(January 19, 2016 at 8:59 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote:(January 19, 2016 at 5:26 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: What you said is totally untrue historically. People didn't randomly end up working in the death camps, they wanted to be there. Most were members of the SS who joined the SS out of their own free will.
OK, I don't want to pretend to know more than I do, but something isn't adding up for your characterization of of those whose job title was "medical orderly". In our culture, this is not what ambitious people do, and the SS was Germany's most elite military organization during WWII. Therefore, I'm surprised if they could get any SS soldiers to empty bedpans, when they could get the local population, which was no less hostile toward Jewish people than they are today. But if you say the SS did even that low detail, I know you are qualified with your degree.
No, war is not static, it is fluid and I am quite sure in every American war we have been in, there would have been times where officers did grunt work of a private, even if only for a few hours or a day. It really does have to be a case by case issue, and there were even German civilians and soldiers who knew what was going on but didn't like it. Oscar Shindler acted like a Nazi supporter to save lives. There was even in Japan this guy, who risked his neck to forge documents so Jews could flee Lithuania.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_Sugihara
I only see this case as pointless because the person accused does not have the medical capacity to understand the charges. It would be like convicting a rock. It may be a political tactic, not a good reason.
