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Old 24th March 2006, 14:59
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Re: Luftwaffe personnel and Nazi-party membership

Andrey
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And there were plenty, who not. I respect those great emmigrants and white army members in general, but I think one should have more boldness not to leave your country and fatherland, whatever regime is ruling.
Well, not everybody could. A future wife of my grand-grand uncle managed to in the late 1920s and I am not awared she ever wanted to return to Russia, at least under Soviet rule. Certainly, decision to emmigrate was a drastic one, especially having in mind that majority kept Russian tradition. Nonetheless judging by approach to Polish veterans, I have no doubt that their decision was fully justified. Dead men have no voice.
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May be that's because Polish communists didn't eliminated Polish people by millions?
They would have to extreminate the whole nation. The situation here was very tense and dense.
This is not the point however, the point is that we have nothing like that in the Germany, where there was no such terror like under Soviet rule.
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Here I would join your point of view, but I don't think that other discussion members really disputing with you in this matter.
I agree but this is linked, I mean the German post-war propaganda and the current view of the situation in NS Germany. You see, there was no problem to overpaint swastikas in protest against removing old unit's badge but that was all, they have protested against.
The general situation was just accepted.

Olve
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Nobody has ever said that you stated that all Germans were NS supporters
Thank you.
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It was said that you more or less indicate it. BIG DIFFERENCE.
It was said by you. Re-read what I have written.
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That you dont understand the difference is really no big surprise.
And its clear that political history is not your strongest topic. Its best that you stick to the one thing you know; Polish WWII aviation history
Well, pointing out who were bad guys is lack of knowledge of political history? I am afraid that you have never seen any intel reports about internal situation in wartime Germany. I did.

Ruy
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Well Franek isn't isolated when he forget about the strong opposition on the Left before and while the Nazis came to power. To assume that all those German communists etc simply changed their views is rather simplistic.

Paradoxically it was a strong Communist political force that drove many in the center towards the Nazis, towards the extreme right.
You are entirely correct but one point. I wrote that Germans of all relligions supported the regime in some way and not that they were all supporting it.
Still, with the communists the situation is much more complicated. In mid-late 1930s plenty of communists from eg. Poland or Germany were called to Moscow and then either executed or jailed. During the early stages of WWII, up until Barbarossa, communists actually supported the Germans, either sabotaging industrial effort in France and UK or cooperating in combat with national opposition/underground in occupied countries.
Only after German attack communists turned against Germany but still it was not a very significant group, although perhaps most significant of all of them. What is important, they were not a national opposition, and in general, communists were working against their respective countries. Thus, we still do not have any substantial national German opposition. They either supported regime or kept silent with the same effect.
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