im a nazi

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  The only reason black troops were allowed to fight the Nazis was when the Army had severe manpower shortages in certain areas.  It was not official policy.  

"For James Strawder, one of more than 2,000 black soldiers who answered Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's call for black volunteers to replace white soldiers killed during the Battle of Bulge, the final indignity came after Germany's surrender, when the volunteers were immediately transferred back to all-black labor units as their white comrades in arms were being sent home or given more dignified assignments."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55650-2004May25.html

The US treated white Nazi soldiers better than it treated its own black troops.  It was two racist regimes fighting each other to see who was going to be the top racist.  The title went to the US.
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No argument with this.

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Yeah, as I said, the US practiced institutionalized racism. My point was that blacks did indeed fight the NaZis, no matter the rationale.

Although the 332nd wasn't formed from a shortage of pilots, but rather at the behest of Eleanor Roosevelt, iirc, after talking with the heads of the NAACP.