
183 - The Waffen-SS
The WW2 Podcast
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Is the R for SS a Strategic Mistake?
From the late 30s they start to get armed. Who's training them? Do they have their own training policy that they've drawn up? Are they expecting themselves to be used in a sort of a regular army infantry role or are they bringing in army trainers so they can work within military doctrine. But what Hyrule did which was very very clever was he was not a military man. He served very very briefly during the First World War and an infantry regiment, but never ever saw any combat so he was simply not an experience to call it quite anymore. And again it goes back to him because him was sold off in the SS as the foot soldiers and Nazi ideology. So he wanted them
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