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[[File:Multicultural wehrmacht. | [[File:Multicultural wehrmacht.png|thumb|300px|[[Multicultural]] German Armed Forces]] | ||
A million '''foreign volunteers''' joined the [[Wehrmacht|German Army]] in [[World War II]], nearly half of them with the [[Waffen-SS]]. | A million '''foreign volunteers''' joined the [[Wehrmacht|German Army]] in [[World War II]], nearly half of them with the [[Waffen-SS]]. | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
This has been described as the largest volunteer army in the history of mankind to ever fight for a foreign nation and as being a major motivation for [[Allied psychological warfare]] attempting to reduce this support.<ref> | This has been described as the largest volunteer army in the history of mankind to ever fight for a foreign nation and as being a major motivation for [[Allied psychological warfare]] attempting to reduce this support.<ref>Holohoax Handbooks, Volume 15: Germar Rudolf: Lectures on the HolohoaxโControversial Issues Cross Examined 2nd, revised and corrected edition. http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?page_id=15</ref> There are also various politically incorrect aspect regarding this, aside from arguably being problematic for the view of National Socialist Germany as practicing terror and being hated in the rest of Europe, see the "External links" section. | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:01, 28 February 2024
File:Multicultural wehrmacht.png
Multicultural German Armed Forces
A million foreign volunteers joined the German Army in World War II, nearly half of them with the Waffen-SS.
Overview
This has been described as the largest volunteer army in the history of mankind to ever fight for a foreign nation and as being a major motivation for Allied psychological warfare attempting to reduce this support.[1] There are also various politically incorrect aspect regarding this, aside from arguably being problematic for the view of National Socialist Germany as practicing terror and being hated in the rest of Europe, see the "External links" section.
See also
- Clean Wehrmacht
- Foreign volunteers of the Wehrmacht
- Foreign volunteers of the Waffen-SS
- National Socialist Germany and partisans/resistance movements: Anti-Communist partisans
External links
- The European Volunteer Movement in World War II
- Epic: The Story of the Waffen SS
- New Aspects of Andreij Vlassov, The Russian Army of Liberation (ROA)
References
- โ Holohoax Handbooks, Volume 15: Germar Rudolf: Lectures on the HolohoaxโControversial Issues Cross Examined 2nd, revised and corrected edition. http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?page_id=15