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But if they dress in Waffen-SS uniforms or wax eloquent on how they enjoy seeing the little swastica-marked rail-head markers (denoting the extent of german-gauge rail) move further and further into the Soviet Union in Fire in the East, then I for one, become quite suspicious.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Could Students Be Suspended for “Beat the Jew” Game 2010
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Waffen is the former chief of NARA's motion picture, sound and video branch, according to the agency's Web site.
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There were two men, a sergeant and a private in Waffen-SS uniforms.
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Of forty-eight identified as Waffen SS, fifteen were listed in SS records; of these fifteen there were only two whose records contained more than rudimentary information: Ernst Schuler: an SS member since 1933, and at one time a member of the SS security service; Otto Beugel: awarded the Cross of Gold for, among other things, having killed ten Americans in combat.
Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993
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Of forty-eight identified as Waffen SS, fifteen were listed in SS records; of these fifteen there were only two whose records contained more than rudimentary information: Ernst Schuler: an SS member since 1933, and at one time a member of the SS security service; Otto Beugel: awarded the Cross of Gold for, among other things, having killed ten Americans in combat.
Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993
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I'm two generations away from being a European Jew, and calling the Waffen-SS "idealists" rubs me the wrong way.
Boing Boing Xeni Jardin 2010
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That's why the five police officers who in 1946 guarded Social Democratic Party (SPD) chairman Kurt Schumacher, who spent 10 years in Nazi concentration camps, were former Nazis, two of them even former Waffen SS officers.
The Lives of Nazis, the Stasi and Others Lorenz Maroldt 2010
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Waffen was not arrested and was not charged, the official said.
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Waffen directed the agents to his basement, where they identified and removed "10 to 20 boxes," a law enforcement official said.
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Although he suffered so much under the Nazis, Schumacher had called for reconciliation with the majority of the 900,000 former members of the Waffen SS and called this a human and civic necessity.
The Lives of Nazis, the Stasi and Others Lorenz Maroldt 2010
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