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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He volunteered to be part of the waffen ss, they mostly terrorized the civilian population and helped with extermination, they weren't involved in actual warfighting that much and when they did fight they lost badly because they weren't meant to be military, they were meant to terrorize civilians and help with extermination.