https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-soros-ss-nazi-germany/
That Soros was only nine years old (born in 1930) when the war broke out and all of 14 when Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945 hasn’t dampened his detractors’ enthusiasm for spreading these rumors, including the absurd claim, which first surfaced in November 2016, that Soros literally served as an officer of the paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) in Germany.
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17405784/george-soros-not-a-nazi-trump
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17405784/george-soros-not-a-nazi-trump
So yes, George Soros is a billionaire with ties to
progressive causes. But he is not a Nazi. Or a Nazi sympathizer. At all.
Despite what one might see on Twitter (or Reddit or Facebook) — or even
hear from members of Congress. When one Republican Congress member suggested to Vice News
that Soros had funded the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville,
VIrginia, last summer in an effort to discredit the right, he made sure
to add that Soros ”turned in his own people to the Nazis.”
https://apnews.com/afs:Content:2336951905
https://apnews.com/afs:Content:2336951905
CLAIM: Democratic philanthropist George Soros was a Nazi soldier
AP’S
ASSESSMENT: False. A photo said to be George Soros as a Nazi soldier is
actually a photo of Oskar Groening, a former SS sergeant at Auschwitz
Birkenau, the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, operated
from 1940-1945 in Poland.
THE
FACTS: A photo circulating widely on Facebook is not Soros, but a young
Oskar Groening, a former SS sergeant who became known as the
“Accountant of Auschwitz.,” according to information provided to The
Associated Press by the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in
Poland.
Soros,
who was just 9-years-old when Hitler’s army invaded Poland, was not a
member of the Nazi party, despite what the photo said. Soros, who is
Jewish and Hungarian, was 15 during the Nazi occupation of Hungary. He
would have been too young to join the Hitler Youth, an organization that
recruited and trained 16- and 17-year-old boys to fight.
According
to false information with the photo, Soros was an SS in the National
Socialist German workers party and served under Adolf Hitler and
Heinrich Himmler. The information also claimed,”He said it was the best
time of his life. The destruction and agony around him was euphoric to
him.”
Soros did
not say that the destruction and agony was “euphoric” to him. This quote
derives from Groening’s testimony in 2015, when he said his enthusiasm
for the Nazi objective had evolved into “euphoria.”