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How many Germans would you have executed in 1945? A third of Germans voted for Hitler 1933 and many more supported the Nazis materially and socially in the decades since.
So would you let Auschwitz run for another couple years while shuffling 10 million Germans into the gas chambers? 25 million? 50 million? What would you do with the millions of children you orphaned? What of the children who are swearing revenge? Do you wait for them to turn 18 before sending them to the gas chambers?
Nazis don't deserve the bullet. The bullet is often the best we can give them, but it also often isn't. Daryl Davis did good, and there is a decent chunk of leftists who had a "Nazi phase" because they had to learn solidarity by themselves and I'm glad they got out, whether it was by their own power or by people choosing to help them.
I wouldn't blame anyone for deciding a Nazi isn't worth the effort and giving them lead instead. I wouldn't even blame people for saying Nazis are inhuman or deserve the bullet as coping mechanisms when fighting Nazis in a necessary war.
But if we have the time, then let us see them as people who don't deserve the bullet but who endanger others so much that a bullet is an acceptable solution.
Bro what the fuck is this comment? If you push yourself to where you will physically go kill or oppress someone else for your nazi beliefs that is when you deserve the bullet. If you are just on the fringes of the ideology you can still be saved, but if you are actively enforcing it, fuck you. Then yes we need some rigid education to teach the children why their father deserved to die. And if the education doesn't work, then society should be able to push their views in the right direction through our complex social dynamics. And if that doesn't work then I guess we just have another fucking Nazi to get rid of. Yeah.
Now if you're done confusing my intentions, I think I'm clear in my statement.
So you'll execute a concentration camp guard who couldn't find any other job to feed his family as the bombs were raining down, but not a Nazi-voting rich bloke who laughed in glee when his Jewish neighbor was dragged into a van to be executed?
Or is enforcement not actually the criterion?
This is why I asked you how many Germans you would execute. It's a good indicator for what your standards are, how distantly removed one needs to be to deserve the death penalty in your opinion.
And of course killing a large number of people is going to have to be done somehow. If you truly believe X million people deserve to die, what is the problem with using the conveniently located camps that were just used for killing Y million people?
I'm not 100% sure if you're so put off by this specifically, but if killing several million Germans in Auschwitz reads to you as an insulting parody of your beliefs rather than as poetic justice, then ask yourself again if you truly think in your heart of hearts that they deserve to die.
If you're fine with using Auschwitz as (one of) the site(s) for killing millions of Germans who have given their unconditional surrender, disregard the above paragraph.