Really depends on where you lived. Did you want to know about a specific place or region in particular?

For folks who lived in the Soviet Union Germany really was in a fight to the death with them. Similarly, come 1944, if you were a German you may not have had much choice in being conscripted where a year prior you were both too young and were going to be too young to ever get conscripted. Some simply felt that strongly about the war- maybe they already had family who were fighting or felt a connection to a greater cause- and others simply had no where else to go.