WW II could we have won without the Muslims?

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Quiz question:
Many Hurricanes flew in WWII adorned with swastikas - why was this?

Just finnish looking at google so interesting answer if it's now what I'm thinking.

 

[8ace]

Just finnish looking at google so if interesting answer if it's now what I'm thinking.

Yes that was it, a bit shocked when I first saw a picture.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

There was a Muslim division of the Waffen SS.

There was a British SS unit too.

 

[8ace]

There was a British SS unit too.

Indeed there was.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Yes that was it, a bit shocked when I first saw a picture.

 

[8ace]

 

[beorhthelm]

Quiz question:
Many Hurricanes flew in WWII adorned with swastikas - why was this?

presumably captured or recovered.

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

short answer NO

 

[GOM]

What an absolutely ridiculous question by the OP.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Reading about the Chatri I saw that the reason the pavillion was used as a hospital (strange choice) was so that film of the Indian soldiers being nursed there could be sent back to India showing that the King had given up his palace for wounded Indians and so helping with the recruitment drive

Bloody spin doctors

 

[Danny-Boy]

There was a Muslim division of the Waffen SS.

Crumbs, they must have turned their noses up at the food they were given. Germans are MAD for pork.

 

[Danny-Boy]

presumably captured or recovered.

Yes I think the Germans got a few in the Western Desert which were abandoned or crashed and repaired.

We captured an FW 190 which was very useful as it could outfly a Spitfire but very few were made fortunately.

 

[Dandyman]

There was a Muslim division of the Waffen SS.

There a Bosnian Muslim SS Division started by that murderous thug the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, 10% of whom were actually Roman Catholics and who were commanded by Germans.

If you want to give it some context you can consider the other fascist foreigners below:

Albanian: 6,500 in the 21st SS Division
Belgian: 13,000 Flemish in the 5th SS Div., 27th SS Div.
Belgium: 6,000 Walloons 5th SS Div., 28th SS Div.
British Commonwealth (English): 100 in the The British Freikorps
Bulgaria: 700 in the Bulgarisches Reg.
Croatia (includes Bosnian Muslims): 20,000 in the 7th SS Div., 13th SS Hanshar Div., 23rd SS Div.
Denmark: 6,000 in Frikorps Danmark, 11th SS Div.
India: 2,500 in the Volunteer Legion
Estonia: 30,000 in the 20th SS Div.
Finland: 1,500 in a Volunteer Battalion.
Hungary: 40,000 in the 25th SS Div., 26th SS Div. and 33rd SS Div.
Latvia: 60,000 in the Latvian Legion.
Netherlands: 25,000 in the 23rd SS Div., 34th SS Div.
Norway: 6,000 in the 5th SS Div., 6th SS Div., 11th SS Div.
France: 9,000 in the 33rd SS Div.
Italy: 10,000 in the 29th SS Div.
Portuguese Volunteers attached, mainly, to the Spanish Blue Division (250th Infantry Division)
Russian (Belarusian): 15,000 29th SS Div., 30th SS Div.
Russian (Cossack): 40,000 in the 1st Cossack Div.
Russian (Turkic): 10,000 in Ostürkische SS, Tatarische SS
Romania: 6,000 in Waffen-Grenadierregiment der SS (1st Romanian)
Serbia: 15,000 in Volunteer Corps
Spain: 18,000 in the Blue Division and in the later stages of the war (namely the Battle of Berlin) in two separated companies - Spanische-Freiwilligen-Kompanie der SS 101 and SS 102.
Sweden, Switzerland and Luxemburg: 3,000 5th SS Div., 11th SS Div.
Ukraine: 20,000 in the 14th SS Div.

 

[jakarta]

Read The Most Dangerous Enemy by Steven Bungay if you want to know why the Allies won the Second World War but to sum it up:

1. We survived the Battle of Britain
2. The Russian Red Army destroyed the Wehrmacht
3. The USA had the most powerful economy which overwhelmed what was left of Germany

or

We gave our time, The Russians gave their lives, The Yanks gave (but mostly made) their money

Muslims on either side were insignificant

 

[daveinprague]

Only the waffen ss could've accepted other nationalities. They utilised the Bosnians against their traditional Serb enemies.
Vlasovs Army (Nationlist Ukrainians) helped liberate Prague during the uprising, when they switched sides and made available their heavy weapons. Allied forces handed them over to the soviets which didnt go well for them.

 

[Buzzer]

Only the waffen ss could've accepted other nationalities.

Really? The RAF had loads and loads of pilots from Czechoslovakia, Poland, Rhodesia, South Africa, Canada etc etc etc.

 

[daveinprague]

Isnt that Hurricane in Finnish colours (captured from from or by the soviets?)

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

the americans primary interest was destorying japan,europe was really a side show

nagasaki and hiroshima bore the brunt of american power

as would of the germans,if the russians and british had failed

 

[churley1]

Some Brits have a serious problem accepting that the US played a huge part in our success in WW2.

 

[Don Quixote]

What "won" the war was the fact that Hitler was too stupid to invade Britain so the USA had somewhere to land their bombs and planes and men to attack Germany.