maohoohe comments

During the last years of the war, the SS gave up it's height requirements (and most other requirements, including that of being an NSDAP member); thus, it drafted any able body that wasn't grabbed by the army, air force, and navy. So, saying that a soldier buried as an SS-man was a Nazi, just because he was in the SS and buried at Bitburg, is bullpucky. I am a former US Army officer. I have also been to Israel. It's an impressive country, and it's people have a lot to be proud of. But Jews in general can't get over bitching about Nazis, despite the fact that many Russian prisoners also died in German concentration camps; many gypsies died in those camps; many masonic lodge members died in camps (it was an organization the Nazis didn't like); and many Jews also died under Stalin's authority in the Ukraine--but no one bitches about any of that, etc. It's simply that Hitler singled out Jews in particular. And it's really not so much Israelis that like to whine, but American Jews: they are the biggest complainers (the one's who aren't secretly collecting German WWII militaria as a hobby, that is) . I myself am a genetically flawed person (I have type 1 diabetes: this means I would most likely have been euthanized as "genetically undesirable" had I lived in the Reich. But that was then, this is now. I don't lose any sleep over it. The modern Germans, in my opinion, have atoned. Today's Germans will not let it happen again and have nothing really to do with what their grandfathers did in the 1930's and '40's. Get OVER it and move on.