War can infinitely magnify the evil in the hearts of human beings, ordinary people will become bad, and bad people will take the opportunity to become devils. In the face of war, human civilization is like a pale piece of paper. Moral disorder, barbarism breeds, and man becomes like a beast, which is why civilized society should oppose war.
For example, after the Vietnam War, there was a serious violence in American society, and most of the initiators were veterans who retired from the Vietnam War. Most of them were originally ordinary and kind soldiers, and after experiencing the cruelty of the Vietnamese battlefield, their hearts were twisted and they developed violent tendencies. This is also a serious problem that we have to pay attention to under modern warfare.
Today, I want to tell you a true story, a soldier who was originally ordinary and did not even dare to open a gun. After experiencing the war, he became a murderous devil. He once picked up a piece of clothing, put it on, and helped him take the lives of 125 people.
The soldier was willie Herold, a 19-year-old German soldier during World War II. After a few years of conquest, the Germans fell deeper and deeper in the quagmire of World War II, and the situation gradually turned around, and Germany, which had been dominant for a time, suddenly became the yellow flower of the past. Under the fierce attack of the Allies, at the end of World War II, many German generals felt defeat in advance and abandoned their armor and fled.
The so-called bears a nest, the troops took the lead in running, and the soldiers under them were naturally on the front and back feet. It was in this environment that Willie Herold became a deserter, and he had planned to go into hiding and returning to the lives of ordinary people. However, fate played a joke on him.
At the end of World War II, due to the tight war situation, german military law treated deserters quite strictly. As long as you are caught, you are directly shot. But after all, the horizontal and vertical are dead, and many soldiers are still desperate to take risks. Willie Herold's troops were passing through a forest, and while resting at night, the soles of his feet were smeared with oil and disappeared into the dense and dark forest.
While on the run, Willie Herold finds a military uniform under a large tree. He stepped forward to take a look, oh heck, it was still a captain's uniform, and it seemed that someone was one step ahead of him. Out of vanity, Willie Herold made God wear this uniform, and from then on, he was out of control.
No sooner had he left the forest than Willie Herold encountered a defeated German army. Their commander was killed, and the soldiers were a little confused and couldn't find the next direction. Seeing Willie Herold, dressed in the uniform of a captain, regarded him as a leader. Willie Herold also went down the water and became their "Captain Herold".
Captain Herold then falsely preached the holy message, saying that he was an officer appointed by Hitler to capture deserters. The crowd really didn't know what to do next, so they responded to Captain Herold and joined him in capturing the deserters. They arrived at the Emsland Correctional Camp, which was dedicated to the detention of deserters, and Herold told the person in charge that he had taken over the area, and the head saw that he was older than himself, and did not suspect it, and directly handed over the work.
Hundreds of deserters were being held in the camp, but Herold had not come to let them go. He himself was a deserter, a thief with a weak heart, afraid of being recognized by others, so he was determined to kill all the deserters in the punishment battalion. In fact, none of the deserters in the correctional battalion knew him.
As a result, these deserters in the correctional battalion were executed by Herold in various fancy ways, and some wolf dogs tore at them, and the anti-aircraft guns exploded into powder. Only unthinkable, without Herold can not do. Under Herold's rule, the entire camp was hellish, killing 120 deserters in just 8 days, not including 5 British prisoners of war.
But the fake could not be true, herold's identity finally aroused the question of his colleagues, after all, herold was still the first officer who could give such a cruel hand to his compatriots. Soon, Herold's identity was revealed, and he was arrested and imprisoned, but in the end Herold escaped. It was not until he fled to Wilhelmshaven, Germany, that he was captured by the British troops who landed there.
After all, he still had the lives of 5 British prisoners of war on his hands, and the British would not let him go. He was summarily executed by the British, and shortly after his death, his bestiality at the Emslander Punishment Camp was exposed, and he was also known as the "Amsland Demon".
Why would Willie Herold, a deserter who didn't even dare to hold a gun, end up being a murderous executioner? It all had to be attributed to World War II, and if he hadn't gone to war, Willie Herold might have been the son of a small-town builder in Germany. All his life, he only deals with files, and he never raises a gun to his compatriots. However, the war twisted his heart and turned him into a murderous maniac.
That's why we have to oppose war, because if war is allowed to breed, there will be countless "Emsland demons" in this world.