I don’t understand why, if it was even true, shooting deserters is bad. Is it more humane to imprison them for 5 months and then hang them anyway after you win, or let them be tortured and shot if you lost to the Nazis, or just shoot to the kill the potential problem in the middle of a fucking brutal battle?
Like I can’t think of any military that won’t kill deserters. Maybe the US doesn’t, but I know the law allows them to. And you know no matter how humane they champion themselves, they won’t change the law, “just in case” they need to execute you.
IIRC the movie shows the soldiers being forced into a suicidal charge with no real plan or weapons and then when it inevitably fails and the survivors try to run to regroup they're shot down by their own men. In that context it's pretty bad and also obviously unrealistic.
I don’t understand why, if it was even true, shooting deserters is bad. Is it more humane to imprison them for 5 months and then hang them anyway after you win, or let them be tortured and shot if you lost to the Nazis, or just shoot to the kill the potential problem in the middle of a fucking brutal battle?
Like I can’t think of any military that won’t kill deserters. Maybe the US doesn’t, but I know the law allows them to. And you know no matter how humane they champion themselves, they won’t change the law, “just in case” they need to execute you.
IIRC the movie shows the soldiers being forced into a suicidal charge with no real plan or weapons and then when it inevitably fails and the survivors try to run to regroup they're shot down by their own men. In that context it's pretty bad and also obviously unrealistic.