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HenryH
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« on: June 19, 2014, 08:02:52 AM » |
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There is certain hypocrisy here. Some of the big Nazi leaders were of course executed after the Nuremberg, but a large number of high ranking officials and officers in the Wehrmacht, Gestapo and SS were not punished. They were needed by either the Western Allies or the Soviets. The guy who developed the V2 ballistic missile for Germany went on to work for the Americans. Albert Speer died as the “Good Nazi”.
A lot of the men that organized the German war effort and the repression got lenient sentences (or no punishment at all), and were back at work shortly after the war. They long dead at this point. The ones that are left were usually young and low ranking. It is something disgraceful by a process that lets the ringleaders go unpunished, but punishes the foot soldiers.
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