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[edwest]

http://www.usmbooks.com/nazi_pilot_logbook_IDs.html





Usual disclaimer,
Ed

[Dénes Bernád]

Originally Posted by edwest

http://www.usmbooks.com/nazi_pilot_logbook_IDs.html

I am wondering how would they know that particular German pilot was a Nazi? Did they find his party membership booklet?

[VtwinVince]

According to the Americans, anyone serving in the Wehrmacht was a 'Nazi', but of course some of us know better.

[Jim P.]

I think VtwinVince has the right explanation - in general parlance, in the U.S. anyone associated with the WW-II German forces is described as a 'Nazi'.

[Bombphoon]

Though many who were conscripted were not Nazis, if you willingly fight to advance the Nazi cause and do not oppose it, then you're a Nazi.

I have spoken to many veteran Allied infantry troops who smile as they say that as they were advancing through France and Germany, they never found any Nazis whatsoever. Every German they captured said they were either 'forced into it' or were 'anti-Nazis in disguise'. One veteran I spoke to from the Leicestershire Regiment said that the only Nazi seemed to be Hitler, because every other German he met denied he ever was a Nazi.

[Stig Jarlevik]

It must be very exciting nowadays for our British and American friends who I am sure wait in anticipation for every election to know whether they are Labour or not, aka Democrats or Republicans, since they don't know that until the final vote count is over....

1945 was not a very good year to determine anything regarding political standpoints in Germany.....

Cheers
Stig

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik

1945 was not a very good year to determine anything regarding political standpoints in Germany.....

Cheers
Stig

Maybe, maybe not, but you could consider the figures for (a) the Nazi vote in the 1933 election; (b) the aggregate vote for the other conservative nationalist parties in the same election; and (c) the peak membership of the NSDAP and its associated organisations. And how many Germans applauded the Anschluß, the annexation of the Sudetenland and the conquests of 1939–40? Like it or not, Nazism had massive support when things seemed to be going well for it but a lot of those people were very anxious to disavow their former enthusiasm after the tide turned.

[Stig Jarlevik]

Oh yes, I know Nick

It is the same today. As long as a Party is doing all right and people believe in it, they get lots of votes. The problem for the Germans was that once they voted the Nazi Party to power, they could not vote them out again....., and I bet the further we move towards 1945, the less supporters they had.

Nothing really new under the sun there is it?

The point is that Democracy is the best "invention" we have made and the Germans learned the hard way what it ment to vote that away.

Cheers
Stig