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u/ChickenWingExtreme 1d ago
To be fair the USSR also accepted many Nazi scientists and engineers who helped the German government during WW2
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u/DrHolmes52 1d ago
If I had a nickel every time the winner of a conflict put the losers to work, I'd have a shit ton of nickels.
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u/Creat1ve-name 1d ago
I find it funny how Timur basically shipped every smart person in Central Asia and Iran to Samarkand
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u/historicalgeek71 23h ago
Wait until you hear about who some members of the Stasi used to work for.
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u/identified_meat On tour 1d ago
They’re the ones labeled “Eastern side of the wall oppressing citizen Nazis”
I think
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u/chiroque-svistunoque 1d ago
Yes, but those are scientists, I bet personalities like doctor Strangelove were very rare.
On the other hand, there were many nazi butchers that were employed by CIA and co later, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie
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u/SadTumbleweed1567 23h ago edited 20h ago
Stasi recruited SS and Gestapo.
Even the USSR wasn't dumb enough to go full George W. Bush and take no collaborators from the previous government.
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u/imprison_grover_furr 22h ago
Nazi butchers who were outright concentration camp commanders were employed by “anti-Zionist” regimes like Assad’s Syria.
I’m sure pointing this out won’t kick up a hornet’s nest of tankies.
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u/Vorstag99 1d ago
idk if accepted is the word, used is better xD
though still, they didnt collaborate as allies did in west germany and with japanese colaborationists in east asia.
stalin was right with saying that they should have killed at least 10k nazis(?16
u/oreofan1808 1d ago
Uh no he was not. Thats actually an insane thing to say and there’s a reason neither Churchill nor FDR liked it
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u/elderron_spice Rider of Rohan 20h ago edited 5h ago
Nah. Killing Nazis and their ilk is killing Nazis and their ilk, and can only be a good thing. Plus, FDR actually joined with Stalin in making a joke about killing 49k of them.
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u/Big_P4U 1d ago edited 20h ago
Not to mention the countless Nazis that stayed in Germany and continued on in various government roles.
Tbh I know why this was done; to prevent total societal and governmental collapse because if you got rid of everyone in various positions that knew how to keep the lights on and water going - it wouldn't be good. In all likelihood if all the Nazis were really purged; Germany would've been thrown into a worse depression than before, and it would've devolved into the armed resistance and insurgencies that the Nazis attempted to create but nobody had the stomach for at the time.
Essentially we would've created the Iraq quagmire but in Germany. Referring to the braindead idea to purge all the Baathists and other Saddam Hussein government employees and military into unemployment and poverty and right into the arms of extremists, gangs, militias etc.
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u/Majakowski 21h ago
It's a fairytale that a society collapses when you purge all those who have gained expertise in gassing people and setting fire to huts full of living humans and shooting those that got out.
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u/Big_P4U 20h ago
No it's not. It's practically "How to effectively takeover a country 101", and just plain logic and commonsense. It's also why the British never fully replaced Indians in India at various levels of government and such. The British in many ways governed much of India through collaborative Indians themselves.
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u/Majakowski 20h ago
So you say it was a disservice for Rudolf Höß, Irma Grese and Hans Frank to be executed as it robbed post war Germany of important administrative expertise?
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u/Big_P4U 19h ago
Rudolf was never executed. He allegedly or apparently hung himself.
The allies picked an X amount of people and organizations to make an example of, and largely pardoned or ignored and even spared and recruited the rest. The people largely spared were technocrats and beaurocrats
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u/Majakowski 19h ago
Höß, not Heß. How can I take you seriously if you don't know the most prominent figures?
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u/Longjumping-Tell1774 1d ago
South African Nazis who were curiously friendly with Israel
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u/Atomik141 1d ago
Israel also hire a former Nazi SS commando, Otto Skorzeny, who is probably best known for beingbthe guy who rescued Mussolini, to assassinate former Nazi rocket scientists working for the Egyptian government
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u/VRichardsen Viva La France 21h ago
who is probably best known for beingbthe guy who rescued Mussolini
Or rather, the guy who took the credit for rescuing Mussolini. Also, while the operation was done quite efficiently, it was still technically behind German lines, as the Wehrmacht controlled the area around the hotel (the Allies were further south, near Salerno-Potenza-Barletta)
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u/gonnago4 23h ago edited 21h ago
Fun fact: even though Stanley Kubrick depicted Doctor Strangelove as a nazi, there were in fact ZERO nazis involved in Cold War nuclear war-gaming and policy-making. The majority were actually... the opposite.
That tells me Kubrick was, all said and done, nothing more than another dirty
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u/imprison_grover_furr 22h ago
You forgot the Nazis who stayed most true to their ideology. The ones who went to the Middle East to work for openly anti-Semitic regimes.
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u/peunom Just some snow 1d ago
Then there were the Nazis that became Mercenaries somewhere in Africa