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Russia releases archives exposing Latvian Waffen-SS atrocities in WWII (www.rt.com)

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[–] nomoesyankho@lemmy.wtf 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

France instantly capitulated to the Nazis.

I mean they were quite beat up.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

France fought back a little and then hit ff15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_22_June_1940

Hiter hated communists. The reason France Belgium and the Netherlands capitulated was because the majority of their population was not the Nazi target. The USSR however was.

[–] nomoesyankho@lemmy.wtf 3 points 21 hours ago

I know. My grand-grandpa wanted to enlist in the volonteers to go work in germany to support the war effort against the big bad reds.

Good thing his wife told him he was never seeing her again if he did that.

It's not a branch of my family i'm very proud of lmao. Bunch of child beating assholes