I know some hardcore operators who simply would have killed anyone trying to force them to do anything like this. Yes, killed.
What a travesty (if true).
Three decades ago my husband’s initiation into his unit was pretty... we’ll just say that it was not good. Not this bad, but not good.
Hazing used to be pretty normal for the hardcore.
It sounds a little too "perfect", doesn't it? Like propaganda.
Photographs could've been staged.
Depends on der Spiegel's source. And, of course, they're not revealing that.