"But what was the Waffen SS really? You won't find out from reading the `Times' or its cohorts in disinformation." "By 1941 it was obvious to Europeans--but not Americans--that for Europe it was heads or tails; communism or anti-communism; Josef Stalin or Adolph Hitler. Stalin and his Bolshevik horde were ready to pick up the pieces--which they of course eventually did, with the help of the United States." "In this atmosphere, thousands of young men made up their minds that the destiny of their native country was at stake. They would volunteer their lives to fight communism and create a unified Europe." "In all, they would grow to be more than 600,000 non-German Europeans fighting mostly on the Eastern Front--not, as the `New York Times' would have you believe, organized to stave off the Allied invasion of D-Day. The non-German anti-communists eventually numbered in the scores of divisions." "The Waffen SS were ideological and military shock troops of a new unified Europe. The Germans, numbering 400,000 were actually the minority." "EUROPEAN ARMY" "The one million-strong Waffen SS represented the first truly European army to ever exist. After the war each unit of this army was to provide its people with a political structure free of the petty nationalism of the past. All the SS fought the same struggle. All shared the same worldview. All became comrades in arms." "It was the most important political and military phenomenon of World War II--and also the least known. And many of the Waffen SS died, on the vast and lonely Russian steppe, in the rubble-strewn alleys of Budapest and Berlin, in a thousand other places unmarked and forgotten. The last organized resistance in Berlin, in fact, was the French Charlemagne Division." "They came from every country of Europe including Belgium and France, Bosnia and Herzogovina, Romania and Hungary, from Holland and Greece and everywhere young men were willing to sacrfice their lives to fight Godless communism." "Why did they do it? Leon Degrelle, commander of the Wallonian Division of the Waffen SS, said it was to preserve `the Europe of Virgil and Ronsard, the Europe of Erasmus and Nietzsche, of Raphael and Durer, the Europe of Igantius and Saint Theresa, of Frederick the Great and Napoleon'."