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by emergie 611 days ago
Oak Park guy is a little fish. Nuernberger trial was mostly a vae victis show. They hanged few high level Germans and left tens of thousands of war criminals free. Adenauer's governments (1949-1963) were full of former nazis, amnesties of 1949 and 1954 cleared the slate of many mass murderers.
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He was a little fish, yes, but the effort to prevent his deportation was part of something much bigger, carefully organized, and, in retrospect, pretty gross.