About the n***s?

Question

I was thinking about this before

The n**i soldiers did they not have any form of guilt when they were murdering the children and pregnant women

i mean surely some of them must have had familys and children of their own

have you heard any stories of n**i soldiers saving young children and/or pregnant women?

10 points best answer

Answer 1

The n***s and the Waffen SS in particular didn't really have to much of a conscience when it came to their victims, but a lot of the soldiers did suffer from nightmares, this was especially true in the Russian republics early in the invasion of the east, the SS at that time murdered people by firing squad and the amount of killing took its toll. On a trip to the east Himmler was told by officers about the toll it was taking on soldiers and he promptly put n**i scientists to work on a new and mass form of killing, out of that came the gas chambers.

Answer 2

n**i soldier are as cruel as US and British soldier during WW2. Are you sure ur not talking about the SS?

I read a biography on a n**i soldier during WW2 and he seem pretty normal, just trying to defend the homeland and avenging the suffer cause from WW1.

Answer 3

I seem to recall there being a n**i officer in one particular country, I think it was Denmark, who assisted in evacuating that country's Jewish population before they could be rounded up and sent to the death camps. That is a rare example of a n**i with a conscience though.

I think human beings unfortunately have an enormous capacity for evil, and while some people like you and me have a conscience which stops us doing bad things, a great many others don't seem to have any such qualms.

Imagine if all the muggers and rapists in our society (or even just backstabbing colleagues and school bullies) were put in an environment where violence against certain groups is not only tolerated, but actively encouraged. How do you think they would behave?

Answer 4

First of all there were two different groupings in the German military. The Wehrmacht (contemporary military) and the Waffen SS. The Wehrmacht for the most part behaved like a proper military and there was relatively little massacring or overt brutality.

     Now the Waffen SS. They were ideological fanatics. Even many members of the Wehrmacht were hesitant to befriend members of the Waffen SS even when serving shoulder to shoulder with them, since they were seen as being uncomfortably overzealous in their approaches.

     What allowed the men in the Waffen SS to commit such massacres? They were constantly told of how superior they were. The inferiority of their foes was also constantly hammered into them. Particularly of Easterners, who were oftimes compared to cockroaches.

      But a large part of it was their stance of absolute loyalty. After all their motto was "unsere ehre heißt treue," which translates into "our honor is loyalty." They were not reasonable men insofar as they almost never surrendered. Their whole approach to war was unique. They gave no mercy, and expected no mercy in return. Which is why there was also generally a loatheness of Allied forces in engaging them, since it always ended up messy. Since the Waffen SS members when they ran out of bullets usually took their daggers and continued until dead. Also to fall into the hands of Waffen SS legions was usually tantamount to a death sentence, since they generally saw PoW's as a waste of time and strain on resources (the need to transport them, post guards, risk their spying out plans, etc..), much easier to simply put a bullet in the head and drop them in the nearest ditch.

     This whole kind of attitude leads to the greater dehumanization of all humans. Not only of the enemy. Some civilian blows up one of your train cars and kills one or two of your soldiers. You in revenge simply murder a few dozen locals. With luck you got the one who did the crime. If not, the person who blew up the train is directly responsible for the murder of several dozen of his countrymen. It was an effective tactic. Which is why the French Resistance was close to dead near the end of the war, since most Frenchmen simply ratted out Resistance members when given the opportunity.

Group psychology also plays a big role. When in a close knit group. It's not that hard to commit crimes, since it seems psychologically you shift the blame. It's not only you. It's everyone. After all, if the others do it isn't it ok? That kind of thinking predominates as well.

Answer 5

I like how so many people put the waffen ss into the same group as the einsatzgruppen and totenkopf...who has time to murder civilians so much when you are a bit busy fighting the russians and french and americans and british and british colonies, and yugo partisans? read the history of these units before you condemn them. now the sd and einsatzgruppen...h**l they were criminals released for this special duty....and even many of them feigned illness to get out of firing squads...yeah they had voices telling them to kill....but they knew it was wrong. now comparing our troops to that in the gulf?!!! who are you? have you been there and done it or seen it? if not...then save your   bias remarks for someone that thinks you know what you are talking about.

Answer 6

Have you seen the movie "Schindler's List"?  It

will answer a lot of those questions.  Schindler was

in the n**i Party, but when he saw what the n***s

were doing to the Jews, it upset him and he set out to help them.  This is a great movie, but if you're sensitive, it may feel like your heart is being

ripped out of your body.

Answer 7

yes they had families, and yes they felt guilty,60 yrs later and we're still hunting them down. Can the same be said of certain murderers, running loose in countries that kill innocent people, because of non agreement with election results. I very much doubt it, remember my friend we are very good a throwing stones at things that happened 60yrs+ ago.Perhaps we should start throwing some  now while it is  happening overseas, because thats how it started in Germany in 1933

Answer 8

The waffen SS who were the main culprits in the murder of innocent civilians were indoctrinated to believe that certain peoples like Jews, Slavs, Gypsy's and others were subhuman and were not subject to human feelings.

Over many months, some soldiers did start having reactions like bad dreams, but they were rarely out of pity for their victims.  It was more often pure fatigue as the murder spree took them across eastern europe into Russia.

The German commanders merely gave them better rations and lots more alcohol in order to keep their morale up.

I have never heard of one of these soldiers changing his mind or helping anyone.

Answer 9

yes - during the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane in 1945.  One SS man gave a secret signal with his hand to a  child to get out.  Many of the SS were French having been ordered to join from the Alsace and Lorraine regions which Germany considered to be their territory historically.

The entire village (642 people) was massacred in a reprisal for apparently being a hide-out for the resistance (a fact since disproved) and also the killing of a German Officer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur...

Answer 10

no i do not think they felt any guilt because they believed what they were doing was right. hitler brainwashed them.

Answer 11

ask the american and british troops in the middle east, they should know

Answer 12

And the Japanese during WW2!

Answer 13

The n***s didn't see their victims as human. In fact, there are propaganda films from n**i Germany that compare Jews to rats and other vermin and claim that they should be exterminated like other pests. In general, in times of war, soldiers often dehumanize "the enemy", so that it's easier for them to follow orders they would otherwise find distasteful.

Answer 14

This is a difficult quetion to answer. Great question. If n***s would have helped the jews, political enemies, homosexuals, and so forth i would think that these men would have been looked upobn as traitors in Hitler's regime. There are people who pretended to favor the party's order on the superiority of the aryan race and the destruction of all other races. Oscar Schindler comes to my mind. He helped so many yet he profited from the n**i regime.

Answer 15

n***s were under control of hitler. he made them see the people they were killing as nothing with no feelings or anything. most n***s soldiers' families were with them.

i dont know of any stories, but google!

Answer 16

Why just the n***s?  People in Africa are killing children and pregnant women today.

Answer 17

YES

there was plenty of guilt. All soldiers felt bad about it. many generals also felt horrible about it. when many high level German generals and officials were captured they were all put into a "house" in Britain, which was full of microphones to capture their conversations, (but they didn't know about them). many of the German officials talked openly about what they did, and how they thought about it.

also, there were many n**i soldiers who were killed by there own government because they would not take part in the killing.  there are stories too, of German soldiers who are told to shoot captured enemy soldiers, but when they are taken away to be shot, instead of shooting them the soldiers would often let them go.

if you are interested, you can watch this programme/documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egIp5ColK...

Answer 18

I have not. The policy back then was if they we jewish kill them if they had blod hair and blue eyes dont kill them. I  6th grade history we learned that certinen soilders who spared a life would die. I was what they were told todo. Good question i am going to ask my history tooter.