he hated Nazism, but he was drafted and those who refused the draft were sent to concentration camps. Thus he had no choice but to go to the front against the soviets, where he sabatoged his platoons machine gun Then surrendered without resistance.
This is a True story according to his diary.
my granddad just pretended not to be able to shoot and spent several years playing poker and smoking when the British government wanted him to occupy a colony