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Early in the war, the SS had extremely high standards for recruits for racial purity and ideological commitment. Anyone who joined during this period can basically be safely shot without trial.

Late into 1944 and 1945 the SS was very much in the practice of conscripting people at gunpoint so that’s where it gets murkey to shoot all of them out of hand. Not necessarily wrong, I think there’s shakier justification for executing a conscript vs a hardened fanatic.

Probably best to just give the conscripts hard corrective labor like the Wehrmacht prisoners. Maybe a longer term or harder work since they were still SS.

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Late into 1944 and 1945 the SS was very much in the practice of conscripting people at gunpoint

Only if we’re talking areas outside of Germany. I know that’s the case here, but it’s important to clarify because “i was forced to join the nazis or i would’ve been shot” is a very common justification that is very often blatantly false.

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