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To: Moltke; Bubba Ho-Tep
You didn't know? Almost all Germans received amnesty for NAZI collaboration soon after the war:
The German chancellor Konrad Adenauer was against denazification and granted amnesty to those involved in the Holocaust. Denazification was opposed by majority of German population at the time, and when West Germany was established in 1949, Adenauer made ending it one of his main priorities. Together with other German parties he passed a number of amnesty laws that overturned the process of denazification; he appointed a former Nazi official who had written commentaries on the racist Nuremberg Laws, Hans Globke, as his chief of staff in 1949; and he was pushing hard for the release of various war criminals. By January 31, 1951, the amnesty laws covered over 792,176 people. Those pardoned included people with six-month sentences, 35,000 people with sentences of up to one year and include more than 3,000 functionaries of the SA, the SS, and the Nazi Party who participated in dragging victims to jails and camps; 20,000 other Nazis sentenced for "deeds against life" (presumably murder); 30,000 sentenced for causing bodily injury, and 5,200 who committed "crimes and misdemeanors in office." By 1958 only a few of the original Nuremberg defendants were still in jail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification#Konrad_Adenauer_and_the_end_of_denazification


44 posted on 05/12/2011 10:57:42 AM PDT by mas cerveza por favor
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To: mas cerveza por favor

You still haven’t explained, then, the recent German prosecutions that I cited.


46 posted on 05/12/2011 11:23:17 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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