alt Hacker News> And it turns out that the German soldiers faced surprisingly mild consequences for disobeying unlawful orders.
Huh. Franz Jägerstätter was executed for refusing to fight in the war.
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the_af • yesterday at 2:19 PM
There are many documented and studied cases where orders to carry out massacres which were disobeyed carried no harm to the German who refused.
Mostly demotion or transfer to a different area, but no execution or jail time. Sometimes not even that.
I'm talking about not taking part in massacres (e.g. shooting unarmed women and children, locking people in a barn and setting it on fire, etc), not about refusing to fight, cowardice, aiding the enemy or actual treason.
Franz Jägerstätter was not a soldier.