In 1972, I got my first remote contrôles car from a friend of my dad, and he was a former SS. Both met in Algeria in the 1950s while in the Foreign Legion. When I got my toy car, the guy was a mercenary
The only colonial power actually defeated on the field by a liberation movement, first at Cao Bang and then to Dien Bien Phu. There has never been a Dien Bien Phu of the English, Dutch, Americans, or Portuguese.
Do we have any numbers on this claim or even that one of these depicted men were such a thing?
The closest thing I’ve heard is that the percentage of German speakers rose sharply. But that’s the same that happened after the previous world war where young men trained for war and out of a job sought the Legion.
No. They are the ones who came of their own free will, no one went to look for them.
At the time, when one joined the legion, the past was forgotten and, as today, a new identity is given by retaining the initials of the first and last name as well as their nationality. .
Most of the Germans serving in Indochina with the Foreign Legion were recruited when they were French prisoners of war. They were then released as POWs and sent to Indochina. Among these were Nazis (former SS and Waffen SS members etc.), but also many regular German soldiers. Regular ones mostly kept their identity and were offered a job in the French zone of occupation in Germany after their service in Indochina (or Algeria).
Unfortunately, english is not my native language. I try to say, that the easy way for French kill German soldiers - its was sent them to Indochina, where Vietnamese soldiers kill that Nazi. Because French cant kill Nazi during WW2, as another Allies. But of course, Frech good fight together Nazi, in Reichstag, for example.
No, the reason Hitler is so widely talked about is because he committed the first industrial-scale coordinated genocide. All those other examples you mentioned, while diabolical, were either not intended to exterminate the targeted groups or done on a significantly smaller scale than the Holocaust.
No the reason Hitler is so widely spoken about is because he was carrying out colonial practices and policies on Europeans. The Nazi killed less ppl than the French empire did. It’s that the ppl they targeted were seen as actual humans beings rather than some backwards savages that deserved it.
I’m no fan of Churchill, but no he didn’t… he done a lot of BS, but you understand the difference between killing innocent colonial subjects and killing Nazi’s and their sympathisers
Up until they wanted the moral victory, the Western Europeans treated the Jews worst than anyone else. For most of its existence, if an English king wanted to go to war, he’d take loans of Jewish moneylenders and when it was time to pay, they’d deport all Jews.
It's not about being conventional. It's about the goal and the mean. The germans invaded the Soviet Unions because they wanted to colonize the place, and put pretty much the same scale of racial value on the slaves than the french put on the asian in indochina.
When they conquered Alsace and Lorraines, the germans clearly saw those place and people to be integrated to their country. When they saw Russia, they saw it to integrate, exterminate and exploit.
The french weren't that different, maybe they didn't try to exterminate the asian, but they surely used the same method : they imposed their conquest on putting Catholics against budhist, they pushed the idea on the colonist that they were superiors on the asians people there while pillaging the country.
The germans did exactly that with Russias and other eastern countries.
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In 1972, I got my first remote contrôles car from a friend of my dad, and he was a former SS. Both met in Algeria in the 1950s while in the Foreign Legion. When I got my toy car, the guy was a mercenary
The Devils Guard is controversial
The only colonial power actually defeated on the field by a liberation movement, first at Cao Bang and then to Dien Bien Phu. There has never been a Dien Bien Phu of the English, Dutch, Americans, or Portuguese.
Battle of Saratoga
Do we have any numbers on this claim or even that one of these depicted men were such a thing?
The closest thing I’ve heard is that the percentage of German speakers rose sharply. But that’s the same that happened after the previous world war where young men trained for war and out of a job sought the Legion.
The anthem of the SS Division Charlemagne (Le chant du diable) is very close to the one of the French Foreign Legion (Le diable marche avec nous)
This french historian explain how it happen at the end of ww2 : https://youtu.be/_1x7CBQRrXg?t=260
The Soviets punished nazis, the west did everything they could to rehabilitate them and keep them in power.
Especially the Brits and US.
Nicely swept under the carpet.
How do we know the guys in this photo are SS? I’m pretty sure that dude in the back is black.
He’s a black nazi.
They just loved losing wars.
And you used to love skipping history classes.
like the US
How could the French army kill the SS and Nazi collaborators? It's simple. The French hired them and sent them to Indochina.
Hey, they're soldiers at least.
Nazi? Yes.
What China did to former Nationalist troops in Korea.
No. They are the ones who came of their own free will, no one went to look for them. At the time, when one joined the legion, the past was forgotten and, as today, a new identity is given by retaining the initials of the first and last name as well as their nationality. .
Most of the Germans serving in Indochina with the Foreign Legion were recruited when they were French prisoners of war. They were then released as POWs and sent to Indochina. Among these were Nazis (former SS and Waffen SS members etc.), but also many regular German soldiers. Regular ones mostly kept their identity and were offered a job in the French zone of occupation in Germany after their service in Indochina (or Algeria).
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Unfortunately, english is not my native language. I try to say, that the easy way for French kill German soldiers - its was sent them to Indochina, where Vietnamese soldiers kill that Nazi. Because French cant kill Nazi during WW2, as another Allies. But of course, Frech good fight together Nazi, in Reichstag, for example.
These posts give me a giggle, let’s not pretend the French weren’t doing Naziesque things for centuries before Hitler. And after sadly.
What the fuck does ‘Naziesque’ mean lol just say murderous or some shit
What Hitler did, Europe was doing for centuries. The only reason Hitler is so widely talked about is because he did it to Europeans.
Look at what Belgium did to Congo.
Look at how the French treated the Haitians.
Look at how the British treated the natives in America and Australia. Or literally how the Bengals were treated during the same era as WW2.
No, the reason Hitler is so widely talked about is because he committed the first industrial-scale coordinated genocide. All those other examples you mentioned, while diabolical, were either not intended to exterminate the targeted groups or done on a significantly smaller scale than the Holocaust.
Belgium killed millions in Congo. What are you talking about?
The British killed millions too, just under reported. You think that north America was as empty as the colonisers claim?
No the reason Hitler is so widely spoken about is because he was carrying out colonial practices and policies on Europeans. The Nazi killed less ppl than the French empire did. It’s that the ppl they targeted were seen as actual humans beings rather than some backwards savages that deserved it.
Are you dense? The NSDAP was in power for "only" 12 years. While the French colonial empire lasted for centurys.
And who killed more ppl. They were literally murdering ppl up until the 70’s and still contribute to the struggles now.
The racist scumbag Churchill, killed a lot more.
But OC we don't talk about those
I’m no fan of Churchill, but no he didn’t… he done a lot of BS, but you understand the difference between killing innocent colonial subjects and killing Nazi’s and their sympathisers
Kenians, Greeks, Indians and a whole list of others.
Nothing to do with "killing Nazi’s and their sympathisers".
If anything that Bastard loved nazis and was a racist
Was he Prime Minister during the mao mao uprising? And educate me about the Greeks I’m ignorant, but wish not to be.
You certainly are ignorant.
https://medium.com/@write_12958/the-crimes-of-winston-churchill-c5e3ecb229b3
"it's the Bengals fault they are starving to death, because they breed like rabbits"
While he was sending all their food to Britain.
Defo. He’s a piece of shit.
And have you ever wondered why so many Jews lived in Germany before the 1930's?
Other European countries treated them often far worse.
Up until they wanted the moral victory, the Western Europeans treated the Jews worst than anyone else. For most of its existence, if an English king wanted to go to war, he’d take loans of Jewish moneylenders and when it was time to pay, they’d deport all Jews.
The big majority of people that could Lend money at that time was jews because of church regulations.
Bastard French and Japan causing the famine killing 2 millions people
The irony of being condemned to loose ANOTHER colonial war...
What?
The German agenda for Ukraine was colonial. Germans were going to farm Ukraine, those Slavs not killed or deported would work as basically serfs.
There wasn't much difference between what the germans did in Russia and the French did in Indochina.
The germans had just to be more brutal because they were facing the russians on an equal footing, whatever they were saying about the untermensch.
This does not track. The cruelty of the war is not increased by it being conventional
You miss the point.
It's not about being conventional. It's about the goal and the mean. The germans invaded the Soviet Unions because they wanted to colonize the place, and put pretty much the same scale of racial value on the slaves than the french put on the asian in indochina.
When they conquered Alsace and Lorraines, the germans clearly saw those place and people to be integrated to their country. When they saw Russia, they saw it to integrate, exterminate and exploit.
The french weren't that different, maybe they didn't try to exterminate the asian, but they surely used the same method : they imposed their conquest on putting Catholics against budhist, they pushed the idea on the colonist that they were superiors on the asians people there while pillaging the country.
The germans did exactly that with Russias and other eastern countries.