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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: Larry Lucido
There are even more elderly commies living without regrets.

There's commies here today that would round up American citizens and murder us...

61 posted on 05/19/2021 3:37:51 PM PDT by GOPJ (Liz Cheney: There was NO VOTER FRAUD Winston. YOU agree Winston? Winston? How many fingers?)
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To: mass55th

Several camps were outright extermination camps such as Belzec. Almost nobody survived arrival longer than an hour.
A few were kept out as workers and they were processed through as well at regular intervals.
No labor there, just straight out murder.
Then there are the million murdered naked shot beside a ditch from Poland all the way east into Russia an Ukraine.
The nazis were a sick lot.


62 posted on 05/19/2021 3:43:59 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: DesertRhino

🙄😡


63 posted on 05/19/2021 3:45:09 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yes. It’s hard to believe that people can be so unwilling to accept history.

Too bad none of them got the opportunity to visit the Holocaust Museum.


64 posted on 05/19/2021 3:47:32 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
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To: DesertRhino
"The nazis were a sick lot."

Extremely so. The book "KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps" by Nikolaus Wachsmann is very thorough. It has a total of 626 pages of text, and another 239 pages of chapter notes, and documented source material.

65 posted on 05/19/2021 3:52:53 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
One of my vivid memories of the documentaries I've seen on the Nazis is hearing it said in one of them that during a visit to one of the concentration camps Himmler just happened to be near a prisoner who was shot in the head and some of that person's brain tissue wound up on his uniform and his face. The narrator said that he then became violently ill.

On a similar note I read once that Patton,while touring one of the recently liberated camps with Ike,Bradley and other top officers,became physically ill seeing the horrors.

66 posted on 05/19/2021 3:55:09 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Falconspeed

Some women who had abortions had a change of heart but others probably can’t really live with themselves and deny the reality of what they did.

My sister had an abortion and at first was thrilled to know that she was pregnant.

But her boyfriend talked her into it. After it was over, she called me and said, Jeff just brought me a bowl of ice cream.

I was speechless. I wanted to go over and shake her and say, this was not a cold or flu! You just took a human life!

Later on they got married and she had a miscarriage, lots of trouble conceiving but had two sons. Her youngest died of cancer at 9.

Life is a great gift, not to be thrown away.


67 posted on 05/19/2021 3:58:20 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill )
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To: ChicagoConservative27; BobL; Gene Eric; faithhopecharity; CrappieLuck; polymuser; ...

I remember reading in William Shire’s book Rise and Fall of the Third Reich that when Himmler recruited for his Einsatzgruppen for the attack on Russia that the regular German army was not interested, so he had to look elsewhere for his officers and enlisted. His most abundant source for officers was lawyers.


68 posted on 05/19/2021 4:00:13 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No surprise there - our current top of Nazis (Democrats) never regret anything they do no matter how dishonest illegal or immoral


69 posted on 05/19/2021 4:03:04 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Depending on exactly what these people personally did, can’t expect them to hold personal regrets. If they personally did things that’s one thing. But the rank and file folks were like everyone else just trying to survive in the system they are in...

So to think because someone was involved in thr Nazi party at some level is going to have huge guilt about their lives is an unrealistic expectation.

I haven’t seen the film so I don’t know which nazis he spoke to. If they were actual decision makers and drivers and knew all that was going on and have no guilt that’s one thing. If it is just some schlub peon and cog, wouldn’t expect them to be wracked by guilt


70 posted on 05/19/2021 4:08:30 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: lizma2
I used to work with a guy that was a Nazi youth. He told me stories I wish I recorded them now. Though he generally said was young and stupid. It was near the end of the war in Berlin life he said wasn't worth a "plumb nickel" he would say that over and over.

I could feel he was leaving something important out of the story because he kept repeating that life wasn't worth a plumb nickel and how some kids where "gun ho." His mission was to live. He would say no one gave a damb about each other.

He wanted to press the feelings he had at the time you could sense it in his face as he spoke.
71 posted on 05/19/2021 4:27:12 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t recall many Bolsheviks expressing regret killing millions of Russians....


72 posted on 05/19/2021 4:29:26 PM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So are all Demon-crats. I’m not surprised. Just look at New York, Chicago, LA, the rest of New York state and California, too. Brainwashed for most of my 50+ years.


73 posted on 05/19/2021 4:39:29 PM PDT by ro_dreaming ("XX = female; XY = male. Who's the science deniers now?" - Me)
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To: Retain Mike

ha!
very interesting indeed.

every society in history has had its acerbic remarks about lawyers and judges, especially when they become abusive or corrupt or both

goes back something like 3000 years and of course includes many in the western tradition like Shakespeare (and the Bible), also the Book of Mormon while we are at it


74 posted on 05/19/2021 5:05:08 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not created, they're excreted." Cicero 2000 years ago)
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To: BlueLancer
I found the guy! Field Marshal August von Mackenson. Apparently, Mackenson commanded the regiment you posted at one time and just kept wearing the hat.


75 posted on 05/19/2021 5:15:49 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Do demoncraps have any issue with Hammas/“Palestineans” destroying the Jews now. Communists/socialists hate Jews still today. Just ask democrats. Why pick on German haters. We have plenty including 70+% of American Jews.


76 posted on 05/19/2021 5:25:59 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Tag line for rent)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

I think the Germans finally realized they were used by the ruling elites.

I hope we realize that the elites are trying to repeat this here before it’s too late.


77 posted on 05/19/2021 5:27:54 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Half of this country will replace them, soon.


78 posted on 05/19/2021 5:46:03 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: farming pharmer

I was working with the Soviets when the horrors of Stalin were published by Gorbachev. The were shocked, refused to believe it, and horribly saddened and broken.


79 posted on 05/19/2021 5:54:33 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Larry Lucido

And there are very young commmies in existence.


80 posted on 05/19/2021 5:56:50 PM PDT by Az Joe (FREE CHAUVIN!)
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