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uspol adjacent, WWII/death discussion
Thinking about people on the other side and how a lot of them are probably okay people. Hear me out.
Recently found out about Heinrich Severloh in wargaming magazines. The Beast (or Butcher) of Omaha. Farm kid gets drafted, says impolitic stuff in Russia, winds up stationed at a foxhole with a squad level machine gun and a couple of rifles, overlooking Omaha Beach. Severloh fires everything at the Americans. He thinks he's shot 1000, maybe 2000 of our guys (unlikely) and the next day he surrenders. The war's OVER for him, it'll haunt him, he cries when he talks about it decades later.
About the furthest you can get from a hardcore Nazi.
But the people he shot were still dead or badly wounded.
