1. Seeing too thoroughly, so there is no liberation.
2. The poet's heart will also learn to be numb because of the fear of death.
3. He preserved the last dignity of the German soldier.
In World War II, Germany was completely defeated. Soldiers died on distant battlefields, and homes in their homeland were looted and burned.
While bearing the heavy price of defeat, the Germans must also stand up and apologize. Apologize to the villages and civilians that the chariots ran over, to the Jewish refugees in Auschwitz, for waging this stupid war, for the smoke and scorched earth all over the world.
The humiliation of defeat and the bow of apology made German soldiers unable to stand up in the topic of World War II.
The role of Friedhelm implicitly contains the intention to justify the name of the German soldiers:
he hates war and likes poetry; he does not follow the Führer frantically, but feels sad for the suffering people; he sees everything, but there is nothing he can do; But there was no turning back; he was not a brutal thug who killed children and women with blood on his hands.
In the end, he had only one death: dying on the battlefield, at the gunpoint of the Russian soldiers, could he live up to the mission of the motherland, not humiliate the dignity of the soldiers, and not violate the poet's heart.
Such German soldiers can be criticized by the world, but must be respected.
(to be continued)
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