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Originally Posted by Boris Ciglic
...he was local and knew the language, so he should not have encountered any problems when confronted by local partisans.
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OT: Pardon me, Boris, but how could this be a life insurance against partisans? He was still an ethnic German wearing a Luftwaffe (sorry, "Nazi") uniform. We know of many cases that e.g. Rumanian airmen wearing own uniform and speaking the local language (including colourful swearing) were almost beaten to death by the locals thinking that they were Soviet spies.
Or, something else. Wasn't an ethnic German automatically guilty to Tito's Communist partisans and potential candidate for summary execution?