I assumed he volunteered to join the SS. What did he think they did? ..................................... Many who did not perform their duties in the Waffen SS were sent to the camps as guards. It was a punishment assignment, if you refused, they’d hang you in the court yard as an example. The SS had very strict rules, no place for Pajama boys. I recently read a book about the guy who captured Hoess. “Hanns and Rudolf” by Thomas Harding.(2013)
That’s also the reason I think it was wrong to go after Demjanjuk. He was a captured Red Army soldier. His choice basically was to work as a guard or to be killed.
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