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  • In a recent newspaper interview, you disagreed with the Nuremberg trials 'judgment that the Waffen SS was a "criminal organization."

    'I Have Made Mistakes' 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • The last European Army was instituted during the last major European punch up, unfortunately they were called the Waffen SS, with troops from a percentage of todays EU states, obviously German, but also French Flemish Dutch Norwegan Danish Austrian Latvian and even those who servred in the Legion of St George under Amery, who met Mr Pierrpoint early one morning for a long drop.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • The Waffen SS was the name of a feared Nazi military organization.

    WBAY Action 2 News 2008

  • Karl Wolff, the Waffen SS chief for Italy, and Heinrich von Vietinghoff, who had replaced Kesselring as overall military commander, were proposing to surrender the hundreds of thousands of German soldiers who still occupied northern Italy.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Karl Wolff, the Waffen SS chief for Italy, and Heinrich von Vietinghoff, who had replaced Kesselring as overall military commander, were proposing to surrender the hundreds of thousands of German soldiers who still occupied northern Italy.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • A Riga court removed the city council's ban on "Legion Day" paving the way for a march down main street honoring 140,000 Latvians who fought in the Waffen SS during WWII.

    Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Their Denial And Our Silence Mock International Holocaust Memorial Day Rabbi Abraham Cooper 2012

  • While there are political soldiers e.g., the Waffen SS, not every soldier is political.

    Franz-Stefan Gady: Gone with the Wind: Gone in the Head Franz-Stefan Gady 2011

  • While there are political soldiers e.g., the Waffen SS, not every soldier is political.

    Franz-Stefan Gady: Gone with the Wind: Gone in the Head Franz-Stefan Gady 2011

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