Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Absolute Mad Lads - Mad Jack Churchill" video.

Do keep in mind that german Wehrmacht troops were not the of the same psychotic stock as the SS. It's entirely within reason for them to exhibit some compassion to a seemingly mentally deranged Brit charging at them with a sword. Regular German troops had the unenviable situation of being dutybound to fight and die for a despotic regime. As a soldier you don't get to choose which orders or commanders or governments to follow.
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Leroy Jenkins grandfather.
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Stop drinking Monster. Start drinking beer.
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@EvidensInsania : What a load of tripe. First of all, that's why vietnam turned into a humiliating defeat and a giant shitshow for the americans, because troops could no longer follow orders of their superiors without second guessing them. A chain of command does not work properly if every low ranking subordinate has to question and second guess the orders they recieve of whether they are "lawful" or not. No soldier is ever guilty of warcrimes if he or she was acting upon orders given by a superior officer. Responsibility goes UP the chain lf command. Not down. The only exception is when a soldier acts on their own accord or deviate from orders given. As to the ridiculous notion that americans and brits "refused unlawful orders" during WWII. Tell that to all the carpet bombed hospitals and civilian population centers that british and american airmen destroyed. No side in WWII is innocent of warcrime. Only germans are the only people having to pay for them because they lost.
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@EvidensInsania : You don't have right to "free will" as a soldier during times of war. Not in ANY army in the world. Lot western, not eastern, none. If you tried exercising your "free will" by refusing to follow orders in wartime, you were looking at summary execution for desertion or even treason. Being given the "choice" to carry out "unlawful" orders or being executed is not a choice. It's coercion. And that same coercive mechanism is built into every military in the world today. I doubt YOU would've chosen to be executed over following unlawful orders. And you wouldn't even have given it a second thought.
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@EvidensInsania : For fuck sake just look at the british armed forces and the "I am soldier x" debacle. Here we have loyal servicemen being kicked out of the armed forces... For being in a photograph with a celebrity. That's how much a serviceman's "free will" is worth to the army and the government running it. If even Britains military is willing to dishonorably discharge servicemen for such a completely benign and perfectly legal act, what the hell do you think the nazi regime would do to it's own servicemen for refusing to follow orders in a time of war?
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