Call of Duty: World at War

[waterproofbob]

I've now played the bit which is choose the kill method, not the one I thought we were chatting about. OK I kinda get the issue now. Still not that bothered, but I think much more important than the choice of how to kill the guys trying to surrender is the fact that there are ppl on your side disagreeing with killing them. I actually thought it was done very well. It wasn't a choice between kill or not kill but the oppertunity to stop the other soldiers from letting them burn to death. The gameplay doesn't allow for any back and forth between the characters thus you can't argue with the decision, however there is a choice and there is someone trying to defend the Germans.

 

[Dragon]

I assume here you mean the russian soldiers, as - correct me if I'm wrong - there was no german conscription program going on.
There have always been people like the latter that slip into military forces, and as this is after all a war game, I think it's only right that it shows it.

Im Dritten Reich wurde die Wehrpflicht am 16. März 1935 wiedereingeführt, im Zuge der Volksgemeinschaft wurde aber der „Einjährige“ abgeschafft und von den Offizieren wurde erstmals gefordert, auch die Mannschaften als Kameraden zu betrachten. Der Anschluss von Österreich 1938 und später die Besetzung des Sudetenlandes, Danzigs, des Elsasses usw. bedeutete, dass die dortigen Einwohner Reichsbürger wurden und daher von der Wehrpflicht betroffen waren.

Sorry I couldn't find it in English, but I'll translate it:

In the Third Reich the conscription was reintroduced on 16th March 1935 in the background of the "Volksgemeinschaft" also the "Einjährige" (addition: meaning a conscripted soldier who had to serve the Wehrmacht for only one year, instead an unlimited conscription was introduced) was abolished and the officers at that time demanded that the conscripted soldiers should be regarded as "Kameraden" (I have difficulties to translate this, you could probably see it as a "fulltime soldier"). The "Anschluss" of Austria in 1938 and lateron the occupation of the Sudetenland, Danzig and Elsass-Loraine etc. meant that the local inhabitants became "Reichsbürger" and by that fell under the conscription law.

And I bet that there were many people who did not want to fight for Hitler, especially lateron on the eastern front.

 

[Ronin Storm]

Reichsbürger would probably translate as "citizen of the Reich", hence why the conscription applied to them.

 

[PsiSoldier]

I see... I did not know that.