Erm, Germany has paid for the actions of the nazis, and many of those on top were trialed and jailed. Germany has paid lots of reparations as well, and monuments were erected. Nazi guilt is also very much present in the German culture and history. Can’t wait to see the same happening with Israel… I won’t hold my breath.
West Germany did not pay “lots” of reparations, far from it. It was pumped with money through the Marshall Plan, and Volkswagen & Hugo Boss are still around.
Very few West German Nazis went to trial or were jailed. Many were placed in prominent positions in the new government and the governments of other NATO countries and in NATO itself.
The reason things played out that way is pretty straightforward: fascism is compatible with capitalism, and communism is incompatible with both. The Western capitalist states were more motivated to destroy communism than fascism, and they were happy to use fascism as a weapon against communism.
Hamas are the Nazis in this analogy. It’s just that the Poland they decided to invade turns out to be too powerful for them to handle
I doubt Palestine would be able to pay any significant level of reparations, but I would like to see justice done to any participant in Hamas’s war crimes.
Not really. Hamas is explicitly genocidal, the only reason they haven’t done to Jews what the Nazis did is that they don’t have the competence and power to do so
Erm, Germany has paid for the actions of the nazis, and many of those on top were trialed and jailed. Germany has paid lots of reparations as well, and monuments were erected. Nazi guilt is also very much present in the German culture and history. Can’t wait to see the same happening with Israel… I won’t hold my breath.
West Germany did not pay “lots” of reparations, far from it. It was pumped with money through the Marshall Plan, and Volkswagen & Hugo Boss are still around.
Very few West German Nazis went to trial or were jailed. Many were placed in prominent positions in the new government and the governments of other NATO countries and in NATO itself.
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The reason things played out that way is pretty straightforward: fascism is compatible with capitalism, and communism is incompatible with both. The Western capitalist states were more motivated to destroy communism than fascism, and they were happy to use fascism as a weapon against communism.
Hamas are the Nazis in this analogy. It’s just that the Poland they decided to invade turns out to be too powerful for them to handle
I doubt Palestine would be able to pay any significant level of reparations, but I would like to see justice done to any participant in Hamas’s war crimes.
Incorrect
Or maybe Hamas are the Jews, but turns out the Jews in this analogy has big modern guns.
Or many comparing the two to nazis is just a bad comparison?
Not really. Hamas is explicitly genocidal, the only reason they haven’t done to Jews what the Nazis did is that they don’t have the competence and power to do so