Death Head Question

Roadkill · 06-11-2002, 07:07 PM

The SS were not a part of the Federal German military system therefore their weapons and equipment procurement were outside of the standard
Wehrmacht supply. A good example is if George Wallace would have been elected president, then he elevated the Alabama Army National Guard to a status equal with and in many cases more powerful than the US Army. All officers would be political appointees based on prior support to George and answerable only to other appointees in the same system. Then they would start their own parallel prison system without the benefit of federal/state courts and staff it with appointes answerable only to GW. GW would take funds from the US Army for pay and weapons for his army. Throw in the "fog of war" and its very difficult to determine real SS weapons from others. Any gun of that era might or might not be. The SS swore allegience only to AH, not the government. He never, and with good reason,trusted the Wehrmacht hierarchy.

RK

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06-11-2002, 07:07 PM	#3
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,634 Thanks: 1 Thanked 28 Times in 17 Posts	The SS were not a part of the Federal German military system therefore their weapons and equipment procurement were outside of the standard Wehrmacht supply. A good example is if George Wallace would have been elected president, then he elevated the Alabama Army National Guard to a status equal with and in many cases more powerful than the US Army. All officers would be political appointees based on prior support to George and answerable only to other appointees in the same system. Then they would start their own parallel prison system without the benefit of federal/state courts and staff it with appointes answerable only to GW. GW would take funds from the US Army for pay and weapons for his army. Throw in the "fog of war" and its very difficult to determine real SS weapons from others. Any gun of that era might or might not be. The SS swore allegience only to AH, not the government. He never, and with good reason,trusted the Wehrmacht hierarchy. RK