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Of course I wasn't around back then. But if historical accounts and historical portrayals of both Hitler and Stalin are any indication.

Most of these guys had no choice but to follow orders of their supreme leader. And in the light of current portrayals of Hitler portrays him as a schizophrenic demented lunatic who would go off on unrelated rants, that would have nothing to do with the mission or topic at hand. And if you led on that you thought he was coming unhinged, he would have you hauled away and exposed of properly. If Hitler said kill a million Jews you better kill a million and two.

The Germans are the only ethnic group to have people bellow the top decision makers tried for atrocities. With African warlords, even today, the top Dictator is tried. The International community does not convict every single soldier who carried out their orders.

With all that in mind, I never got tracking down people in their late 70's and now 90's to hold them accountable for biggest lunatic the world has ever seen, actions from over 60 years ago.