Reply #8: No I don't [View All]

Others may feel differently, but I have always placed my assigned my highest loyalties to my own principles. I have served in the military, and can say beyond doubt that when my comrades betrayed my own principles I regretfully parted ways with them.

I think it important to note here that I would be surprised if many German soldiers did desert during the siege; regardless of how they may have felt at the time there were few options open to them that didn't mean almost certain death. One might decide to die rather than violate a particularly important moral ideal, but I doubt that such a clear situation often presented itself.