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Simon Trakinski - A Jew is unable to shoot a captured German soldier

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Simon Trakinski - A Jew is unable to shoot a captured German soldier
Simon Trakinski - A Jew is unable to shoot a captured German soldier
Transcript: In '44 when the German army was in retreat, we captured several German soldiers, you know... who were in retreat and they were taken into custody and interrogated and after two days our commanders decided to take them out and shoot them, so they appointed 3 guys from our outfit to do the shooting. One of them was this friend of ours from Vilna which we came out with... he was ... at home his father was a butcher. He was himself a strong guy and he refused to execute the order to shoot him. He did ...the Russians couldn't understand, but they killed your whole family, why can't...? says I can't shoot a man in the face ...basically.
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