Quote Originally Posted by SwedishFish View Post
"Punishment camps" seem to be more of an understatement, however.
It wasn't the best way to put it, but it is technically true and not automatically pro-nazi.



The SS was responsible for many of the atrocities committed, and I hope you don't deny that. SS-Totenkopfverbände. The Einsatzgruppen, the death squads, that went out exclusively to kill undesirables. The SS was more of the political arm of the Wermacht, it's recruits, if I recall, had to be of Aryan descent, and pledge loyalty to the Nazi Party. Many of it's officers were well known Nazis.
Tuff made good points. There were many honorable SS soldiers.


More of a revenge by the Soviets. And I cannot blame them. But trying to compare the Holocaust to this is plain silly.
Not sure how that is silly. It was a state sponsored ethnic cleansing like any other.