LayinScunion

Nobody was ever "forced" to serve. Drafted possibly but not "forced". If it was something he truly didn't want to do, he could have left the country. The war was already ongoing so it's not as if it was some huge surprise to be drafted when he became of age.

Smells like Hitler Youth and highly questionable years he doesn't want to talk about.

Let me make it clear I am referring to the regular army/SS. Not the Volkssturm. I am well aware that men were forced to fight at war's end in rag tag militia. Who wants to fight begin to fight on the losing side of a war?

I understand that.

My point being that men were not held at gunpoint and pushed to the front in the regular army. Perhaps we are at a misunderstanding on that.

There is indeed also some evidence that alot of soldiers were not only drafted but "forced" to fight.

I'd love to see it. Because I have numerous accounts of otherwise.