Mexican Waffen SS member
Mexican Waffen SS member
Hello:
Once, I read someplace in the internet that there were a mexican member of the Waffen SS. I have searched lots of places for more information about this theme but I have not had success.
Can someone inform me about this or where can I get information about?
Thank you in advance,
JulioAF
Once, I read someplace in the internet that there were a mexican member of the Waffen SS. I have searched lots of places for more information about this theme but I have not had success.
Can someone inform me about this or where can I get information about?
Thank you in advance,
JulioAF
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I don't have any suggestion on where to check, but most of the pre and early war SS-VT men who came from far corners of the globe (such as Papua) were the sons of German immigrants and businessmen and such. They weren't usually from families who were natives of those territories with long ancestral associations there.
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Re: Mexican Waffen SS member
Yes, i forgot his name but i try to find it back for you. Initially, he served in the Division Azul staff. After Division Azul was disbanded, he was transferred to the SS-PK Kurt Eggers..If i am not mistaken, he was the one who wrote the articles in the Division Azul newspaper, EnlaceJulioAF wrote:Hello:
Once, I read someplace in the internet that there were a mexican member of the Waffen SS. I have searched lots of places for more information about this theme but I have not had success.
Can someone inform me about this or where can I get information about?
Thank you in advance,
JulioAF
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un saludo
Xavier
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!Y para el amigo mexicano :
It was at last two mexicans serving within the Waffen-SS .
Along with some argentines ones ,4 or 5 brasilians , one central american (maybe guatemalan ,maybe honduran ....name was R.Monzon Toledo ,served as SS PK and journalist of phalangist newspaper Enlace (printed in Germany by the Ibero-American Institute of General Faupel ,former profesor in War College of peruvian army and former general-inspector of Argentine Army ,and also former german embassador in Franco's Spain ,1937)
and at last a famous german chilean Volksdeutsche : SS Brigadeführer Hansen ,the "father" of the SS Artillery ,born in Santiago de Chile and chilean citizen .
Also many cubans one (around 20 or 30) ,belonging to the cuban chapter of the spanish Phalange (Cuba had only 40 years since independance from Spain) who enlisted the Division Azul.
So even "los españoles de las Americas" - as would have said Lluys de Santamarina , answered ¡PRESENTE ! to the call of the anticommunist cruzade .
For the ones who would like to know ,I am working by now on a book about latinamerican volunteers in Axis forces . For instances it shows up lots of italo-argetines who traveled to italy to enlist the Blackshirts ,like Armando Tela , argentine businessman who joined an MVSN Blackshirts Assault Legion during the Albanian War ,was desmobilized as NCO ,stayed in Italy where he formed another successful private enterprise ,then let his factory and good salary to enlist the Black Brigades as sergeant-major ,wounded in partisan ambush and murdered by partisans while in convalescence at home .
Those men where real idealists
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Xavier
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Re: Mexican Waffen SS member
did anyone find this names of the mexican wafffen ss or of waffen ss who left spain after the war to live in mexico. I currently hunting my grandfather who was a waffen ss from spain who move to mexico after the war was over?
Re: Mexican Waffen SS member
There was a Dutch Waffen-SS officer - Reiner Akkerman - who was born in Mexico City but I doubt he had the Mexican nationality. He was KIA in the Narwa area on Februari 11, 1944.
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Bert Kossen
Kind regards,
Bert Kossen