Your post is on-topic insofar as the occupation American and British forces decided to go after only a handful of Nazis who were at the very top, allowing many war criminals to take up positions in the Bundesrepublik in a Cold War climate. The West German authorities let nearly every Nazi go free or in rare instances gave only short sentences as was the case with those who were allowed to open children's homes as recounted in this report. It is not a glorious period of history.Slightly off-topic my father (r.i.p) never much talked about his WW2 experiences but at the end of the war he was in Schleswig-Holstein where one of his tasks was to sort out the sheep from the goats so that factories could be reopened.
Your post is on-topic insofar as the occupation American and British forces decided to go after only a handful of Nazis who were at the very top, allowing many war criminals to take up positions in the Bundesrepublik in a Cold War climate. The West German authorities let nearly every Nazi go free or in rare instances gave only short sentences as was the case with those who were allowed to open children's homes as recounted in this report. It is not a glorious period of history.
Well, there were compromises and collusions on all sides; both the Americans and the Soviets were happy to co-opt Nazi scientists deemed to be in their strategic interest.
Well, there were compromises and collusions on all sides; both the Americans and the Soviets were happy to co-opt Nazi scientists deemed to be in their strategic interest.
It wasn't just scientists, plenty of Nazis (CC guards and murdering medics included) found themselves a cosy bed in East Germany, once the initial purges were completed.Well, there were compromises and collusions on all sides; both the Americans and the Soviets were happy to co-opt Nazi scientists deemed to be in their strategic interest.
BS, the only reason more death sentences were initially handed out and executions effected, was that capital punishment already existed with the Soviets and was slavishly adopted by the governing East German satraps.The Soviets and East Germans were far more severe on people who committed war crimes than the Americans and West Germans.
Well, there were compromises and collusions on all sides; both the Americans and the Soviets were happy to co-opt Nazi scientists deemed to be in their strategic interest.
Your post is on-topic insofar as the occupation American and British forces decided to go after only a handful of Nazis who were at the very top, allowing many war criminals to take up positions in the Bundesrepublik in a Cold War climate. The West German authorities let nearly every Nazi go free or in rare instances gave only short sentences as was the case with those who were allowed to open children's homes as recounted in this report. It is not a glorious period of history.
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