There is a bizarre fascination with the Waffen SS in some quarters - the type of people who are impressed by black uniforms! Most in the ranks were heavily indoctrinated, fully signed up Nazis and they were certainly prepared to die for the cause. Alongside went involvement in any number of atrocities against anyone who got in their way ... too many to mention in the East, but of British troops in France 1940, Canadians in Normandy 1944, and Americans at Malmedy and Wereth (Black troops tortured and killed) during the Battle of the Bulge 1944. Some people don't know the full story or don't want to remember.
The Waffen SS were really Bad Dudes. Why are they so worshipped by WW2 Fanboys?
Morally awful, often good fighters. One can be both. Nobody should be worshipped, though
There is a bizarre fascination with the Waffen SS in some quarters - the type of people who are impressed by black uniforms! Most in the ranks were heavily indoctrinated, fully signed up Nazis and they were certainly prepared to die for the cause. Alongside went involvement in any number of atrocities against anyone who got in their way ... too many to mention in the East, but of British troops in France 1940, Canadians in Normandy 1944, and Americans at Malmedy and Wereth (Black troops tortured and killed) during the Battle of the Bulge 1944. Some people don't know the full story or don't want to remember.