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| Tango01 | 12 Jun 2014 12:01 p.m. PST |
…‘Fortress Europe' on D-Day. "One of the ironies of the June, 1944 Normandy campaign is that Third Reich, a regime so deeply obsessed with racial purity, would man its Atlantic Wall in Europe with so many non-German, non-Aryan troops. In fact, the list of ethnicities that manned the Nazi fortifications along the channel coast reads like a veritable multi-cultural who's who. In his best-selling 1994 book D-Day, author Stephen E. Ambrose pointed out that one out of every six soldiers fighting for the Axis in France on June 6 was actually a non-German. Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians, all of whom opposed the Soviets, took part in the defence of Normandy, along with anti-Bolshevik Ukrainians, Georgians and Azerbaijanis. These foreign volunteers were grouped into units designated as Ost battalions (Ost means "east" in German)…"
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link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
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| dBerczerk | 12 Jun 2014 5:06 p.m. PST |
Korean soldiers too, according to the film, "My Way" -- YouTube link |
| John the OFM | 12 Jun 2014 5:59 p.m. PST |
Yes, Koreans conscripted by the Japanese, captured by the Russians and then conscripted by them, captured by the Germans and then conscripted by them. I wonder if they expected the Yanks to conscript them next? |
| Tango01 | 13 Jun 2014 12:36 p.m. PST |
Those guys have really bad luck!! (smile). Amicalement
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 Mserafin  | 13 Jun 2014 1:14 p.m. PST |
A lot of the Poles (the ones who lived long enough, at least) later switched sides. Polish 1st Armored took a hammering at Falaise, but was able to make good its losses from Polish POWs. |
| CampyF | 15 Jun 2014 4:12 a.m. PST |
My dad captured a couple of Polish conscripts during the war. |
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