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From: ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless)
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Subject: Re: The Shame of the President
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> 
> 	About Reagan's dumb comments, Mike Cherepov writes:
> 
> When at age 16 you are drafted by the Nazi Germany army
> and sent to be shredded - you are in sad shape.
> Germans who were 16 in 1944 have been submitted to
> overwhelming Nazi propaganda since age of 5.
> Even if you are intelligent enough at 16 to suspect,
> are you determined enough to oppose the regime?
> 	
> Yes, BUT this does not apply to the SS men buried in this cemetary.  Sorry,
> Mike, but there just isn`t a good way to defend this Reagan boo-boo.
> 
Much as I think Reagen is a doik for what he's doing, the above comments
are WRONG.  You must remember that the SS was an elite corps of the army.
We all think of the SS as the black uniformed SS Death Head Corps.  They
were the bastards in the camps, may they roast forever.

In addition to the Deaths Head, there were the Waffen SS.  They were
just like regular army troops, except they were sort of "elite" and
recieved better weapons/ food, etc.  They wore green uniforms with
black collars. These guys were NOT the Death Head butcherers. (in
other words they shot Jews in villages like regular army troops,
rather than gassing them.) They were young kids who had been raised
under Hitler, who had "made the grade" of the SS rather than been sent
to the regular army along with their less able kin.  These were the
guys Reagen will lay the wreath over.


There also were a blue uniformed bunch that were fatso Goering's
personal anti-aircraft batallion, and some more, if memory serves
me correctly.  You should consult Howard K. Smith's "Last Train
From Berlin" for details.


				Dave van De Kerk