• thedarkfly@feddit.nl
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    I can’t find anything on Walter Hallstein and Adolf Heusinger being nazis or committing war crimes. Looks like the former was an academic drafted in the army and the latter a high-ranking officer who began his career before the nazis.

    I get that Heusinger can be seen as complicit (he must have known for whom he worked and didn’t quit), but what about Hallstein?

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    When US citizens say their great uncle killed Nazis, they want to say they killed drafted cannon fodder.

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    Read something interesting earlier on Folke Bernadotte’s Wiki. Where is it…

    In April 1945, Heinrich Himmler asked Bernadotte to convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of Adolf Hitler. The main point of the proposal was that Germany would surrender only to the Western Allies (the United Kingdom and the United States), but would be allowed to continue resisting the Soviet Union.

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      Right after WWII, the US rehabilitated its “enemies,” Germany, Italy, and Japan, while starting the Cold War with its “ally,” the USSR. Rehabilitating Germany & Japan was important for the US’ containment strategy against the USSR.

      If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible […]. — Senator and future president Harry S. Truman, 1941

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    Funny how Russia’s Operation Osoaviakhim did the exact same thing, they were just worse at it. This thread is Russian backed propaganda.

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      Operation Osoaviakhim did the exact same thing

      Cope, no it didn’t. The US gave ex Nazis leadership positions, the soviets did the pragmatic thing and only extracted useful knowledge and executed them if they refused

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      You live in a larp world where everyone who disagrees with you is a Russian government agent lmao

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          For reference, LARP means live-action role-playing. Dressup fun activities for nerds. People who are too online call each other larpers both ironically or otherwise when mocking the validity of their ideology.

          Implying someone is secretly a Russian operative for using a word you don’t know is so illustrative of their point that I’m starting to think it’s a bit. Great job if it is.

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      Did you know that le soviets are the exact same evil as le Nazis??? (I’m very smart)

      Double genocide theory is a form of holocaust denial you dipshit

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        and also before its read wrong im not criticizing the people they did hang but people Arno von Lenski and Kurt Nier who got away with their crimes, maintained power and shielded friends because they agreed to collaborate with soviets letting this happen the wrong call .

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          Arno von Lenski and Kurt Nier

          1. DDR was not part of the Soviet union
          2. Rehabilitation back into society should be an option
          3. Denazification was still way more thorough in the DDR than the GDR
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        When did i say anything even remotely like that just that soviet denazification wasn’t as thorough as some like to pretend?

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            some were given a pass for convenience and even if much much less than the west “ex”-nazis still about 10% of large parts of east german goverment and people like Arno von Lenski and Kurt Nier got away with their crimes, maintained power and shielded friends because they agreed to collaborate with soviets letting this happen the wrong call .