tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21240636.post8954071308638900966..comments2024-03-21T17:13:34.747-07:00Comments on On the Contrary: “Holocaust survivor” self-mythologizingMichael Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09485741729327325322noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21240636.post-61979377764507577492010-11-23T19:54:35.051-08:002010-11-23T19:54:35.051-08:00Mr D'Armancault has asked this writer to post...Mr D'Armancault has asked this writer to post the following comment.<br /><br />***<br /><br />On Nov 17, 2010, at 0:48, Pierre D'Armancault wrote:<br /><br />This is a pretty remarkable story, considering that there was really nothing special about SS officers' "shirts" beyond the fact that they were only a plain, brown, collared men's shirt accented with a black tie.<br /><br />After 1935, when the distinctive black 4-pocket Allgemeine-SS tunic was introduced for all ranks, the shirts themselves bore no special outward insignia whatsoever. They were brown only to represent the SS' origins with the brown-shirted National Socialist Sturmabteilung, or SA - even after the Night of the Long Knives, which emasculated the SA, and accelerated the supremacy of the SS. Are we to understand that his wearing of a plain, brown, collared men's shirt set Mr. Greenfield apart as a "somebody?" If they were indeed the totalitarians we are asked to believe, the SS would have never allowed this to occur.<br /><br />Moreover, by the time Martin Greenfield would have landed in Auschwitz - after 1940, the SS personnel would have been wearing the gray wartime tunic as opposed to the black Allgemeine-SS tunic. (The Reichsfuehrer-SS, Heinrich Himmler, instituted the change from Allgemeine-SS black to Waffen-SS gray in 1938. Most of the leftover black uniform stock was sent to other countries like Norway for use by burgeoning SS-inspired units.) <br /><br />Even then, the SS personnel would have continued to wear only a plain, brown, collared men's shirt underneath the gray Waffen-SS tunic.<br /><br />I suppose that for Martin Greenfield to confuse an SS officer's "shirt" for an SS officer's "tunic" would be especially remarkable. But that is not here made at all clear. The SS officer's tunic was considerably heavier than was his actual shirt, being made of thick wool, and impossible to confuse, especially - we would expect - for such an "experienced" tailor, as is Mr. Greenfield, supposedly.<br /><br /> Just the same, are we to believe that the SS were really so lax about uniform regulations as to allow a Judaic prisoner - experienced tailor on no - the privilege of wearing insignia (namely, the SS runes) that was reserved for Aryans only? Heinrich Himmler refused the privilege of wearing runes to certain volunteer Waffen-SS regiments, such as those composed of Ukrainian and Hungarian recruits.<br /><br />Any brief consultation with an experienced WWII German militaria collector would debunk this ridiculous contention. It is just pure intellectual dishonesty on parade.Michael Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09485741729327325322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21240636.post-79050680816392727122010-11-16T18:38:38.043-08:002010-11-16T18:38:38.043-08:00"The Jews will sell you any dream you please ..."The Jews will sell you any dream you please for small change." --Juvenal, SatiresDamienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10243828494487526251noreply@blogger.com