挂路灯人

none of the High Command got away with it.

If only that were true

Johann von Kielmansegg, General Staff officer to the High Command of the Wehrmacht, 1942-44, was NATO’s Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe, 1967-68.

Some more names I found:

– Sturmführer Dr. Eberhard Taubert worked with Goebbels in the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda where he was responsible for designing the yellow badge for Jews. After the war, he eventually became an adviser to ex-Nazi Franz Josef Strauss, German Minister of Defence from 1956-62, and was assigned by Strauss to NATO’s “Psychological Warfare Department” .

– Nazi Admiral and U-Boat commander Friedrich Guggenberger, whose U-boat sank 17 allied ships, later served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the NATO command Armed Forces North (AFNORTH) 1968-72.

– Johannes Steinhoff, a Luftwaffe fighter pilot, was made Chairman of the NATO Military Committee 1971-74, holding other NATO positions prior to that.

– Ernst Ferber, a major in the Wehrmacht, was NATO’s Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe, 1973-75.

– Karl Schnell, First General Staff officer of the LXXVI Panzer Corps, was NATO’s Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe, 1975-77.

– Franz Joseph Schulze, Chief of the Third Battery of the Flak Storm Regiment 241, was NATO’s Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe, 1977-79.

– Ferdinand von Senger und Etterline, Lieutenant of the 24th Panzer Division of the German Sixth Army, was NATO’s Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe, 1979-83.

And this is all just NATO not to mind other positions of power such as:

— West German Chief of Staff Hans Globke, Globke drafted the legal commentary on the 1935 Nuremberg laws, legalising the exclusion of Jews from public life, the theft of their assets and opening the door to their eventual murder. It was Globke’s idea to put a “J” in every Jewish citizen’s identity papers, alongside their new middle names: “Israel” for men, “Sara” for women. Globke’s fingerprints were also on laws outlawing “racial disgrace” – relations between Jews and “Aryans”. After the war, Globke confessed that he knew all about the Shoah, the industrialised murder of European Jews.

— Kurt Georg Kiesinger, served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1 December 1966 to 21 October 1969. Before he became chancellor, he served as Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg from 1958 to 1966 and as President of the Bundesrat from 1962 to 1963. He was chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1967 to 1971. In 1940 he was appointed to the broadcast policy department of the Foreign Office by Joachim von Ribbentrop, and became deputy head of the broadcasting and propaganda departments in 1942.

— The brutal Butcher of Lyon, notorious Nazi Klaus Barbie spent the Second World War torturing children and sending whole families to the death camps. But when the conflict ended, the Gestapo captain didn’t face instant arrest and swift justice. Instead, the US allowed him to start a new life as a CIA spy, smuggling him into Bolivia where he helped hunt and kill the revolutionary Che Guevara among other atrocities.

— General Reinhard Gehlen, the German army’s intelligence chief for the Eastern Front during World War II. At the end of the war, Gehlen established a close relationship with the U.S. and successfully maintained his intelligence network (it ultimately became the West German BND) even though he employed numerous former Nazis and known war criminals.

And also on Eichmann specifically:

The CIA concealed the whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the 1950s for fear he might expose undercover anticommunist efforts in West Germany, according to documents released

Try to name your son Mohamed in Xinjiang.

I know a few. This insinuation really falls on its face when you have experience with Xinjiang beyond the atrocity propaganda.

Also is this the famous whataboutism I hear people crying about so often?

Really punished those high ranking Nazis like, off the top of my head, Adolf Heusinger and Hans Speidel by checks notes making them Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee and Commander of the Allied Land Forces Central Europe (COMLANDCENT) respectively?

Ok? So? Good for you or I’m sorry for your loss?

The irony of a Chinese person making this statement is sending me.

Could you please point me to where they say anything about the CPC?

Would it be ironic if you said you were against pedophilia if you were/are American?

Very obviously a knee jerk racist remark but you hate China so obviously you need to play devils advocate and try act like it’s something it’s not.

Not particularly ironic if you’re not an orientalist. I hope it “sends” you into some introspection and research.

You really are terrified of introspection.

I’m not putting words in your mouth. You can put all the flowery language on it you like but what you are saying at its core is that you want there to be a list made of people you believe to be “pro putinist” (a vague nonsense label just like how many other people on Lemmy like calling anyone who disagrees with them a bot or shill) as you find them undesirable and that they should face consequences.

If you don’t like how that sounds instead of lashing out you should introspect and really get to the core of what lead you to advocating for this without facing the core of the idea.

Ok so you find “pro putinists” undesirable and you wish to put together a list so that you can do “the right thing” and bar them from certain positions?

So to put it very briefly you want to put together a list of “undesirables” and enact “justice”/consequences upon them?

Did you not read the image you posted? Or are you doing the famous dog whistle I’ve heard so much about so you’re going to play dumb to the obvious implication and history?

You don’t see how making lists of “undesirables” to enact “justice” upon is reminiscent?

how does scribbling down a name warrant a comparison to Nazi Germany?

You don’t see how making lists of “undesirables” to enact “justice” upon is reminiscent?

Thank you for the notification obergruppenfuhrer I look forward to your attempt to extradite me from China for the crime of being Chinese.

Well what else was he supposed to do with all that free time between writing his mediocre books and being a sex pest.

Europeans making lists of “undesirables” I am shocked /s.

Something something first as tragedy second as farce.

Have you considered taking part in the White people try not to push orientalist fantasies about China in regards to parts of our society they don’t understand challenge?

That’s fair I’m glad we agree so.

Ok so you agree then that when analysing these issues we have to start with their relation to class? That gender and racial discrimination are at their core subsets of the class struggle which makes up the bedrock upon which they are built?

That we should only focus on class issues and then once that’s solved, we can move on to racial and sexist issues.

That’s not at all what I’m saying. So I was right you didn’t understand what I was saying.