I just watched Ordinary Men "The Forgotten Holocaust" on Netflix, a documentary of the German Nazi police forces that followed behind their military to basically execute Jews and other undesirable.
A most interesting analysis of their actions in the eastern European countries.
And the EXTREME UGLY TRUTH is the revelation that out of 172,000 men in these death squads, less than 500 were indicted and convicted. We are talking about thousands of these murderers that were officers that ordered the shooting of tens of thousands of people, and the transport of hundreds of thousands to the death camps, returning to life in Germany and suffering no legal consequences whatsoever. They mass murdered 2 million people according to this video.
And the American Benjamin Ferencz, an investigator for the Nuremburg trials actually posed the question in the video comparing the holocaust and the bombing of Hiromshima, like they are one in the same. No wonder few people met justice post WWII with mindsets like this putz.
And here is the shocker. Men were told if they did not want to participate, they had the right to decline going out every day and murdering men women and children. And men did decline. They were abused status wise, forced to cleaning latrines and such, but they did not have their life threatened, or forced to the Russian front nonsense.
So, from a morality perspective, they were given a choice. And they show a video in this documentary where 12 men opted not to participate. 12!!!!!!!!!! So, it wasn't 1 or 2, it was 12. And yet the rest went out each day and murdered tens of thousands, and some of them doing it with brutal delight, and they got to return to Germany and live out their lives.
I had no idea. I thought the officers that participated in this got a rope. But no, just a handful received justice.
