I was recently watching the old 90s second world war film epic saving Private Ryan. Now as we know the film centers around a squad of United States Army second rangers that are used buy a command to basically find and extract the surviving brother from a collection of brothers that were all killed largely during the fighting of the war. Real world history shows this to be a parallel from what happened following the Sullivan brothers when they were all killed when their naval ship went down. But I’m getting slightly off-topic here.

There is a seam in the early part of the film where to background GIs are approaching a pair of men wearing German uniforms. One of the men is saying something frantically in a foreign language. After trying to communicate a bit one of the GIs says that he can’t understand him and then shoots both men. He and his partner then go over to the now dead soldiers and the one who shot them asks his partner what they said. His partner then goes on to make a cruel joke of saying that he believed the soldier that was speaking to them essentially told them that he had washed for supper.

If you use close captions when watching the scene you see that the frantic soldier is speaking in Czech. Now I could be wrong because I do know that early in the war the Germans did use equipment built in Czechoslovakia. For instance the Panzer 38t was that of a Czechoslovakian design if I recall correctly. But unless I’m getting my information mixed up I don’t recall Czechoslovakia being an ally of Germany like say Romania was.

Did the Germans ever actually use fighting age individuals from other countries and essentially force them to fight for them?

I don’t know if this is even a question that falls in line with this particular group. But I can’t really think of anywhere else to post it. And since I’m currently in Facebook jail as they call it I can’t post it on a Facebook group. If anyone has any information on this I would be grateful. If not at the very least be kind enough to point me in the right direction. Thank you for your time and thank you for reading my overblown message.