Asians in the Nazi ranks

With the shortage of soldier the Third Reich needed more boots on the ground. They recuited non-arians into there rank.

There were quite a few Asian in the German army. NOt just Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. That is odd.

One of the Chinese soldiers that was within the Nazi Army was the son of chinese nationalist leader Chiagng Kai Shek, Chiang Wei Guo. He was a lieutentant and particiapted in the invation of Poland in 1939.

 

Can you provide more details please?

 

Pretty much a well known fact that the Germany military,especially the Waffen SS, had quite a few NON-Aryan troops. Ya might want to do a search of the threads on the subject. It has been discussed here quite a bit and there is alot of information to be found here on the subject.

 

They also had 59 brits... The ENGLISH FREI corps in the Waffen SS... Wonder if they had any turncoat cowardly american Dogs in the SS... anyone have info on americans wearing the "Deaths head"

 

NOOOOO!!!!!! Don't bring that up again!!! LOL. There is another poster who is totally enamored of that unit.

 

that poster who is enamoured by cowardly turncoated traitors sure as hell aint me.. like i said before they should have SHOT the bastards

 

http://www.ww2f.com/wwii-general/22820-british-free-corps.html

 

I know about the frei corps I wana know if Any americans formed such an outift and if so any of em living and home addresses of those members please... I am feeling mean today LOL

 

that is weird man non aryans in the german army

 

Why is it weird? They were desperate. And as I stated earlier a well known fact. Did you think they were all just blonde haired, blue eyed, Supermen?

 

Sturmtruppen, look at this recent thread: http://www.ww2f.com/battle-europe/22188-korean-soldiers-normandy.html

Also:

 

I saw this for sale the other day (300$) . It's the first time ever I saw this German Azad Hind Award. mention on the back "Liberty fight for India" in German

 

Interesting-looking medal. Thanx Skipper!

 

The symbols of the Indian Empire united. Hindusm, the Tiger of Bengale and the green ribbon representing the Islam minority (now Pakistan) .

The reverse is representing the sun trying to shine through a broken prison that symbolises the British administration.

 

Cheers, many of these men were captured in Britanny when they couldn't retreat further west. According to the locals, some had brought their own little horses and some behaved like criminals, looting and raping, to the point that the Germans had to stop them and station them in smaller units where they had no contact with women, except prostitutes. I have the testimony from a former Resistant who was locked up near Vannes , a German would post letters for his familly because he thought the asian guards were too hard with the prisonners.

 

Information sometimes comes in books, even if most people forget about that. Here's one: Amazon.com: Forgotten Legions: Obscure Combat Formations of the Waffen-SS: Antonio Munoz: Books



Here's a well known photo, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, reviewing the 13.Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS "Handschar" (kroat.Nr.1)

 

How well , I've heard worse. A nice anecdote: some soldiers were caught in 1944 with Soviet rifles that they took with them when they were "Liberated" by the advancing German troops in 1941 and chose to volunteer in German units.