I'm almost ready to hit the front. Still have quite a few things to get. But I have at least enough to get started.. Want to read an excellent about one Soldiers personal experience of his service with the Prince Eugen Division in the Waffen SS, I highly recommend Balkan Nightmare.
Wow great colection!!! if I remember well the Prince Eugen SS Divison was formed with Communists haters from Romania
Keep on working,milions on wellfare depend on you
Very Good, I would'nt necessarily say communist haters, at least not in the beginning.. Originally I think as a Saxon living in Romania and seeing as Romania was allied with Germany until they eventually ousted their puppet dictator and joined the Russians in late 44, your only choice was to join the Romanian Army
NOT or because you were a Saxon and of Deutsch blood and Deutsch speaking you could join the German military. One way or the other being a young wipper snapper during that time your fate to be involved with the war was sealed. So why not take the lesser of two evils and join the Waffen SS. I sure as hell would rather of joined the Waffen SS rather than take my chances an be drafted into the Romanian army with Ethnic Romanians who treated Saxons in their country like second class. Get the book you will learn a very honest side about these Romanian Saxons and how they were just hard working, honest farmers that lived in Romania for centuries in peace until WWII destroyed their whole world.
So yes the Prince Eugen Division was mainly maned up with Romanian Saxons, NOT Romanians there is a very distinct difference. And not only Saxons, but Swabians and probably some other ethnic Germans that seeded the whole of eastern europe and Russia hundreds of years before WWII. Germany back in those days sent tonnes of people east to settle and work the land, because they were efficient and good at what they did. So during the war, the German war machine needed men, and they knew where they could find them. This is another interesting fact about the waffen SS. Many of those fighting men were not even from Germany, but they were some of the best fighting forces the German military had at their disposal.
But later in the war late 44, when the tide turned and the Russians came pooring into Romania and the like, then the author does speak badley of the Russians because they overran his homeland "Romania" and the whole east and basically destroyed their way of life. So yes they were fighting not for Hitler at that point, but rather against communism.
General Patten was RIGHT... We should have rearmed the Germans and joined them at the end of the war after Hitler was gone, and took out the Russians...
Now wouldn't that have solved alot of our current problems. THe cold war anyway would not have happened.
