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by Sid Guttridge » 12 Nov 2014, 14:27
Hi Germanicus,
A recurring problem here on AHF is that disputable thread titles are often phrased as factual statements - thus "Waffen-SS Military Success - Operation Panzerfaust 1944".
I have repeatedly asked for a question mark to be inserted in such disputable thread titles, but on every single occasion this has been rejected by AHF administration.
I would suggest that his thread, for instance, could more usefully read "Waffen-SS Military Success? - Operation Panzerfaust 1944" to reflect the questionable nature of this proposition.
There have been or are a lot of people with a vested interest in boosting the Waffen-SS, from Himmler and Goebbels during the war, through post-war Waffen-SS old comrades groups and memoirs by veterans, to a whole corner of the Anglo-Saxon publishing and reenactment industries today, through to entire forums on the internet. As a result, Waffen-SS boosting has a long and effective history and its result is a dispropoprtional interest in the Waffen-SS at the expense of the far more significant role of the German Army.
Cheers,
Sid.