Other hot take: Schadenfreude towards low-level grunts is a less efficient tool of organising and education than using stories like these as cautionary examples of how the bourgeois state is conning impressionable youths and shouldn’t be trusted.

This is just the Clean Wehrmacht myth with a thin layer of red white and blue paint on it. Even worse because all Iraq War veterans were volunteers and none were conscripted against their will like the people who fought in the actual Wehrmacht.

If nobody here is going to give the soldiers of 12th SS Division Hitler Youth any sympathy, why does this guy deserve any?