comparison with the allies would accordingly use their percentages as well.

Of course the real story here is that you now realize you made a mistake in taking Hitler's muslims as a percentage, because you know they made up a larger chunk of his armies than they did of the allies. Thus you evade the subject.

378 posted on 01/25/2007 9:34:06 AM PST by lqclamar
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To: lqclamar
And to think...it only took you two weeks of looking and dozens upon dozens of evasive posts whining about how you couldn't be expected to provide numbers supporting your claims.

Actually, I gave you the 200,000 figure, which you dismissed as coming from Africans, and I gave you the conservative estimate that 1/3rd of the troops were Muslim, which you poo-pooed. Now that I found the book and have given you more specific numbers, you can see that the earlier, rougher figures were also significantly lower than the more detailed evidence suggests.

More specific please. I find it doubtful that they split up neatly at exactly 50%.

Echenberg gives the statistics for the French Sudan. The split is 46-54 active-reserves.

I beg to differ. In your previous post you made it a point to emphasize that Hitler's mahometan SS troops were a tiny fraction of his entire army. You thus contextualized them as a percentage of his total troop strength. The proper comparison with the allies would accordingly use their percentages as well.

Well, earlier you had challenged the troop numbers and having been proven wrong on that you are now turning to troop percentage. Fine. Find the total troop numbers and compare. The Wermacht had about 18,000,000 soldiers and 21,000 of them were Muslims. The French had over 100,000 Muslim troops from West Africa alone. If their total forces reached 90,000,000 troops (larger than the population of European France itself), then you might have a comparison.

393 posted on 01/25/2007 1:10:27 PM PST by zimdog
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