Can I understand? Was leaving enough? Was deserting enough? What would I consider enough? Would I have asked him to shoot his superior officers before he deserted? Go into hiding rather than enlist at all? Try to spy for the Allies? What’s the minimum expectation I have for human decency in a war the was entirely inhumane?
-Monica Hesse
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