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Originally Posted by Catfish
Death sentence is another case, but we saw this in both world wars on all sides, when it came to alleged (not necessarily proven!) cowardice, treason or openly ciriticising your country's government.
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well know, you can't compare the two. Germans were particulalrly brutal and savage and maintained order and discipline by mass executions.
The U.S. military executed around 100 soldiers in ww2, but all but one had been convicted of murder or rape of civilians. Only one (1) soldier was executed for desertion.
OTOH, the German armed forces executed 15,000 of its own soldiers for desertion. Kusch was not an isolated incident.