Werewolves are like other humans in wanting better living conditions, but are always crushed down by ever encroaching human civilization and the demands of magical bureaus. We won't even let them have the woods. The shanties that they are forced into are at the behest of humans are the result of oppressive economical and sociological conditions, unmeetable demands, and endless beratement and discrimination. A human can shoot a werewolf without punishment, but if a werewolf bites in self defense they're risking the safety of their whole colony. It's an extraordinarily difficult state to exist in considering no measures are in place to keep humans from wandering into werewolf territory. Of course, it doesn't help that a lot of government officials are in the pockets of vampires who have accumulated more than enough wealth over several lifetimes to practically buy misery for the werewolf demographics just so they can get their voyeuristic, antediluvian jollies.
The Nazis offered werewolf colonies an immediate reprieve and a place in society. We know now that the plan was to eventually do genocide on the werewolves as well after extensive unethical experimentation, but at the time the werewolves were starving, homeless, and desperate. Meanwhile, macbeth over here saying that werewolves enlisting in the SS fits their historical pattern. More, it fits the historical pattern of humans exploiting the conditions they've created for their own various cousins and offshoot subspecies.
That said, military service presented as a form of climbing the ladder of society is odiferous and profoundly American. We should be moving away from Heinlein realities, not towards them.
Addendum: to this date, there has never been a confirmed* werewolf in a significant position of power. It is however theorized that Himmler was actually a shadow ferret who was exiled from the changeling realm by the Unseelie Court for being Too Creepy. He probably played a major role in bringing desperate enclaves of werewolves into the fold.
*Hitler, for (previously-mentioned) example, made extensive use of wolf symbolism, but historians contend he was just a massive wannabe.(actually had to dig for this gif. i think
the bunker is being scrubbed from the internet)
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Himmler (left), black-footed ferret (right)
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