Speaking of the Waffen-SS of the German army, I wonder what people's first impressions of it are?
Some people say that this was a murderous armed force of Hitler, which saddled him in the war and was a tool for his expansion. It is also said that from the perspective of the military, the SS is a good fighting force, and of all the SS units, the top few are the aces.
Of course, the evaluation of this army is based on the wisdom of the wise, but if there is a unit in the famous SS unit, with scarce materials, no uniforms, no pay, and no food supply, "it is simply a poor clanging hanako unit," and this unit still belongs to the battle sequence of the Second SS Imperial Division, would you believe it?
Not to mention, before Hitler went to war, there was really such a force of concubines, although the concubines had also been received by the SS Supreme Leader Himmler, but this unit was still not taken seriously.
The reason was that the members of this force were fascist and SA members from Austria, and because of Germany's special relationship with Austria, there were taxpayers everywhere in Austria, which attracted the close attention of the Austrian dictator, Prime Minister Talfis, who, under his iron fist, announced in 1932 the ban on the Nassa party in the territory and firmly opposed the German-Austrian merger.
These practices of his gave Himmler and the SS the opportunity to provoke, and at his instigation, thousands of Members of the Nazi Party and SA crossed the German-Austrian border into Bavaria, Germany, in Austria, where they were received by Himmler and given the exiled contingent the name "Austrian Legion".
Later, because Hitler had just come to power and the situation was still unstable, in order to stabilize the mood in Austria, this organization was renamed the "Austrian Relief Society", and at the same time, there was no excessive attention in terms of treatment, which led to the fact that the legion organization mentioned above did not have any uniforms, salaries, and even food became a problem. This also made these fanatical Austrian lads very dissatisfied, and many of them clamored to go home, but by this time they were homeless, and Austria had revoked their citizenship and demanded that Germany abolish all the organizations in which Austrians existed in Germany.
In 1934, these Austrians were forced to finally collectively acquire German citizenship, and since then they had begun to receive the attention of the SS as the German "Austrian Relief Society". In March of the same year, the men received the first batch of training uniforms, and in the winter they received the traditional black uniforms of the SS, and in the winter, they put on these black uniforms, and "the handsome boys finally felt warm." ”
At the Nuremberg Party Congress that same year, the first appearance of these people amazed Himmler, and at Himmler's proposal Hitler quickly agreed to integrate these people into the SS Special Mobile Unit at that time, and became the second battalion of the German Regiment stationed in Munich, Germany, and trained with the first battalion of the brother unit with the German Seventh Panzer Division.
The SS Special Mobile Unit was the predecessor of the famous Waffen-Waffen Second Imperial Panzer Division. At this time, these young men from Austria, although they were homeless for the sake of faith, their fanatical thoughts still made them get their wish, and they found the opportunity to fight for the Fuehrer, which really had a little "the feeling of a daughter-in-law becoming a wife." And there were many "volunteers" who were so fanatical to them and voluntarily joined the SS at that time, such as the later famous SS 5th Viking Division, the 11th Nordic Division, which was mainly foreign "volunteers", and what do you think about the situation in which these foreigners volunteered to fight for Germany? Welcome to leave a message to discuss, like to like and follow, there will be more about World War I, World War II content continue to update.
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