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.
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.