This was still only 5 months into the war when it happened. I wonder how attitudes changed as time went on?
To refuse conscription into the German armed forces was a 'capital' offence during the war, so I doubt they had much choice but to join up. However, over 50,000 did refuse and paid with their lives.
Hitler had been in government for 7 years by this point and only got there by the majority of German people voting for the National Socialist ideology and willingly going along with their policies.
Were they Nazis? Possibly not by choice but almost certainly by indoctrination.
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