To: jalisco555
He could easily have volunteered for front line service. I am guessing that you didn't read the article. He was wounded on the Russian front by a grenade. His company commander and the medical staff ruled him unfit for active duty. He was transferred to the camp as a guard rather than being discharged.
72 posted on
04/29/2016 7:54:27 AM PDT by
GingisK
To: GingisK
Makes it a little harder to do-si-do out of it, huh.
Depending on one’s attitude, this was considered a shitty job or a plum job. He might have wished he had been fighting on a front, who knows? he was possibly never asked.
77 posted on
04/29/2016 7:59:05 AM PDT by
HiTech RedNeck
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To: GingisK
I am guessing that you didn't read the article. He was wounded on the Russian front by a grenade. His company commander and the medical staff ruled him unfit for active duty. He was transferred to the camp as a guard rather than being discharged. You're right, I read the article too quickly and missed that. My bad. However, given the fact that no German serviceman was ever punished for refusing to kill Jews I strongly suspect he could have found another rear echelon assignment if he had requested it.
81 posted on
04/29/2016 8:00:54 AM PDT by
jalisco555
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