Pity

I think that the man deserves pity, because i don't think that he really knew what he was getting into when he joined the Hitler Youth, because it says "My uncle had such exciting tales to tell of the war in russia, how they had driven ivan into the Masurian Lakes. So he really just wanted to fight and be in combat, and do things that his uncle did when he was war, so thats why he joined hitler youth. Another is "I wanted to play my part in that sort of thing" here he was saying that he just wanted to do the same thing as his uncle, and he probably didnt realize at the time that he would be killing innocent people, instead of fighting russians.