• deadlyduplicate@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So judgements provided by the judicial process is immaterial and instead we should care about the ravings of politicians and pundits 80 years after the fact?

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Just as there are such things as political prisoners, there are such things as political pardons. Judicial my ass; it was political.

      And just as before, whatever the politicians & pundits are raving is neither here nor there. The guy voluntarily joined the Waffen-SS Galicia Division.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah he volunteered to to be solider, so what? Being a solider is not the same thing as being a war criminal and the burden of proof still applies. War is messy and it is entirely possible that this division committed atrocities that haven’t been proven but the mere possibility is not sufficient reason to label him a war criminal. You are de-meaning the term by doing so.

        Either you have specific evidence to support your charge or realize you are participating in sensationalism.

        • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          He didn’t volunteer to join the regular army and be a regular soldier, he volunteered to be a Waffen-SS paramilitary Nazi soldier, which is quite another thing.