-renapd- opened this issue on Sep 28, 2002 ยท 50 posts
MaxxArcher posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 7:51 PM
Great uniform, though I think you've got to get your story straight:
The SS (Schutz Staffel = Security Forces) were established somewhere in the 1930ties by Heinrich Himmler (later well known as the inventor of the gaschambers) as THE elite security forces of Hitler. Young boys from the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth), a very millitaristic kind of boys and girls scouts organisation (alleged holliday camps), were recruted to join the SS. A few citeria: Blond, fanatic, blindly following orders and the capacity to lead. Only the best made it into the SS. The SS uniform was (and always has been) black with the skull on their cap and the SS sign (in rune) on the shoulder pad. In those days (1935-36) anti-semitism was already very widespread, 1000nds of jewish families were already sent to recovery camps where they would be taken good care of. Camps led by, you guessed it, Hitlers SS. Plans for the final solution to the jewish problem (Endlung der Judenfrage) were already under development (if not finished).
So, there has never been any pre WW2 unawareness within the SS of what was about to take place, they knew war was underway, in fact, less than 2 years later, in 1938, the War began for Europe with Hitlers troops barging into Poland...
Personally I am not offended in any way by any uniform, but living in the Netherlands, I do know (and understand) that addressing the SS and the likes is just (still) as painfull for a lot of Europeans as talking favourably about Bin Laden today is for Americans. And mind you, within my parents and grantparents generation, there is NO single family in Europe that doesnt suffer from some kind of WW2 horror, this goes for Germans as well.
Finally I think that you got the SS mixed up with the Wehrmacht (German army) or the SA (Schutz Abteilung = Security Division) of the German Army in those days. They indeed wore olive colors, but without the runes and the skull.
BTW, the runes, as well as the ancient mystical swastika sign (now still bitterly hated by most people in EU) were directly stolen from the mideval druids, solely for propaganda purposes. The Nazis needed symbols and signs to unite people, but also to distinguish them from other people, they even created false excavation sites to provide proof of the German heritage.
Theres a lot more to tell, but that would be way off topic, so Ill leave it at this. I hope to have given you a bit of insight, not intending to offend or rant anyone.
Cheers
MaxxArcher