I didn’t say anything of the sort. You abstracted my post into regions that it didn’t cover.
No, not every German was a Nazi and there is a reason why the Nürnberger Prozesse were as difficult as they were. There are difficult questions there:
When does doing nothing become a crime?
Who could be expected to do something and who couldn’t?
Who wanted the atrocities to happen?
Yet, that does not apply to someone who joined the SS. The SS displayed itself as a cultish and devoted NS Organisation on every occasion possible. Everyone in the conquered territories was bound to see or hear how they rolled. That’s how they subdued the local population. Someone who joined this organization, regardless of the motives for doing so, took this into account and at least ignored it. You could not be successful in the SS without devotion to the Nazi cause, so you’d have to at least pay lip service to it. In that case, that is enough to make you guilty.
We are not talking about a father of three who joined the NSDAP to get his kids into a better school or something, we are talking about the SS.
And how is everyone who fights communism in that group? Not everyone who fought communism (god, that phrase feels weird) was part of a cultish Nazi death squad.
Doesn’t matter. If you join the enemy, you become the enemy
With that altitude everyone in Germany and their annexed territorys was a Nazi and everyone fighting communism as well…
Man the fucking world isn’t just black and white. Grow up.
I didn’t say anything of the sort. You abstracted my post into regions that it didn’t cover. No, not every German was a Nazi and there is a reason why the Nürnberger Prozesse were as difficult as they were. There are difficult questions there:
When does doing nothing become a crime? Who could be expected to do something and who couldn’t? Who wanted the atrocities to happen?
Yet, that does not apply to someone who joined the SS. The SS displayed itself as a cultish and devoted NS Organisation on every occasion possible. Everyone in the conquered territories was bound to see or hear how they rolled. That’s how they subdued the local population. Someone who joined this organization, regardless of the motives for doing so, took this into account and at least ignored it. You could not be successful in the SS without devotion to the Nazi cause, so you’d have to at least pay lip service to it. In that case, that is enough to make you guilty.
We are not talking about a father of three who joined the NSDAP to get his kids into a better school or something, we are talking about the SS.
And how is everyone who fights communism in that group? Not everyone who fought communism (god, that phrase feels weird) was part of a cultish Nazi death squad.