• Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Listen. It is one of the hardest cases to discern guilt in wartime situations. Membership of the nazi parti or being a german soldier is not per se a sign of guilt. Just like just being a jew is no reason to be killed, too. I’m all for sentencing war criminals, but the soldier killed by bear jew nor the people sitting in the cinema (aside from Hitlers direct circle) have been proven to be guilty of war crimes.

    If you applaud them burning, you’re basicly using the same system of dehumanising a group of people as the nazi party and the SS used for making people belief sloughtering jews, gypsies, gay people is ok. That is very, very wrong.

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        1 year ago

        It’s always based and cool to kill a Nazi.

        And nobody has been confusing a German soldier with a gun to their back and a Nazi that bounded forward with exuberance. There’s always a difference in an indictment, one is where you have failed to hold your countrymen accountable, and the other where you worked to actively support those acts. Both are worth being ashamed. Both might be sentenced to death. One will be viewed with pity, and the other with disgust. There’s nothing to be scared of in this paradigm unless you are willing to tolerate or perpetrate acts like these.

        • DigitalJacobin@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          You’re forgetting that they still had an ethical alternative to supporting fascism. Just perhaps not a pleasant one.