tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297549309133124511.post7426296270089090005..comments2024-02-22T09:23:37.603+01:00Comments on Lars Gyllenhaal: Koreans in German WWII ServiceLars Gyllenhaalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17851097994709218280noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297549309133124511.post-69024637542837576972013-02-15T19:43:23.975+01:002013-02-15T19:43:23.975+01:00Thanks Leif! You are right about Western Europeans...Thanks Leif! You are right about Western Europeans who donned German uniforms - most SS-uniforms and a minority Heer or NSKK-uniforms. Most of these men were volunteers. However, if you instead look at the Russians, Ukrainians and Balts in German uniform you will find that many of them were not very keen to join and had joined e.g. for the sake of food. A great number of the Balts had been conscripted. Cheers, LarsLars Gyllenhaalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17851097994709218280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297549309133124511.post-1057513067586150012013-02-09T19:47:02.070+01:002013-02-09T19:47:02.070+01:00Perhaps understandingly, there are few movies told...Perhaps understandingly, there are few movies told from the german point of view. It would be impossible to make a movie gloryfying german soldiers, well, because it would look like nazi propaganda. Therefore any such movies have to depict the soldiers as reluctantly fighting for themselves, their comrades, and perhaps mother germany, but not the nazis. They invariably end in disaster with most of the characters dead or maimed. <br /><br />A movie about foreigners in german service immediately hits upon the problem that most are volunteers... some of them even believing in the nazi cause. And that is a big problem. Laffehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125733864107467243noreply@blogger.com