[Laurent Rizzotti]

I have always wondered if the 'East Front sanction' was a myth or not. In all my experience of WWII readings I have not found a real case of such a sanction, while I have found tens of cases of people jugded or degraded. Usually a man committing an offense against the military law was sentenced to jail or worse, maybe they were sent to the East Front after that but I doubt it. East Front was an active front, and probably the worse, but I doubt the German military will officialy recognize it as a punishment.

As for pilots being degraded and sent to the East Front as infantry, I have no example of that. I remember 3 cases of pilots having disiplin problems. One was on the East Front and ended in Africa, one in the Med and remained there, one on the West and went to Mourmansk front IIRC.