We’re talking German hardware and army units with military YouTuber Bernhard Kast. Wehrmacht doctrine, machine guns and riflemen groups are all up for discussion.
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Inge Auerbacher was born in Germany in 1934. She spent three years in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where she was one of a tiny percentage to survive. To commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day Inge talks to Al
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As you mention “Kriegsdienstverweigerer” and what happened to them – it counted as “undermining military force” and was punishable by deportation to concentration camps or death. An example for conscientious objectors who is quite well-known in Austria is Franz Jägerstätter, who objected to military service on religious grounds and was beheaded in 1943.
Regards from Austria,
Wolfgang