Jürgen Dahlkamp reports on an interview with a 92 year-old WW II veteran who lost his leg on the Russian front.
“I was a good soldier,” says Heinz Otto Fausten, which seems like the beginning of a sentence that can’t possibly turn out well. But then he says: “I see today that because of that, I was merely a good tool for an unbelievably criminal regime.”
The interview raises questions about individual culpability for collective crimes and when should a “good soldier” disobey orders.
Read more at Reminiscences of a German World War II Veteran – SPIEGEL ONLINE.