What unit is this black african apart of?

>>64033025 (OP)
Gotta be SS right? Going by the fella with the older style helmet

>>64033025 (OP)
Argentine Volksperonist Gefreiters - Division SS Tawantinsuyu

>>64033042
>>64033042
I think it's the Free Arabian Legion

>>64033025 (OP)
I'm slightly irritated that you didn't use image search.
French republic has it listed on their archive: https://imagesdefense.gouv.fr/fr/volontaires-au-garde-a-vous-pendant-une-ceremonie-de-prestation-de-serment-1.html
>The report shows the swearing-in and presentation of flags to the Arab volunteer units serving in the German ranks.
So >>64033048 seems correct with his assumption that it is the Free Arabian Legion.

>>64033042
Argies WISH they were this "white".

>>64033080
Why did they let blacks fight why didn't they just kill them?

>>64033135
Because it was worthwhile?
Ideologically they didn't care for blacks but neither were they specifically singled out for persecution.
Afaik there were instances of them executing black french soldiers but they never had any issues with recruiting all kinds of ethnicities to free up manpower or otherwise get strategic advantages.
See the Indian and Arab volunteers which were basically forces of aligned "potential governemnts" which could counter the existing rule.

>>64033025 (OP)

Free Arabian Legion or one of its offshoots most likely

>>64033039
>Gotta be SS right?

They're all wearing Heer decals (Reichsadler with the swastika) on their helmets so no.

>>64033135
>Why did they let blacks fight why didn't they just kill them?

During the 1940 French campaign, they regularly did. But there were still a huge chunk of them who wound up as POWs and resentment of French and British colonialism was absolutely rampant among them, many were also willing take up arms for the German cause purely to have better living conditions.

>>64033169
>Afaik there were instances of them executing black french soldiers but they never had any issues with recruiting all kinds of ethnicities to free up manpower or otherwise get strategic advantages.

The three ethnicities that the Germans considered racially off-limits for impressment were

>Jews (go figure, it's a genocidal antisemitic ideology after all)
>Poles (Germans seemed to have a massive a massive hateboner for Poles at the time, even anti-Nazis like von Stauffenberg absolutely detested independent Poland and wanted it destroyed)
>Gypsies (after 1942)

Everyone else they came up with some sort of ideological cope for recruiting ("Ackshully, Croats and Ukrainians are descendants of ancient Aryans..."). Worth keeping in mind though that these people were still considered fundamentally inferior and had Germany won and the Nazi ideology remained unreformed, they wouldn't even be considered citizens, let alone second-class ones.

>>64033317
>Poles
Even that wasn't completely the case with them, both depending on time and person.
Pre-war the, I think foreign office, published statements that included slavs as part of the Aryan group. During the war there were at least cases of children being intended for germanization.

>>64033346
>In the Obersalzberg Speech delivered on 22 August 1939, just before the invasion of Poland, Hitler gave explicit permission to his commanders to murder "without pity or mercy, all men, women, and children of Polish descent or language

>>64033025 (OP)
The SS Argentinian volunteer regiment.

>>64033042
lmao I can't fucking believe someone made the joke before me

>>64033346
>Pre-war the, I think foreign office, published statements that included slavs as part of the Aryan group. During the war there were at least cases of children being intended for germanization.

While that is true (and kidnapping of Polish children with German features like blond hair was rampant btw), I was speaking specifically in regards to recruitment (voluntary or otherwise) into the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS. Poles at the start of the were off-limits with the exception of ethnic Germans on the Volksliste (pic related). Later in the war, the Wehrmacht reversed this policy somewhat and did conscript some Poles into its ranks, but they were still forbidden from forming their own ethnic formations like how Ukrainians (Galicia division) and Croats/Bosnians (Handschar division) did and regarded as untrustworthy.

>>64033317
Poles were recruited under the guise of actually being german aka volksdeutsch. Which was so obviously a farce that "volksdeutsch" came to mean "traitor" in polish.

>>64033025 (OP)
Netflix's Mein Kampf

>>64033367
Which (1) is completely irrelevant for what I said and (2) also has the issue that multiple imperfect version of that speech exist with afaik no consensus which are accurate.
>Ob die in C enthaltene schwerwiegende Wendung, das Ziel des deutschen Angriffs auf Polen sei die „Beseitigung der lebendigen Kräfte" Polens, in dieser Form gefallen ist, kann auch im Lichte unseres heutigen Wissens nicht mit Bestimmtheit gesagt werden.
>Die verschiedenartige Wiedergabe dieser Wendung in den bisher bekannten wie in den im Anhang erstmalig veröffentlichten Versionen legt vielmehr nahe, daß Hitler sich in diesem Punkt mißverständlich ausgedrückt hat.
>t. ifz-muenchen

>>64033427
>I was speaking specifically in regards to recruitment
Fair.
I was mainly thinking along he lines of it not necessarily being restricted pre-war, or well being quite diffuse, and with "germanized" children obviously being exempt as exemplary for how flexible their doctrine ultimately was when it came to these things.