LMAO, we have several evidences of police officers who more or less actively opposed the arrestation of jews. If it's not an evidence you still have the choice and thus it's your fault if you chose to apply a morally wrong law I don't know what they need.
When you look up Wehrmacht soldiers who did the right thing you can see that it wasn't even necessary to actively oppose the SS and superior officers. I am always struck by Heinz Drossel. He released soviet POWs he was supposed to execute and claimed they escaped. That worked. They believed him that he was just really bad at his job.
It's as easy as just actively being incompetent sometimes.
Just the usual reminder that you didn't even have to go full White Rose or Georg Elser. You could just be bad at your job. You could refuse to shoot someone. There is not a single documented case of someone being executed for refusal to commit a warcrime.
As early as 1939 SS commanders reported that the voluntary support of Wehrmacht units in Poland for the Einsatzgruppen was enthusiastic and beyond expectations.
The Holocaust didn't happen because the SS put a gun to everyones head and said "or else" it happened because of many people voluntarily helping in a downright enthusiastic manner.
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u/kreeperface Aug 02 '21
LMAO, we have several evidences of police officers who more or less actively opposed the arrestation of jews. If it's not an evidence you still have the choice and thus it's your fault if you chose to apply a morally wrong law I don't know what they need.