US Removes Man Who Served as Concentration Camp Guard in Nazi Germany
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Most concentration camp guards were just that, guards on duty - not crazed psychos as they have been portrayed. I am old enough to have spoken to many who lived through the war, some even in camps; they said that the Germans were mostly decent and disciplined - no rapes or looting etc. Strange that far worse atrocities committed by other nations have not been given the same degree of exposure, it was always the Germans who got the bad press. Just like the biased, unresearched "journalism" we see to day.
Not true at all as far as other nations not given the same degree of exposure. Japanese were tried for war crimes. Chinse have never forgiven or forgotten. Ukrainians who volunteered and were part of Einsatzgruppen were tried. No one said the guards were "crazed psychos" and they haven't generally been portrayed as such. They were mostly bureaucrats, sometimes unfit for front line service. That makes it even worse.
Don't remember any exposures concerning war crimes in the Balkans and many other European countries. The Ukrainians were dealt with only because the Soviets hated them for allying with Germany because of the Holdomor. Apart from Katyn, Russian atrocities are unknown. And then there are the 1,000s of German prisoners of war who were deliberately starved on Eisenhower's orders after the war ended? No end to it; let those who are without sin cast the first stone.
As for "They were mostly bureaucrats, sometimes unfit for front line service. That makes it even worse." Why they were worse?
Russian atrocities were unknown? 90% of German enlisted POW's died in captivity, while 10% of German officers died.