Rudolf Hess was the last living member of Hitler's inner circle finally dying in prison in 1983. This of course being a long sentence of 42+ years in which he spent half his life behind bars. However what was his crime? I have skimmed through multiple sites and I cannot find any reasonable crime he committed that is worthy of a life in prison sentence. He was captured in 1941 before any major acts of genocide took place by the Nazis. For what reason was he locked up so long?
Furthermore isn't the circumstances of his death suspicious? Spending 42 years locked up possibly about to be released and he kills himself?
The fact that they demolished the prison is strange.
Bentley Green
His crime was he was a G*rm.
Blake Gutierrez
>For what reason was he locked up so long? His side lost the war. It didn't matter if he committed a crime or not, he was going to die in prison regardless.
Grayson Parker
I've always loved learning about World War Two but the more I came to know the less I believed the whole "we were the good guys they were the evil guys" motive
Leo Hall
The Nuremberg answer is that he helped Hitler in perpetuating the Antisemitism in Nazi Germany, and therefor was indirectly responsible for the Holocaust. The real answer is that he happened to not be on the side of the victors, and the Soviets held a personal grudge against all of the defendants in the Nuremberg Trials.
Cameron Garcia
>suicide at age 93
What did he mean by that?
Jace Lewis
While, yes, like all things, the second world war had its grays, the Nazi party, and Hitler, and their insane and inhumane ideals are, from nearly every angle, a completely wrong thing to do.
Dylan Brooks
Germany got rid of the gold standard therefore bad guys
Colton Thompson
He was imprisoned because the Soviets alleged that he had foreknowledge of operation Barbarossa, and was trying to sue for peace between Britain and Germany (where he was arrested) so as to make the subjugation of the Soviet union easier. IIRC they kept him in prison because when questioned he either denied it or feigned memory loss.
Logan Perry
Sorry, I meant to say that he spent more than half his life behind bars.
Cameron Kelly
under the pretext that they didn't want it to become a neo-nazi shrine...
i guess it did serve out its function
Adrian Ramirez
not him but imo the grayness comes from the Allies and USSR doing similarly genocidal and awful shit like starving bangladeshis, ukrainians etc. Ofc the holocaust was inexcusable and awful but the war wasnt over the holocaust and the winners only cared about it when it made them look heroic and liberatory in retrospect.
t. commie who hates fascists
Oliver Butler
>Actually believing this, living in the current year with all statistical knowledge at your fingertips. user, I
Brandon Jackson
How was starting a war he couldn't win the right thing to do?
Logan Jenkins
>because of their 'insane' and 'inhumane' ideals. That is my problem with anons statement. They did what they thought was right for their people and the state of the world. You know, that thing good leaders risk going to war for.
Tyler Gutierrez
>the Nazi party, and Hitler, and their insane and inhumane ideals are, from nearly every angle, a completely wrong thing to do.
The nazis didnt do anything that humans havent done for thousands of years, they just did it on a larger scale. If they had shipped the jews out of Europe instead of killing them then they wouldnt have been worse than any other superpower today or in the past.
Landon Kelly
I agree, but I still think America was more morally just than the Axis powers. The post war trials were a sham, and a disgrace to our country, but the intentions of both sides were significant enough to determine a good and bad. >Let's control nearly all of Europe and wipe out people we don't like using an Authoritarian regime >Let's not let them do that shit and stop ourselves from getting fucking bombed by them and their allies
Ethan Morris
Although, I WILL say the more I study the Pacific, and Japanese history leading up to that theater, it becomes much more morally grey, as much as that stance would disappoint my late grandfather.
American treatment of the Japanese during the Boxer Rebellion was deplorable, and the Japanese annexations of Korea and Thailand objectively bettered the countries and the lives of the people in them. The Japanese Empire was good for nearly every Asian country except China.
Henry Turner
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Liam Perry
Nice, I didn't expect a 12 yo to be any less naive.
Samuel Ross
Suicide rate amongst the elderly is pretty high actually
Brody Davis
Because Hitler could have won Euro War 1939, not World War II: Global Gangbang Edition Just like Japan could have settled for taking over Asia, BTFO the Brits and French, and stopping there.
Samuel Nguyen
He was sentenced for trespassing
Kevin Rodriguez
>If they had shipped the jews out of Europe instead of killing them then they wouldnt have been worse than any other superpower today or in the past. But, user, that's exactly what Hitler was doing before war broke out and it became impossible to send them away anymore. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement Hitler was a zionist, because he believed in national socialism as a right of all people, not just the Germans.
