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From: silber@uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Reagan evil?: re to jj
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Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 12:30:00 EST
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU!silber    Mar 12 11:30:00 1986


 
Just to clear up a point about the Bitsburg incident.
By 1944, both the Waffen SS and the Wehrmacht (regular army) were drawing troops
from the same manpower pool.  The SS tended to get the better troops, but most
of the enlisted men and a fair number of NCO's and officers were either
transfers from the Wehrmacht or draftees.  Those divisions which fought on the
Eastern front tended to behave worse, even in France, than those which had
not, and the older divisions, and volunteer units (from Norway, the Ukraine, and
the Baltic) tended to behave badly too.  The behavior of the 9th and 11th SS
Panzer divisions during Operation Market Garden was exemplary.  I don't know
which divisions had men buried at Bitburg, so I can't make any judgement there.

				Ami Silberman
"The only sure things are death and taxes, and many people cheat on the later..."