Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Wehrmacht = German Army? YES or NÖ? #Misconceptions" video.

  1. "NÖ" XD
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  2. The Juice: "If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off? Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy city with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an axe. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him...but to make him do what you want to do. Not killing...but controlled and purposeful violence. But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose of the control. It's never a soldier's business to decide when or where or how—or why—he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. The statesmen decide why and how much; the generals take it from there and tell us where and when and how. We supply the violence; other people—'older and wiser heads,' as they say—supply the control. Which is as it should be." -Starship Troopers (Robert A Heinlein)
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  3. The Juice: Uh, yeah they knew. But what choice did they have? The wehrmacht was the german military at the time. It's not the soldiers place to question why or where they fight. That would break the chain of command completely. You need to read more Heinlein my friend. The Wehrmacht are "clean" in the sense that they weren't tasked with the more genocidal affairs of nazi germany. That job fell on the SS primarily.
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  4. Sven Ruecker: There is no single record of german soldiers who "confessed" without getting tortured by the allies first either...
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  5. I guess the problem in english stems from the fact that "army" is somtimes being used interchangeably with the word "military". If someone is refering to the entire armed forces of Germany, then "German military" would be a more proper use of words than "German Army", since Army (Heer) basically only denotes the land based fighting forces. Although I guess "German Military" might also be misrepresemtative for "Wehrmacht", since the term "Military" could also include the Schutzstaffel (SS) since they were a "military" (or rather para-military) branch of the German government at the time, and a completely separate entity from the Wehrmacht, right?
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  6. Cedric Collongues: Are you saying that the SS acted as recruiters of troops for the Whermacht? I don't think they did, but i'm not entirely sure though. Waffen-SS taking orders from the Whermacht on the battlefield is a given for tactical reasons. It would be awkward and cumbersome trying to fight a battle where you have several troops who don't follow the same chain of command as everybody else. And since the Waffen-SS weren't "real" soldiers but merely a para-military organization of genocidal maniacs, I doubt the Wehrmacht would've had anything to do with them unless the Wehrmacht got to call the shots.
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