The truth obviously hurt — it hurts the tyrannon, the egoic mind. Every word those French Waffen-SS soldiers said was the plain truth. Yes, the De Gaulle army DID wear US Army uniforms, and it drove American “Sherman” tanks.
But he who says the truth should have one foot in the stirrup. 😉
Recruiting poster of the French Waffen-SS: “You too! Your comrades await you in the French division of the Waffen-SS!”
French Waffen-SS defended ferociously the Reich Chancellery in Berlin — and German women facing the Red Army rapists — in the very last days of the war in 1945.
The Yanks stayed on in France for another 21 years (despite a solemn promise by FDR — given in a 1944 radio address which he made in the French language — “to leave as soon as the last German soldier leaves French soil”).
They were forced out by President Charles de Gaulle in 1965, and had to leave their lordly headquarters (and NATO hq), which they had located arrogantly in the Versailles palace!
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If they had treated England the same way, it would have been like the Yanks setting up their HQ in Windsor Palace!
All that happened in 1945 was that instead of the Germans, the Europeans got new masters, and non-European ones to boot.
Btw, by no stretch of the imagination were those Waffen-SS volunteers traitors. In their Waffen-SS contract, it was stated they would fight ONLY on the eastern front to stop bolshevism!
No foreign volunteer in the Waffen-SS ever fought his fellow countrymen, or the Western Allies! They only fought in the east!
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Margaret Huffstickler and I translated the memoirs of the great Walloon (French Belgian) Léon Degrelle, general and hero of the Waffen-SS, from his superb French into English.
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