No link because it’s from discord and I am but a lib. Comes pre-dunked though.
How it was that Weiss was chosen for the small American allotment was even more of a mystery, since compared with Britain, Russia and other havens, the United States placed tight restrictions on Jewish refugees.
:curious-marx:
Ferencz prosecuted members of the Einsatzgruppen. “There were 3,000 members of these killing squads who did nothing but kill women and children for three straight years,” he says. "These 3,000 men alone were responsible for almost 1 million murders. Do you know how many I brought indictments against? Twenty-two. The rest were never tried.
“I remember talking to Soviet officers,” he adds. “And they were baffled. ‘You know they’re guilty,’ they’d say. ‘Why don’t you just shoot them?’ There was a lot of that kind of feeling in postwar Germany.”
Hey look, that’s what happened to all those Polish POWs
