Don't forget Pope Benedict was in the Hitler Youth.
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Hmm.. yeah. But the majority of right wing Nazis is now in ex GDR. The Problem With them Post war was ignored or downplayed.
When GDR would become Part of Germany again, they have become victoms of a great sell out and the majority of companies closed. That caused a Lot of distrust to the (new) government. Not defending Nazi scum Here. But the ex GDR Population was an easy target for the few Nazis that were left in Western Germany.
Now we gotta Deal With that Shit again, so I do Not agree on soviet union getting rid of Nazis. They straight Up ignored it in the Long Run tbh.
Operation Osoaviakhim was a secret Soviet operation in which more than 2,500 German specialists (scientists, engineers and technicians who worked in several areas) from companies and institutions relevant to military and economic policy in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (SBZ) and Berlin, as well as around 4,000 more family members, totalling more than 6,000 people, were taken from former Nazi Germany as war reparations to the Soviet Union. It took place in the early morning hours of October 22, 1946
Did these people get promoted to the head of the USSR’s space program or the chief of staff of the Warsaw Pact or the UN Secretary General or the the Head of the Soviet Socialist Republic Commission?
No, the were used for their technical knowledge and allowed to live quiet lives in obscurity, away from any political power.
They were allowed to live they were given a country of refuge in their families were brought with them.
We already agreed on this, so I don’t know what your point is.
The keywords here being "as war reparations".
Nazis were put to work for their crimes not given a new name and passport and a high paying and respected career.
I like how the truth about nearly 3,000 Nazi scientists over 4, 000 Nazi regime members in their families were given nice lives in Russia after the war. I like how that little truth breaks everything you're trying to say.
I can't find anything on Walter Hallstein and Adolf Heusinger being nazis or committing war crimes. Looks like the former was an academic drafted in the army and the latter a high-ranking officer who began his career before the nazis.
I get that Heusinger can be seen as complicit (he must have known for whom he worked and didn't quit), but what about Hallstein?
Wikipedia gives plenty on Adolf Heusinger's involvement in the Nazi party and millitary.
Here's a link for Hallstein.
But perhaps the most shocking thing of all about this speech is that Hallstein stated one of the most important laws to be introduced in the annexed countries was the “Law for the Protection of the German Blood, and the German Honour.” In other words, he advocated the imposition of the Nuremberg Race Laws as a top priority in “Greater Germany.” These laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying, or even having sexual relations, with persons of German or related blood.
Thanks for reading more carefully than me!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hallstein
In 1935, Hallstein attempted to start a military career alongside his academic duties.[17] In 1936, he managed to integrate a voluntary military service in an artillery unit.[17] In the years between 1936 and 1939, he attended several military courses[18] and was made a reserve officer.[17]
Hallstein was a member of several nominally Nazi professional organizations,[g][19] but he was not a member of the Nazi Party
Not the worst nazi but the voluntary military service under the Nazis seals the deal for me. Definitely a Nazi.
Ah yeah, I thought he was drafted. Thanks!
When US citizens say their great uncle killed Nazis, they want to say they killed drafted cannon fodder.
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