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The last living WWII-era German Nazis have shockingly few regrets
nypost ^ | 05/19/2021 | Johnny Oleksinski

Posted on 05/19/2021 1:58:16 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The last remaining World War II Nazis are living comfortably at home in Germany, leading normal lives and, in some instances, are still proud of their participation in one of world history’s biggest atrocities.

In the chilling new documentary “Final Account,” out Friday, British director Luke Holland, whose grandparents were killed in the Holocaust, interviewed several former Nazis about their memories of the murderous Third Reich. It took him 10 years to track his elderly subjects down and capture them on film. And Holland himself died in June shortly after completing his movie.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: living; nazi; regrets; wwii
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To: polymuser

yes that is correct

very very sad but correct


21 posted on 05/19/2021 2:14:16 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not created, they're excreted." Cicero 2000 years ago)
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To: BobL

They still haven’t condemned their “reporter” for covering up the Holodomor for Uncle Stalin.


22 posted on 05/19/2021 2:15:27 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: faithhopecharity

when some one goes down an evil path it is hard to get the person to acknowledge the inherent evilness. no one wants acknowledge there own faults


23 posted on 05/19/2021 2:15:42 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: faithhopecharity

It would seem to me that some people are evil and enjoy being evil.

That can go for outlaw bikers, serial killers, cultists, or despotic regimes.

When the SS have skull & crossbone insignias on their uniforms, it’s kind of a given that they know they are evil and seek to intimidate and lord over other people.


24 posted on 05/19/2021 2:15:51 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Larry Lucido

Communism framed and defined the horrors of the 20th century, and it still has many enthusiastic nitwits clamoring for more, useful idiots seeking new masters to slavishly drool on command for, many of those eager for yet more horrors.

The Nazis were a brutal passing footnote of horror compared to communism. Indeed as bad as fascism is without the help was it took all that racists, Christ-hating, Neopagan BS to create a form of fascism worse than communism gets on its own with no further help needed.

Small wonder then that Hitler praised Islam and why there are Muslims who still praise Hitler.


25 posted on 05/19/2021 2:16:41 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Leaning Right

>>“Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don’t explain the real guilt we share — That we lost.”

Sums up Hillary’s crimes and deceit and losing the 2016 election.

And the FIB’s “insurance” to take down Trump failed to do so.


26 posted on 05/19/2021 2:17:37 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Leaning Right
"“Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don’t explain the real guilt we share — That we lost.”"

Stoopid, arrogant Kraut bitch.

The nazis were doomed to a horrifying miserable defeat in frozen hell as soon as they turned on the USSR. All the massacre in between was just the inevitable coming to pass.

And yes, there's an element in each generation that thinks pretty much the same way. The evil, arrogant, prideful side of human nature.

27 posted on 05/19/2021 2:20:09 PM PDT by OKSooner ("Burn-Loot-Murder, the Post-American Urban Triathlon.")
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To: Gene Eric
Curious if they’re in denial of the genocide.

Some of them, yes. From one of them when asked about the 6 million dead: “That’s a joke,” he said. “I don’t believe it. I will not believe it. It can’t be. Today they say — ‘Excuse me, but it’s the Jew who puts it like that.’ The scale that is claimed today, I deny that, too. I deny it. It didn’t happen.”

28 posted on 05/19/2021 2:20:59 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: ChicagoConservative27

these people are all in their 90’s, and that makes them, what, ~15 at the end of the war?

hardly hardcore NAZI’s... well, maybe the HJ that ended up in the SS


29 posted on 05/19/2021 2:21:38 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: PCPOET7

true, alas
some evil-doers do repent and try to repair the damages they’ve caused others

but alas it seems to be a small minority

and it seems like some of the worst evil-doers gravitate to government posts


30 posted on 05/19/2021 2:22:18 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not created, they're excreted." Cicero 2000 years ago)
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To: a fool in paradise

yes that seems to be the case as you have said

it is so sad


31 posted on 05/19/2021 2:22:40 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not created, they're excreted." Cicero 2000 years ago)
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To: BobL

#4 or covering up the genocide of dictators around the world. They even won a Pulitzer prize for covering up millions of deaths in Russia in the 1930’s!


32 posted on 05/19/2021 2:25:58 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: BobL

Leftists? Ehh...maybe some, here or there (eco-worship, obssessive focus on the human body, rampant homosexuality, etc), but really, the use of that term suggests they fell on a spectrum of legitimate political differences.

Nazis were whatever they needed to be at whatever time they needed to be. Their goal was boot-stamping-on-a-human-face-forever power for the so-called Arian so-called race.

Great Britain benefitted from the sense on Hitler’s part that its people fell roughly within that category. (Hence the mysterious lack of effective aggression against the British Army during the final days of its retreat from the continent.)


33 posted on 05/19/2021 2:32:10 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Gene Eric
I was hired as a Corporate Operations Mgr at a plastics company back in the 90s. The owner was first generation, German; his mother and dad were both Nazis. She was a nurse and he was some sort of low-level officer. Both spoke with heavy accents; she could barely speak any english at all.

Anyway, the owner, his wife and I became fairly close due in part, to the fact I was managing his company. So we had some pretty in-depth conversations. Turned out he was a full-fledged denier of the holocaust. He said there was no way it happened because Germany is a small country and logistically impossible for that many (12 mil ttl) to be killed. That was his logic. He still had his dad's Nazi uniform btw. Probably worth a bloody fortune by now.

34 posted on 05/19/2021 2:35:13 PM PDT by LibertyWoman ("Where there is no law, there is no liberty." Benjamin Rush)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Their final account is yet to come and pretty soon.


35 posted on 05/19/2021 2:37:05 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: OKSooner

> Stoopid, arrogant Kraut bitch. <

Hanna Reitsch was a very interesting person. She was a fanatical Nazi (just as AOC is a fantastical socialist). Reitsch was one of the few women to earn the Iron Cross. She survived WW II, and went on to establish some gliding records.

I’m also sure that she would have instantly shot an innocent, crying child, had Hitler ordered it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Reitsch


36 posted on 05/19/2021 2:37:54 PM PDT by Leaning Right (iI have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: polymuser

CRT, cathode ray tube?

Yeah man. To heck with that old jazz.

Flat panel all the way.

;^)


37 posted on 05/19/2021 2:38:06 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Gene Eric
"Curious if they’re in denial of the genocide."

Plenty of people were sent to the gas chambers upon arrival at the camps, and plenty more died of disease and malnutrition while at the camps. Holocaust deniers don't want to accept the fact that the Nazis didn't have to murder a large number of prisoners outright, because thousands, perhaps millions of slave laborers died as a result of being overworked, and starved to death by the Nazis working on their various pet projects.

38 posted on 05/19/2021 2:38:08 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: faithhopecharity

government allows people to remove themselves and give a person a level of ego centric personnel deniability to there actions....the old I was just fallowing orders or its the law I have no choice. If you want to be a moral person that means a willingness to Quit and take what ever loss personally you are going to take.


39 posted on 05/19/2021 2:38:59 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: Vaquero

“ Stalin was equally evil and a murderer of 10s of millions of his own people.”

Stalin actually ended by racking up a higher death count when it was all said and done.


40 posted on 05/19/2021 2:39:37 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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