The fact that confederates were allowed to “heal” is why we are in the shit we are today. They didn’t let (all of the) Nazis off the hook to “heal” Germany after WW2.
I mean, yes, more Nazis should have been executed, but enough were executed, and the tendency of states to defend their own irrevocable decisions, that Germany society managed to limp along until the 60s, when the next generation, brought up in a milieu of “Killing and imprisoning brutal war criminals was Good, Actually”, managed to change the predominant current of German society to not merely ‘not Nazi’ but to actively anti-Nazi.
We, on the other hand, by sparing all the fucking slavers and allowing them to rejoin society in the name of ‘healing’ managed to create our own festering Lost Cause wound that persists even now, 150 years later.
The fact that confederates were allowed to “heal” is why we are in the shit we are today. They didn’t let (all of the) Nazis off the hook to “heal” Germany after WW2.
Uh got some bad news for you about how many Nazis were let off the hook. Everyone in the ss should have been executed
I mean, yes, more Nazis should have been executed, but enough were executed, and the tendency of states to defend their own irrevocable decisions, that Germany society managed to limp along until the 60s, when the next generation, brought up in a milieu of “Killing and imprisoning brutal war criminals was Good, Actually”, managed to change the predominant current of German society to not merely ‘not Nazi’ but to actively anti-Nazi.
We, on the other hand, by sparing all the fucking slavers and allowing them to rejoin society in the name of ‘healing’ managed to create our own festering Lost Cause wound that persists even now, 150 years later.
Operation Paperclip
The harsh treatment of Germany in WW1 led directly to WW2. And it appears to me that a significant number of nazis escaped.