"...I took part in search-and-destroy missions and the burning of villages..."
Gosh, there should be some documentary evidence of this, shouldn't there?
It's come to something, when a man's enemies try to prove he lied when he said he committed crimes against humanity. How did we get here?!
Do we really want an SS agent who was "just following orders"? As president? If he really thought what he was doing was evil, the heroic thing would have been to refuse.