Did you know that retrained Waffen-SS
soldiers guarded the Nuremberg war trials? Probably not, and neither did I.
This YouTube clip tells the weird story.
It turns out that the Waffen-SS units
were Estonian and Latvian, mostly the former. At least some of their members hadn´t volunteered for service in the Nazi German military. This provided the United States
with a suitable loophole to pardon all Baltic Waffen-SS soldiers stranded in
the Allied occupation zones of Germany after World War II. Some were then
retrained by the Americans to guard the premises in Nürnberg where the war trials
were held. The fact that the ex-SS fighters spoke German was an important reason
for the assignment. Another reason was that many American soldiers had either
been sent home or were needed at other locations in Germany.
My main problem
with this clip is the monotonous voice of the narrator, which makes my ears almost
hurt after a couple of minutes!
But that´s me.
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