I've seen the "image," which is only a photograph of his (purported) father in a Wehrmacht uniform. The Wehrmacht was the army of the Third Reich; it was not the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), or the "brownshirts/stormtroopers" The SD was a domestic paramilitary Nazi organization whose purpose was to influence German domestic politics by way of coercive action. Their operations were from the early 1920s to the early 1930s. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he had the SD disbanded with prejudice (many leaders were shot). They were present only in Germany, not Austria. The Austrian Anschluss did not come until 1938, after which Austrian civilians were subject to conscription into the Wehrmacht.
This claim is ignorant arm waving. There is no point in being stupid, so we should just move on.
I've seen the "image," which is only a photograph of his (purported) father in a Wehrmacht uniform. The Wehrmacht was the army of the Third Reich; it was not the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), or the "brownshirts/stormtroopers" The SD was a domestic paramilitary Nazi organization whose purpose was to influence German domestic politics by way of coercive action. Their operations were from the early 1920s to the early 1930s. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he had the SD disbanded with prejudice (many leaders were shot). They were present only in Germany, not Austria. The Austrian Anschluss did not come until 1938, after which Austrian civilians were subject to conscription into the Wehrmacht.
This claim is ignorant arm waving. There is no point in being stupid, so we should just move on.