Posted on 11/14/2025 2:02:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
Say do what?
Yes, but you can extrapolate, or infer how it worked back then, over there, by seeing how the playbook works.
If you had a job in 1930s Germany, a government job, you were doing well. Don’t rock the boat. There’s a revolution, and the National Socialists take over, after beating the International Socialists.
If you try to buck the system with either, you’re fooked. Lose your job. Pension. Maybe get thrown in a camp or gulag. I’m not excusing what people in totalitarian collectivist societies do, but this is part of human nature, this is how it happens.
The medical community indeed has been “captured” so to speak. Academia as well. Nobody says $@it, because they will get fired. In the case of Academia, we were always told the beauty of Tenure, was they couldn’t be fired for unpopular opinions, and this would lead to a robust Free Speech and Inquiry and the rest of it, academic freedom.
Sure hasn’t turned out that way. At all. They rolled over on all the BS quicker than anyone, Tenure or not. Very sad.
Supposedly Herr Schicklegruber had a lengthy Berlin (or wherever) local police file before he became famous. He liked the young college boys, supposedly.
My uncle was a World War Two vet, left wing as anybody (except for the atomic bomb, go figure). Before I was on to his “debating” style, he would just spout long lists of nonsense, and then change the subject if you actually refuted any of his points. Move on to the next subset of nonsense. The key to dealing with nutbars is staying on topic. Don’t let them flit around with drive by rhetoric. Classic lefty BS.
Anyhow, we were arguing about something, and I pointed out Adolf was a hard core vegetarian anti-tobacco homosexual socialist. He would fit in perfectly at Berkley. My uncle looked like he’d swallowed a lemon. He knew damn well what the deal was.
It was Vienna where he was a failed art student. Lived as a “rent boy’ to make ends meet.
There were 500-550 total Allied judiciary executions of Axis war criminals. A precise number isn’t known but there also were some hundreds more summary field executions during the conduct of the war (this excludes the tens of thousands murdered by the Soviets, which had far more to do with Russian racism than alleged war crimes). Even with extremely liberal accounting, figure two thousand Nazis, tops, executed by the Allies for war crimes.
On the other hand, there were 44,000 (forty-four THOUSAND) extermination camps, concentration camps and labor camps. There were hundreds of thousands of Nazis directly involved with the Final Solution, or indirectly connected to it, or complicit in it. Every last one of them deserved to dangle but the vast majority of them got a pass because once Germany surrendered, the Allies’ primary focus turned to rebuilding a stable and democratic Germany that they wouldn’t find themselves at war with again 10 years down the road.
This also meant they couldn’t engage in a years-long series of war tribunals to make sure all the “worker bees” in the concentration camps got their just rewards because that would risk looking to the run-of-the-mill Germans like they were extracting revenge. So they weighed the cost against the reward and opted only to prosecute the higher-ups and some of the more egregious offenders, in the hope that that would earn them some good will and aid in implementing the Marshall Plan.
But hundreds of thousands of murdering Nazis got off without so much as a slap on the wrist.
But hundreds of thousands of murdering Nazis got off without so much as a slap on the wrist.
Excellent movie ... saw it for the second time yesterday. There is a lot to absorb in this movie and seeing it twice within five days helped to clarify it. A few years ago, my wife and I were on a Danube cruise and Nuremberg was one of the cities we visited. The courtroom was one of the more interesting sites we visited ... the area where the prisoners were imprisoned and later executed (close by the courtroom) was demolished shortly after the trials were completed.
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