“It’s ridiculous to charged basically a kid at the time with no agency in the Nazi regime.
If he had a choice it was either being a guard or the Russian front.”
Yup—the “holier than thou” attitude around here gets very irritating.
I would bet every poster here would have acted the same as that kid if put in the identical situation.
The guards were told “shoot or you will be shot”.
I doubt he ever fired his gun. Given he’s charged with 3000 deaths, that’s alot of shooting even for a front line soldier on the Russian front who used human wages to overcome German positions.
The prosecutor is pulling numbers outta his ass to shock the German public.
Given that in the Korean and Vietnam wars, captive soldiers were convicted of war crimes by their captors, guess it would have been alright for them to execute our boys?
Yep...”holier than thou”