Posted on 05/19/2021 1:58:16 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
I agree. You think there would be memoirs about regrets and how they repented and their subsequent life after obtaining grace. Maybe the more numerous lower level employees were not highly educated and writing a book is beyond their skill level. Most biographies of the elite are “I didn’t know” explanation, and maybe they couldn’t be sure and it was difficult to grasp it was really happening. Even many of the Jews had difficulty believing it was really as bad as it was at the time.
Consider something several orders of magnitude less evil, the 2020 election. People have a lot of difficulty understanding and coming to grips with the implications of a stolen election going forward. The human brain of the victims can’t comprehend it. The perpetrators comfort themselves that it was for the greater good.
Perhaps one’s body has become like fired clay and one can no longer repent. I can not recall finding grace stories from perpetrators from 1933 to 1945 period. I suspect there won’t be many from 2020 either. Given where we are as a nation, you probably couldn’t get them published.
Brainwashed still after all these years.
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Brainwashed but understandable... it’s a horrible thing to reject Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2...
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
“ One of the Waffen-SS quoted in the article denies the holocaust ever took place”
Sounds like the NY Slimes!
“Stalin actually ended by racking up a higher death count when it was all said and done.”
And Mao was the champ.
There was a book that I read years ago something like The Closing of the American Mind he pretty much argued that as a result of World War II the Professors that shaped the Third Reich with their teaching of things like Nietzche Marx and Engels Bergson comes to mind they came here and started teaching in our Universites and low and behold today we have Antifa and BLM.
I would suspect many were and are demon possessed ... low probability of any remorse.
What about a certain Hungarian Nazi living comfortably in the USSA?
The muslims were their allies and have never been held to account.
Still crazy after all these years.
Eichmann, who helped organize the Holocaust, seemed to have no regrets, other than regretting getting caught, tried and hanged.
“ 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.
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And Mao Zedong made ‘em both look like pikers!
Feeling both embarrassed and regretful about past mistakes is very difficult for anyone. Imagine trying to develop a tiny regret for murder and massacre. Almost impossible. Ask a post-abortion woman if she feel any regret. Rare.
“Curious if they’re in denial of the genocide.”
Depends on who they are and what company they are in.
I’ve met deeply repentant Nazis. Including some who converted to Orthodox Judaism, moved to Israel, and now have completely assimilated grandchildren. Hisotrically, the kids made good Mossad agents, as they don’t “look” Jewish.
And I’ve met the opposite.
The Death’s Head insignia long pre-dates Hitler, Naziism and the SS.
A web search indicates the symbol was adopted by the Prussian 5th Hussar regiment in the 1730s and symbolized disregard for or defiance of death or danger.
Other units in German service adopted the symbol as did at least one British regiment, the 17th Lancers.
The 17th were kown as the Death or Glory Boys, from the the death’s head badge over the words “ or Glory”.
So while the SS were unquestionably in the service of evil, their insignia had nothing to do with a sense of being evil.
Interesting. I remember seeing photos of a WWI German General who for some reason wore a big bearskin hat that had a large death’s head mounted on it. I wondered about that because he clearly predated the Nazis.
What’s to regret? They’re in their 90’s now and have lived their lives pretty much unmolested.
“That we lost.”
In 84 I went backpacking in Europe meeting up with relatives.
Met up with one who was 18 y.o. at the start of the war and fought for Germany.
He said prior to the war Hitler made them feel like the whole world was coming after them. And they believed him.
With time they started to hear about the rumors of cruelity. A Jewish neighbors and friends of his parents disappeared one day. Towards the end of the war they were figuring out that Hitler was evil. He told me the best day of the war was when he arrived at the American’s German POW camp. He was treated better there than any German military camp!
Also on that trip went to meet family in the Socialist Utopian of Yugoslavia. I was shocked. What a police-state trash heap.
Who the hell is worried about that generation? It’s our current crop of filth that is the problem. Maybe those who escape the gallows can be similarly interviewed in 50 years.
Prussian Cavalry of the Napoleonic Wars:
Death's Head's Hussars - "Totenkopf-husaren" One regiment stood out above the others. It dressed in black and took as its badge a skull. The regiment became known as the Death's Head Hussars and struck fear into the enemy for many years. It was the 1st Life Hussar Regiment (1. Leib-Husaren-Regiment)
“They still haven’t condemned their “reporter” for covering up the Holodomor for Uncle Stalin.”
And even worse, the Pulitzer committee had a deliberate reexamination of his award, and decided NOT to rescind it.
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