It’s really not. Partisans are considered combatants so it’s legal to shoot them during war. It doesn’t help that they wear civilian clothes so stuff like this happens a lot.
This scene very much reflects the situation on the eastern front in 1942.... Look at the captain wearing top of the line winter clothes while his soldiers almost freezing to death. What an arrogant POS...
Not true. RONA and eastern SS divisions were well treated. Also Indians, Arabs and Asians served in the German military. There’s a few photographs of German soldiers laughing with black troops.
It's no wonder that when the tide turned against the Nazis - the Russians took few prisoners - those they did take ended up in Siberia and they didn't live long there either !!!
Vì nhân tính tính mạng con người, và người dân vô tội, tôi sinh thay mặt bắn chết tên chỉ huy, thà là một tên giáp điệp còn hơn bản thân mang tội ác diệt chủng 😢
German Captain seems quite soft for allowing such open display of disobeying, questioning and disrespect from his soldiers. Russian Commisars would shoot any questioning soldier in the face. Americans would probably court martial too.
And now, today we have the nazi Russians , doing the exact same. How embarrassing to be a Russian today and realise that you are no different from the nazis that invaded your county. You have now officially turned into your enemy, hilter has finally taken over russia
the wind whistling very slightly louder and louder as they're about to fire sounds hollow and builds a lot of tension they dont need music to stir up feelings, all they need is the frost-bitten blisters on the mens faces, the stillness of the civilians as if they're either accepting their fate and giving up hope or doubting the germans would shoot them
Let’s just stop glorifying the barbaric Red Army which committed as many if not more atrocities than the SS & Wehrmacht! Don’t give Russia any credit for anything!
So many caring & sympathetic German soldiers in 1 place at 1 time, after crossing Eastern Europe & Western Russia in their caring & sympathetic way!! was this a German film with a not all nazi's were bad slant?? Quite a few bad things did happen at Stalingrad or so i heard.
This illustrates perfectly what so many people forget. 95% of the German enlisted were humans... just like you are I. The SS and the 5% were the animals that not only preyed on their enemies, but on their own. The enlisted pulled the trigger, or died at their commander's barrel. Just like the British, Americans and other allies. You were SHOT for disobeying an order. Something I was told by my Grandfather was something that he never admitted to doing, but was ordered to do in basic training. 'If you are staring through your scope or your steel sights, and you see a kid staring at you through theirs... It is not a question of what is right or wrong, it is a question of who squeezes first.'
Perhaps Stalingrad was different, but throughout the entire war, A German soldier was never killed or physically harmed for refusing to kill others. It’s a fairytale that they perpetuate to lessen their guilt. Watch “Ordinary men” On the flix
The part that I never understand of these firing squads is that the people all just stand there and let it happen. Why don't they at least try to escape? I understand that the chance of escaping is nearly zero but doesn't survival instinct kick in? What do they have to lose?
Probably for the same reason as the ISIS videos I have seen. I asked the same questions. They have relinquished themselves to their fate and have decided to just accept it
I hope the translation is inaccurate because the conversation seemed like a distorted bs retelling of history. Soldiers follow orders; they aren't driven by moral convictions, especially the Germans, who embraced and truly believed in Hitler's mission.
Hitler considered the USA a standard: a purely racist state that destroyed the Untermensch and took their place. He just wanted to make Germany the USA.
