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To: American Spirit who wrote (470515)	10/3/2003 1:59:04 PM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 769670

Brown shirts were not cops they were part of the SA and later were merged with the SD into the SS. His father was a small-town policeman, applied to become a member of Hitler's National Socialist Party in 1938 and enlisted into the German army on April 28, 1939, according to documents held at the state archives in Vienna and Berlin. His war record shows that he joined the military police unit 521 and took part in the invasions of Poland and France before serving on the Russian front during the siege of Leningrad in September 1941. In February 1944, Schwarzenegger senior successfully applied to be discharged from the army, stating that he had been wounded and was suffering from malaria. By the way, the laws in Annexed Austria made military service in the Wehrmacht compulsory and not something people just willingly joined. If you didn't "join" it was a serious crime with severe consequences. Military police, also called "Feldgendarmerie" were used to enforce military law and justice in the field with front-line Infantry and Armored divisions of the Wehrmacht. commondreams.org