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Originally Posted by crockett
I was reading up a bit about Nazis and Russians in WW2.. This was part of a letter written by a German soldier on the front lines to his father.
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then maybe you should read more about 8 years of Nazi propaganda machine brainwashing wehrmacht and SS soldiers. To that part, that when they shot a Pole, Jew or some Slav they didnt see a human, but subhuman... just to be shot.
That would explain your letters from German soldiers and their attitude towards conquered lands on the east.
You should also not forget that these "joy divisions" were kind of rare, and what was the most frequent were rather killing/raping/burning/robbing squads that had no problems with killing millions of people.
Just like they had no problems with putting millions of people in death camps and kill them there.
And just like they had no problems with treating soviet POWs as subhumans and killing them on spot.
and many more....
edit: read the rest of your post, kind of agree with the rest :P