| I have to agree with the previously posted comment in the thread of 2005 of being a publicity stunt.Some POWs joined from an extrinsic motivation,a skive and never intended to take up arms.But there were others who had been turned and were drawn into the spirit of their captors and were seduced by the uniform and so called eliteness of the SS and their equipment.
Whether these people would have fought is a different matter.Some did and were renegades from continental countries which the Nazis had overrun and despite the treatment meted out by the Nazis to their fellow counrtymen, served their new masters to the end. |