ML59 wrote: If you do not acknowledge the evil "criminal" nature of the SS and pretend to deal with them as any other purely military organization not only you make a major historical mistake but, in this contest even more important, you completely fail to grasp the intimate soul of the Black Corps and all its ramifications.
Of course the SS was not a purely military organisation. The General SS had various branches, one of which called the Waffen SS, had a particular military focus. As the war progressed, this focus increased (ignoring this is a historical mistake).
Why is there an issue with readers having an interest in the military aspect of the Waffen SS, eg foreign volunteers, conflict with the Heer, recruiting, irony, human tragedy etc ? You can do this AND still appreciate its ideological roots in the General SS and the evil, immoral political ideology. I see no problem.
What I do see, too often, is posters going out of their way to exaggerate in vilifying/disparaging the Waffen SS (even bordering on fantasy). These historical mistakes should not be ignored on this forum, but corrected.
Dennis