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You could read the article if you want to. It says that he voluntarily joined the SS Totenkopf division, committed atrocities at a concentration camp, and he op

• tptacek 2y ago
  Point of order: it was never demonstrated that he directly committed atrocities at Gross-Rosen or Mauthausen (where he was never stationed). Of course, his work guarding prisoners there enabled those atrocities, as both the courts considering his case immediately pointed out.† He didn't say Germany losing was his "only" regret and he didn't say that openly --- he said that in a private session with the OPRF school board (the only citation we have for it --- I have no doubt he said it, given what his son Rainer wrote in our local newspaper at the time --- is an interview Soffer did with one of the school board members). He was not an out-and-proud Nazi or a public advocate for Germany. (To be clear: I think his case was handled properly by the authorities, and OPRF's protection of him after they discovered his Nazi past was not good.) † Ironically, his combat service on the Eastern Front has more problematic documentation; he got a commendation for his involvement in the capture of 250 Soviet soldiers, and it's tacitly understood that those soldiers were then killed.