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What do the authors think that soldiers do? Where do they think all that ammunition goes? Do they imagine that a vast population of dead just up and died?
The journalistic tactic of personalized micro-narrative is ineradicable, but how naive can you be -- and remain? It is deeply misleading, a form of disguise, to focus on the occasional documented good-boys-gone-wrong tale, while the real story swirls obviously about us everywhere.
Virtually every unit on the eastern front committed atrocities, as a kind of filigree on the basic thrust of policy. It took 50 years for the perpetrating nation to grasp this. Will we ever have such a reckoning?
