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He should have fled and explained how dire the situation was.
At least there was one.... lol. He was complicit in the act even if he tried to keep them alive. He should have fled and explained how dire the situation was. Watching a crime occur in front of you and not reporting it, is generally still a crime in and of itself. My buddy shoots a guy in front of me and I help clean the wound and remove the bullet, yet don't report a crime, it's a crime. Tread lightly glorifying any Nazi bud. Not a good look.
I’d imagine if he were caught assisting the prisoners he would have been killed, but more people would have died.
Bravery is bravery.
Is that what you would tell the prisoners who testified on his behalf?
I get that, but there's no telling how many less could have died if he did something beyond "special research" or whatever to save Jews.
Not disputing that. Not saying he wasn't "helpful" to Jews in concentration camps. He could have been more helpful after knowingly witnessing outright torture and murder. That's really indisputable. Just because you help 1% of people and watch the other 99% die a miserable death doesn't make it good or right is my point.
If told I must wear a mask to buy food, I put on the fucking mask.
You could be thrown in a concentration camp for having the wrong book on your shelf in Nazi Germany. I'm not sure what this guy could have done different and still survived.
I hear you, but a mask is different, albeit getting on the slippery slope of control. Not saying one should do this currently, but I'd say fuck it and start shooting all the officers at the camp. Fuck it. I'd get taken out for sure
You are full of shit. This is what you'd HOPE you'd do, not what you'd ACTUALLY do. Most people are filled with such delusions because it makes them more comfortable.
Your assumptions are false. If I'm personally watching humans be tortured and murdered, I do something. Even if it risks my own life. It's not false bravado. I've put myself in risky situations over less than another human being gassed.
www.youtube.com/embed/7eW19WTQtcQ
Check out the freaky sign language girl. S(He) really puts emotion into her signing.
We will see. Should we ever have political dissident camps, I'm certain to go to one, and will be one of the first to die in one.
The level of abject cowardice and frankly self interested evil we’ve seen this year from our medical professionals should have destroyed any credibility they once had. But thanks to the greater population being sheeple and easily swayed by government media propaganda, patients are still checking themselves in at ERs with minor Covid symptoms to die from abject and evil medical malpractice.
Paweł Żuk
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Updated August 6, 2019
Lived in Gdańsk, Poland
During the Holocaust, is there evidence of even a single SS soldier who stopped and said: "This is immoral, I can't do this"?
Yes.
In 1947, in Poland, communist authorities began a series of trials of people accused of participating in mass murder at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The second of these trials, confusingly called “The First Auschwitz Trial” (Pierwszy Proces Oświęcimski), involved 40 defendants - most of them highly placed officers and administrators in the camp.
Out of the forty defendants, twenty-three were sentenced to death by hanging, six to life imprisonment, seven to 15 years imprisonment, and three to 10, 5 and 3 years imprisonment respectively.
One was acquitted of all charges.
This guy: Hans Wilhelm Münch, seen in the picture wearing the uniform that might as well be synonymous with “war criminal”.
As far as the evidence suggests, Dr. Münch was a card-carrying member of the Nazi party, having joined up out of either genuine belief in their ideals, or self-serving reasons to advance his own career as a doctor and bacteriologist.
In 1943, he was recruited by the SS and sent to assist with medical experiments in Auschwitz. But something strange happened there: the hardcore Nazi/selfish bastard refused to enable the crimes of his superior, Josef Mengele, and - at great personal risk - began assisting the camp’s inmates.
First, he outright refused to participate in the infamous “selections” at the railway platform, which determined who’d be put to work, who’d be experimented upon, and who would be put to death immediately.
Second, he kept Mengele’s victims alive by coming up with elaborate fake experiments, that in reality were just cover for providing people with actual medical treatment, and keeping them from being killed as no longer useful.
And, finally, when leaving the camp ahead of the advancing Red Army, he gave his personal revolver to a prisoner.
And so, in December 1947, while people with every right to hate Nazis described the crimes of 39 defendants in detail, they surprised all the judges and prosecutors by standing up for an SS man and member of the Nazi party who worked for one of history’s greatest monsters.
Nobody really expected that, but the testimonies were so earnest, consistent and came from so many inmates, that even communist prosecutors had to concede their charges were unsubstantiated, and thus Hans Münch was permitted to leave, return to Germany and live out the rest of his life practicing medicine.
So, to sum it up: Yeah. There was a single SS soldier whose turn from evil was so complete that he faced communist justice and lived to tell the tale.
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