They were defeated, they did not change their minds. That generation mostly got away with their crimes, but they had to move on, you cant send every citizen to the courts, it's not practical. Nuremberg dealt with the engineers, not the oily rags.
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Did he write a memoir because that would be fascinating to read?
Perceived victimhood was the catalyst for the rise of Nazism, so it's unsurprising that perceived victimhood birthed self absolution for the resulting crimes.
The modern world should exercise caution in using blame as a weapon.
He wrote linguistics books and textbooks and papers, (Leon Dostert), but not about his WWII service -wish he had, he was in the OSS, dropped into N. Africa, then interpreted Eisenhower's speeches in Paris.
I suppose the unwritten rule in intelligence is never to talk. What a remarkable war and how wonderful to be related to, and to have known, him. We will never know what that generation went through, the choices they had to make, and what they witnessed. We're lucky.
Unfortunately, I last saw him when I was five, after my parents divorce - he died of a heart attack at a lingustics conference in Turkey when I was 16. I have his books, and cool pictures of him with both Eisenhower and FDR, though. Wish I could have known him better!
I would love to know how it affected their health. All that hate. Carrying the hate ( if they never felt remorse or guilt) to their graves. I’m speaking of the people who rounded up and then killed 12 million Jews and others in camps.
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Told my mother the Germans denied TO THEMSELVES that they had known. Most considered Germany the victim.
Perceived victimhood was the catalyst for the rise of Nazism, so it's unsurprising that perceived victimhood birthed self absolution for the resulting crimes.
The modern world should exercise caution in using blame as a weapon.
https://www.oxy.edu/magazine/issues/fall-2015/trials-and-triumphs-leon-dostert-28
-he appears in books on the early OSS, too.
https://youtu.be/Yq-kzPKt008?si=VTRQDkkoBntkW_yY