Reply #47: Here's an article with quite a bit more detail... [View All]

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Schwarzenegger's father was a nazi!
<http://articles.ww2.klup.info/?art=186>

"One document in particular shows that Gustav Schwarzenegger was indeed a member of the Sturmabteilungen, also known as the “storm troopers” or brownshirts.” He joined the SA on May 1, 1939 according to the entry in the archive file — about six months after the storm troopers helped launch Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass, when Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were attacked across Germany and Austria and thousands of Jews were hauled off to concentration camps. The records contain no other information about his activities with the SA.

This information is 'negative' though membership of the SA is no crime in itself, as is membership of the Gestapo or the SS. Arnold is not proud of the fact that his father was a member of the SA. According to Hier, Arnold should not be held responsible for the acts of his father.

It is not possible to draw conclusions about what Gustav Schwarzenegger did with the SA, said Ursula Schwarz, a researcher with the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance. At the same time she noted, one had to apply to join the SA, unlike, say, the German army, which Austrian males were required to join after their country was annexed in 1938. The Austrian documents also show that Gustav Schwarzenegger served with German Army units that saw some of the most brutal bloodshed of World War II, including the invasions of Poland and France and the German rampage through Russia and the siege of Leningrad. As a military policeman, he appears to have been in theaters of the war where atrocities were committed by the army. But there is no way to know from the documents whether he played a role.

According to the records, Gustav Schwarzenegger received a great deal of medical attention, and may have been wounded. At some point he contracted malaria. He left the army in 1943. The Austrian archives also include the papers, part of a so-called de-Nazification process, that in 1947 determined he could work for the postwarstate because no specific war crimes had been attributed to him. He worked as a police officer in Austria until his death in 1972."

MY NOTE: Although it is not currently possible to know what Gustav did between 1939 and 1945, it is possible to know the general responsibilities of such units. The police units described above followed behind the advancing German armies, and were usually charged with the detention and immediate execution of those people considered to be undesirables. People falling into that category were Jews, gypsies, village leaders, teachers, doctors, Russian commissars, Russian POWs, etc. By the end of WWII, more than 20 million Russian civilians had died, quite a few from the efforts of the SS, SA, and military police units. Those deaths were over and above the deaths of the 6 million Jews and nearly 4 million Poles in the Nazi concentration camps.

And here's a LA Times .pdf article that has a photo of Gustav:
<http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/national/20030909/20030909A13.pdf>