• Roundcat@lemmy.ca
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    Japan: We have medical knowledge from… experiments, and we’ll forever be your economic bitch!

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    Promising a deal that includes citizenship, a house, a salary, and an administrative position to a Nazi scientist in exchange for their work and knowledge such that one’s country can gain ground in a cold war is absolutely fine. It’s absolutely totally fine.

    Following through with the deal after getting the goods from the Nazi is not. Shoot the Nazi. You always shoot the Nazi.

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        I apologize if I’m misreading. Are you suggesting that it would be wrong to shoot a Nazi?

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          After promising safety in exchange for cooperation, and presumably without having convicted them of anything besides their former party affiliation?

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            Ah, now I will admit to there having been a potential nuance. I certainly would want a trial before an execution, for instance. But I also think it would be wrong to assume these scientists were completely morally innocent. Maybe I could be persuaded from my earlier opinion of “You always shoot a Nazi” but there needs to be something to show. A diary entry saying “I’m not sure about this Hitler fella.” Something.

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              Either trial him OR make a deal. You cant make a deal and after getting what you want proceed to trial him.

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              What you’re suggesting is stooping to the level of the nazi cruelty by a complete breach of agreement even after the other party has fulfilled their terms. Also what was that pathetic attempt at baiting the other guy by saying: “aRe yOu SuGgEsTiNg iT iS wRoNg tO sHoOt NaZiS?!!”. Like that wasn’t even the point of the other guy.

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          I think many of the scientists weren’t Nazis, but rather forced to work for the Nazis, fearing for their and their family’s lives. I could be wrong though, it has been a while since I’ve investigated that matter.

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            To be frank, it would be hard to siphon out truth from fiction at this point from personal accounts. That said, of course I distinguish between a forced Nazi accomplice and a sympathizer. I am not suggesting that they should be treated the same. I am suggesting that the U.S. was so zealous in its efforts to defeat the Russians that it wasn’t making distinctions.

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              didn’t Hitler get the idea of concentration camps from the US?

              I think you are idolizing US in this a bit too much, they weren’t exactly much better than the nazis.

              I mean I know for sure Eugenics were a popular idea in the US during that time, PoC were treated terribly etc.

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    At least von braun and his ilk contributed to science. The same cannot be said for the japanese war criminals behind unit 731, 1855 etc. they were let off scot free for the results of their fucking evil, psychopathic, sadistic GARBAGE “science”/“experimentation” 99% of which had no debatable value whatsoever.

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      And yet there are still plenty of people online who will defend Japan and say that the US shouldn’t have ended the war as quickly as possible. Reading about what Unit 731 did makes the concentration camps seem humane in comparison, and I don’t say that lightly. Even today, Japan refuses to acknowledge the crimes against humanity that their soldiers committed.

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        Japan refuses to acknowledge fucking anything. They call pearl harbor “the great accident/mistake” — they are taught that they HAD to attack the US because we were being hostile and cut off their access to oil, what they don’t teach is WHY we did that. Including all the atrocities they committed in their invasion of china and indonesia.

        It’s incredibly frustrating how we’ve just allowed them to brush the whole war under the proverbial rug. Their nationalistic revisions to their text books paint them as victims when in reality they were fucking monsters.

        Germany admits their wrongs and thoroughly educates every student about them, which is part of the reason why nobody resents or holds present-day germans accountable for the Nazi’s actions. Japan’s unwillingness to do the same is wrong.

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    Actually, none of the scientists were found guilty of a crime. (And several of them were investigated.)

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      But what are we going to do with all these pitchforks if we listen to reason?

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      You actually believe that? The people who claim that people like Werner von Braun didn’t commit any crimes are the CIA and Braun himself. All of the records from Germany were destroyed. It’s essentially just taking his word on it to believe he was only involved because “he had to be.”

      He was literally a member of the SS, the wing of the nazi government that was directly responsible for the Holocaust. He was photographed repeatedly with himmler himself, in uniform. He claimed that those were just ceremonial photos that he had to participate in the keep his career. He also claimed not to agree with the Nazis politically.

      Why would you believe anything that a member of the SS said? Especially one as important to the Nazis as von Braun was.

      Of fucking course he was never found guilty of any war crimes, the US was actively trying to recruit him. They didn’t want to prosecute their newest asset, a man who directly led to the US becoming the globally dominant force it became during the space race. He was useful so the US government deliberately didn’t investigate him seriously, took him at his word that he totally wasn’t a real nazi, and then used him to invent more rockets for them.

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    What war crimes would German military scientists have been executed for anyway? Out of all the Nazi’s tried, only 11 were actually executed by the IMT, and thsse were the top, top brass of the party. The Mossad might have tracked down and killed a few more in the decades following, but that was way after the time that this meme references.