Well no that s not what I was trying to get across at all especially since the Waffen SS was absolutely positively not a branch of the Armed Forces Wehrmacht I was simply pointing out that direct translations even of cognates doesn t always work for example we use engineers to translate both Ingenieure and Pioniere pioneers in that sense is found archaically but is misleading today Waffe is cognate with weapon but also means a branch with weapons not unlike English arm hence Luftwaffe and for that matter the more comfortable Armed SS as opposed to the more cognate Weapon SS