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Originally Posted by Pierre
Reign it in a bit.
What about all the women that worked in UK munitions factories during the war effort.
Knowing full well that the bullets and bombs they make are going to kill some innocent people and children.
Do you view them in the same way. They didn't pull the trigger, but they provided the weaponry for the those that did. Is the blood of innocent people on their hands?
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That isn't the same thing though. We don't prosecute people for participating in conventional warfare. They are not going after the equivalent people on the Germany side for this nor do they go after the rank and file infantry or the Generals of the conventional armies that spread out across Europe
unless they participating in specific war crimes during that time.
The women that worked in UK munitions factories were making weapons designed for conventional warfare against a invading force. They were not working in a factory design to systematically kill an entire race of people who were not invading or posing a threat to them. The former is not a war crime, the later is.
Remember there are two parts to this prosecution. They had to have been involved in the running of the camp and they had to know what the camp was for.