I find it pretty unfair to call him a Nazi and "Waffen-SS fanatic". Have you read the article? He was 15 when we wanted to go to the submarine service, but instead he was sent to the Waffen-SS. He grew up brainwashed under the regime. Especially the young teenagers - who knew nothing else but Nazism - were the dumbest: still fighting for da Fuhrer while others got a grasp and dropped arms.
You couldn't get "drafted" into the Waffen-SS. You joined the order of the Order of the Deaths Head, there were no conscripts.
Yep.
He grew up brainwashed under the regime.
Sorry, his story sounds way too much like Kurt Waldheim's and countless others. He knew what the SS was all about, and I'm not buying his convenient excuses. Lot's of Germans made a pretty seamless transition from Nazism to Marxism - and there's a reason for that.