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TibotPhinaut t1_j4hy5wr wrote

The only nation to own up to it's past in an upstanding way? Yea that would be us

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PhillipLlerenas t1_j4j6xjq wrote

Germans did a masterful work of protecting its Nazis for decades after World War II.

And when you did bring them to trial you were amazing at giving them 3-5 years in prison for murdering hundreds of thousands of Jews.

Sit down.

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TibotPhinaut t1_j4kax9q wrote

How's all that prosecution of US war crimes in Afghanistan, Vietnam and Iraq coming along?

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PhillipLlerenas t1_j4kvkgu wrote

Let’s ask Walter (Ernst) Burmeister, SS man who operated gas vans at Chelmno extermination camp and helped kill 152,000 Jews and was sentenced to a leisurely 3 and a half years in prison by a German court in Bonn:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chełmno_trials

Or SS-Unterscharführer Gustav Münzberger, gas chamber operator at Treblinka, who helped murder 800,000 Jews and was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. Don’t worry tho….he served six years and was released on good behavior in 1971:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Münzberger

If I was a mass murdering anti semite I know exactly where in the planet I’d like to be after the war.

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CupResponsible797 t1_j4lcln9 wrote

As well as you'd expect any war crimes prosecutions to go. The laws of war are not very strict to begin with, gathering evidence tends to be extremely challenging. Even locating known witnesses in such countries for interviews is a tremendously difficult task.

There have been more than a hundred people court-martialed in the US over war crimes during the conflicts you mention.

Some of the famous cases that come to mind were almost certainly not war crimes. Perhaps they should be, but according to the laws of war, they weren't.

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Carbon_60 t1_j4hz9lr wrote

Did your collective remorse undie multi millions of people? I'm glad you're sad about it but your still being an asshat

Your country perpetrated the 2 worst wars the planet has ever seen and your like "Iraq! Hiroshima/Nagasaki!" No one would have died via atomic bomb in ww2 if you guys hadn't started it

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TibotPhinaut t1_j4i0d06 wrote

The mental reasoning of a 14 year old at work, fascinating

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Carbon_60 t1_j4i0stf wrote

Ahhh yes. The pillar of a good argument right here.

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ClemDev t1_j4jg5i0 wrote

Well you do also have the worst past and we had to beat your ass back into your box twice so it would be hard to try and deny it. Germany still acts like a puppy that shit on the couch in world politics. You’re all scared to catch your own reflection in the mirror.

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