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To: RoughDobermann
10,000 Danes also volunteered to join the SS ...

So did Norwegians, Swedes and other Europeans.  But don't smear their motives.  They joined to fight against Russian Marxism which was a genuine threat to their borders, as it was to Germanys.

20 posted on 01/23/2003 12:48:42 PM PST by DensaMensa (WW2 is far more complex than can be represented on a bumper sticker.)
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To: DensaMensa
So did Norwegians, Swedes and other Europeans. But don't smear their motives. They joined to fight against Russian Marxism which was a genuine threat to their borders, as it was to Germanys.

Yes, I know. Most European nations contributed to different divisions of the Waffen SS. They also tried to recruit American and British POWs with very poor results. Personally, I don't care what their motives were. IMO, they collaborated with their enemies while the Germans occupied their home countries. And I'm smearing their motives? A traitor is a traitor, motive or not...

22 posted on 01/23/2003 1:00:49 PM PST by RoughDobermann
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To: DensaMensa
"They joined to fight against Russian Marxism which was a genuine threat to their borders, as it was to Germanys."

True. However, Germans were ultimately not fighting against Russian Marxism. Their goal was to colonize European Russia and to exterminate or deport the existing the Slavic population.

23 posted on 01/23/2003 1:02:34 PM PST by Truthsayer20
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