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You're shot for refusing orders. In a war situation no one is going to bother recording this. You'll either get a letter home that you were a deserter and died
by pergadad 8y ago
You're shot for refusing orders. In a war situation no one is going to bother recording this. You'll either get a letter home that you were a deserter and died dishonourably, so your widow and kids won't even get a pension, or you'll be lucky and the commander sends back a letter that you were killed in the line of duty or from injury/disease.
One way or the other, there will be few situations where such refusal is possible, much less written down.
- anigbrowl 8y agoBetter to die with a clear conscience than to murder the innocent. If you were cunning you could take the commanding officer out instead.
- jtbayly 8y agoThe paper documents that those who resisted in the army and police suffered very little in the way of negative consequences. From the conclusion of the paper: “There was not a uniform system of "terror-justice" operating automatically against those whose civil and moral courage forced them to declare "ohnemich!"(without me!). In fact, the opposite is true. In every case of documented refusal to obey orders to exterminate people, the coercive powers of the Nazi system proved to be impotent or ineffective.”