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Originally Posted by adzii_nufc
No, I'm saying punishing a 94 year old bloke for following orders is ludicrous. He hasn't evaded anything. He's never hidden. He's played a minimal part in this supposed 'War Machine' A lot of people were simply soldiers, forced into doing a job or face the consequences, we're quick to forget about that and brand them as fascist pigs instead.
Do your job and then be hunted for the next 70 years or die. What an amazing system. We're quickly taught to believe everyone that lived in Nazi Germany was automatically a racist ignorant fascist murderer.
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I hope we pursue and prosecute perpetrators of genocide after the nazis with equal vigour
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
No. But how far down the food chain do you go with culpability? The guy who cleaned the windows? The supplier of bread to the camp? Pens? etc.
How about the Catholic church who's silence during the war years was deafening?
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You are joking, no one saved more Jews during wwii than the Catholic Church and the Pope in particular
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Originally Posted by Damien
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.
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Actually we did go after the generals, Alfred jodl in particular sticks in the mind