Sean O'Hara <seanohara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Why? Germany still prosecuted genuine crimes like rape and murder
> under the Nazi regime, ...
Anyone convicted of those genuine crimes by the Nazi regime should
have been given the benefit of the doubt, and freed.
If a criminal gang tem****arily took over your town, should its
decisions be honored as the acts of a legitimate government?
> Simply reversing every conviction from 1933 to 1945 would set loose
> people who belonged in jail,
Yes. And when a hospital emergency room saves someone who had been
shot, they may be setting loose someone who the world is better off
without. Just because someone was shot by a criminal gang member
doesn't necessarily mean they're a good guy.
> and given the state of Germany at the time, giving everyone a new
> trial (which would require tracking down witnesses, many of whom
> were dead, and evidence, much of which would've been destroyed)
> would've been infeasible.
That's why I think they should all have simply been freed and had
their records expunged. Any who were genuine criminals would be back
in jail soon enough. If they'd victimize a few innocent people first,
well, the damage to innocent German civilians would be far less than
the Allies had already done.
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