>>>My father took active steps to be captured in WWII on the west front and spent some time as a POW in the states and not in the USSR and he did not enter the military led by Nazi speeches but as one way where he did not have any good options left. He was able to sire me
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>During the 1980's I did computer work for a Germany steel manufacturer's US offices. Some of the men there had similar stories. One man told me that at the end of the war they were drafting 14 year old's and he was called.

In his case it was "volunteer" or go to jail - just for having a party, not being married and getting caught... And at that time Barbarossa stint had not been started and most hoped for England to arrange with moved borders, so his choice was not idiotic from his POV..

>Like your Dad, he and his buddies surrendered to a US unit. They were terrified of the Russians, but also of the French.

Was a bit more in his case, as he had to switch fronts and not do anything too flagrant which might make remaining german hardliners shoot him in the last days