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Fidel Castro Hired Nazi SS To Train Military, German Intel Documents Reveal -- FOX News
In 1962, then President of Cuba, Fidel Castro recruited two former Nazi SS soldiers to help train his military at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, according to declassified documents released by Germany's secret intelligence agency, the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst).
Castro invited four SS officers to Havana, where he offered them quadruple the average salary a German made at that time in exchange for their expertise. Two of the four accepted his offer, the documents, dated October 26, 1962, reveal.
The men served in Adolf Hitler's Waffen-SS, a force separate from the army and known as the armed wing of the Nazi party.
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My Comment: My father was in the Soviet army and fought against the Nazis in the Second World War. As far as he was concerned .... the Waffen SS were the most ruthless and effective soldiers that he had ever met .... both during and after the war. The fact that Fidel Castro wanted to hire the best .... why should that surprise us. And if my father was alive today .... he would say that if he was in Castro's shoes .... he would probably have done the same thing.
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