• PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m not sure that’s accurate. I mean, Heusinger, who was a high-ranking member of the Wehrmacht, was later a West German general, and a Chairman at NATO. Definitely striking, but not the only similar example. Denazification was woefully incomplete.

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        2 months ago

        Genocide? It feels like you’re making a few leaps of logic there.

        Either way, if they were a high ranking military commander in nazi Germany, they likely didn’t get there by being nice and virtuous. To place them in another centre of power seems a little odd, at the very least.