They (together with the other Allies) actually put them on proper trial after WW2 and didn‘t lynch them. The length they went to, to uphold such principles, is perhaps something worth trying to fathom for current generations.
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This is revisionist history. Yes many Nazis were put on trial, but many were not. Many were executed on sight in ways that would violate the Geneva convention following their capture. The idea that the allies “upheld principles” is only partially accurate.
Of course, in combat. But not as a norm and a method. Crucially, not with the higher ranks that were put on trial in Nürnberg. Study and learn from the thinking and decision making of the time of why going through all of it was right, if you could instead just kill them all, since: just Nazis.
I agree that principled and morally-conscious actions should be the preferred way to go forward with this issue, but trying to paint WW2 in a way that describes the allies in the way that you have is incredibly inaccurate in my opinion.
Of course it is inaccurate. This is bluesky, not an in-depth seminar on the real complications of fighting wars where we can go and admire every intricacy and relativation. The core advice remains the same, though.
I’m not talking about combat… I’m talking about blindfolded 15 year old Nazi soldiers with their hands tied behind their back being brutally executed by their captors… The allies did some fucked up shit too is the point, and the naivety to suggest otherwise comes off incredibly misinformed.
I‘d be the last who sais these things didn‘t happen or won‘t ever happen. But if you want to have any ethical leg to stand on, don‘t normalise it as the right thing to do.
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