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Comment on N the digital age, it's going to be harder for ICE agents to hide their identities than it was for Nazis trying to evade justice post WW2.

janonymous@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Sorry to say that the fast majority of German Nazis did not only get off without any form of repercussions after 1945, they often even kept their jobs in government. The Nürnberg and subsequent trials only covered the high profile cases, that had not successfully fled. For the Nürnberg trials that were 22 people, while the subsequent trials only found 2,500 of 100,000 arrested Germans guilty of war crimes. Of those only 177 were tried, 142 were convinced and 25 were sentenced to death. These numbers also exclude the 1,600 German scientists, engineers and technicians that the US government took with project paperclip.

And it wasn’t for a lack of documents.

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Ileftreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There are a surprising amount of German surnames in Argentina and Brazil

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- WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Those were the evil Germans immigrating after the war. Not to be confused with the fine upstanding Ohio Hitlers.
  
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TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
One stay in Germany and become the rector of a managerial university, died in 2000ish with national funeral

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MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You are a source of joy to the regime.

They very much enjoy all discussion that suggests that they can do what they want, and get away with it.

Excellent work on discouraging resistance.

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- janonymous@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  What? I’m saying the Nürnberg trials should have been much larger and stricter. I’m saying don’t just hope that some outside force will bring justice, because historically that just won’t happen. It’s just coping. It is not resistance.
  
  The reaction to these old Nazis remaining in power lead to the founding of the RAF, who decided to actually do something about it. If necessary with violence. It’s a fascinating piece of history that explains why Germany, despite the defeat, remained pretty conservative and it’s justice system remained “blind on it’s right eye”.
  
  If you make a historical comparison, maybe read up on it instead of getting mad at someone pointing out a misconception.
  
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