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Charlie Stross

@Remittancegirl @Yendolosch "Legally speaking" and "in the Third Reich" are two phrases that don't belong on the same continent. (They had conscription, no age limit. Their solution to conscientious objectors was a firing squad. The law was whatever the führer decreed. IIRC the youngest "soldiers" in May 1945 were just eight years old ...)

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Madeleine Morris

@cstross @Yendolosch

Indeed. I was just unwilling to go along with the implication that somehow 12 year olds get held morally responsible for being child soldiers or that their deaths are to be celebrated.

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