[ozzymandus]

“Low level of punishment for mid-level Nazis”?? You need to do some reading. How does 6,000 executions grab you?

[Leaning Right]

I'm not suggesting that every mid-level Nazi got off, but too many did.

Joachim Peiper was convicted of the Malmedy massacre, got the death sentence, served 11 years.

Gustav Schluter was convicted by a French court for massacring civilians at Maille. But Germany refused to hand him over, so he didn't serve a day.

Hubert Lanz was convicted of the murder of hundreds of Italian prisoners at Cephalonia, was sentenced to 12 years, served 8.

The list goes on and on.

Yeah, I know the tired old defense, we needed Germany's help in the cold war. But I suppose that's not much comfort to the relatives of those who were massacred.

[Leaning Right]

To clarify my last post, my point is that too many Nazi criminals got off with too light a sentence, or in some cases no sentence at all.

Consider the examples I cited in my last post. Peiper only served 11 years for his war crime. That was outrageous.(But if you know Peiper's story, justice caught up with him in another form.)

And Schluter didn't serve a day for the deliberate massacre of French civilians, some of whom were children. Again, outrageous.