I hope my post didn't sound like I thought your German friend was Nazi. I have little doubt but that many German boys were pressed into service with the Wermacht. �
One of my ship mates (M Schoch) at the Naval Photographic Center was a German boy who'd been forced to be a Hitler youth. I'm sure that none of us who knew him ever supposed that he'd been a Nazi. He was a shooter, too.
And if I remember correctly, a nephew of Adolf Hitler was also an American serviceman at the time.
