A lot of today’s problems, like the rise of the KKK, stochastic terrorism, and infiltration of law enforcement by neo-nazis, can be traced back to an insufficient number of Confederates being hanged after the war.
I doubt this was the case during (and for at least a time after) WWII. But maybe a history buff can correct me. I haven’t looked too deeply into how the justice system handled Nazis that far back.
Before the war, they were treated very leniently. Nobody was charged in the Businessmen’s Plot, the leaders of the German-American Bund were left alone, companies like IBM and Ford that traded with the Nazis were never punished for it, and even after the war, during the Red Scare, people were put under suspicion for “premature anti-fascism.”
Nazis are always treated with kid gloves by the US “justice” system. Same as it ever was.
Like Trump?
And many others.
Nowhere near that deeply complicit. These are just garden-variety traitors.
A lot of today’s problems, like the rise of the KKK, stochastic terrorism, and infiltration of law enforcement by neo-nazis, can be traced back to an insufficient number of Confederates being hanged after the war.
I doubt this was the case during (and for at least a time after) WWII. But maybe a history buff can correct me. I haven’t looked too deeply into how the justice system handled Nazis that far back.
The US loved to hire Nazi scientists after the war.
Before the war, they were treated very leniently. Nobody was charged in the Businessmen’s Plot, the leaders of the German-American Bund were left alone, companies like IBM and Ford that traded with the Nazis were never punished for it, and even after the war, during the Red Scare, people were put under suspicion for “premature anti-fascism.”
George Bush Sr’s dad was a literal co-conspirator to overthrow US democracy and install a Nazi government.