When the little Jewish girl was taken away by the Ukrainian auxiliary police, he was the only one who protected her out of morality; his friend was out of friendship; his brother was out of honor of the so-called "Wehrmacht"— — and that was something long gone after the Wehrmacht was directly or indirectly involved in ethnic cleansing.
When he reappeared on the eve of the Battle of Kursk, he had become a seasoned non-commissioned officer - during the previous winter war, he took camouflage clothes and felt boots from the fallen Soviet soldiers, which was a transition to survival. ——The boy who took shelter under his brother’s wings in the first battle is long gone.
He didn't turn to "believing" nonsense like FATHERLAND must win because of the harsh environment; nor did he become the kind of "frightening recruits, without any A professional soldier who emotionally shoots and kills all enemy troops." In the first episode, the commando of the Imperial Security Service Commando who was in charge of special operations who shot the little Jewish girl was killed because of a miscalculation.
He took it for granted that Friedhelm was still the same boy he was, but he had been through almost the entire war with his cowardly instincts. With him, the brigade captain of the security department had control over the "file" and the fate of his brother who was trapped in the camp, and he could train him into a pair of gun-wielding hands using Bapnov's method. In addition to what Viktor had heard and witnessed, it is unknown how many "rabbits" Friedhelm was forced to hunt under the coercion of the brigade captain. What is known is that the brigade captain didn't know as much about human nature as he thought, so in the end he died in a slow and painful way.
After killing the Jewish nurse, Charlotte just fantasized about her redemption. After spending the night in a tank on the outskirts of Orel, Wilhelm has been reduced to a complete survivor. Greta passively surrendered in prison. Viktor didn't become what the first generation of Israelites called "the calf" but his burdens had already exceeded his load.
Only Friedhelm chose of his own volition: to atone for the sins he had committed in order to survive. So he died with relief.
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