https://twitter.com/FloydLuther1/status/1566559557647622146
they very notably did.
Waldheim was in a regiment that massacred Serbian civilians in Yugoslavia, Von Braun used concentration camp slave labor to build bombs to kill civilians, Heusinger was involved in the planning of the invasions of Poland, the Soviet union, Denmark, Norway and France.
this isn't hard to look up and the von Braun one is even common knowledge
Another one that comes to mind is Klaus Barbie, one of the torturers that worked in Vichy France, was sentenced to death in absentia by the post-war French government, but was working for US intelligence (probably torturing communists) in the post-war period.
It rocks that Americans took him in to do intelligence and France later was like :shocked-pikachu: wait your rat lines included people who did war crimes against us too??
I hate the way people talk about "redemption" in general in the context of politics. Obviously Nazis should get the wall, but in general, if somebody used their position of power to do shitty things, and now they've changed and want to do better - fine, I can accept that, just get the fuck out of politics. Go volunteer at a soup kitchen or scrub floors at a monastery or idk, just wait tables or some shit. Live out the rest of your life in humble penance, maybe trying to make things better in some small way. But if you're still trying to be in charge of things, and just want to keep playing the game, but for good now, you swear, then you haven't changed at all, and chances are the only thing you regret about your past actions is that they're hurting you now politically. The concepts of redemption and forgiveness, so central to Christianity, pretty much exclusively apply to the rich and powerful, and to the extent that they can get away with anything if they just say, "I'm sorry."
So no, people can't have "redemption," fuck you. I'm so tired of these chucklefucks thinking they can invoke some magic words and everything is set right again, just total refusal to hold anyone accountable for their actions.
Remembering that horrible marvel movie where it was revealed the nazis "secretly infiltrated" the US government after world war 2 and corrupted it to trick America into doing bad things.
Social fascist running defense for fascists?
Colour me shocked and surprised:surprised-pika:
Gather round while I sing you of Werner von Braun
A man who's allegiance is ruled by expedience
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
"Nazi, schmazi" Says Werner von Braun
Ignoring the fact that "Clean Wehrmacht" myth is US-pushed bullshit, Adolf Heusinger in particular wasn't just some innocent rando who got rehabilitated. He was one of the architects of the axis invasion of France.
https://i.ibb.co/JKmGngh/NATO-Nazis-Case-Conflict.png
See also: Schnezz Truppe, Reinhard Gehlen, Klaus Barbie, the role of American corporations in the rise of the 3rd reich and the carrying out of the holocaust, etc.
