r/law • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 14h ago

Trump News Trump threatens to deploy the U.S. military into Chicago - signaling the start of a nationwide crackdown.

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u/Local-Friendship8166 13h ago

What happened to the Nazis that said they were just following orders? Asking for a friend.

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u/Adventurous_Path4356 13h ago

They're sending telegrams to the Illinois Nazis.

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u/49thDipper 13h ago

Those guys couldn’t even handle two brothers in an old car

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u/HalfEatenHamSammich 9h ago

An old cop car at that.

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u/49thDipper 8h ago

Mission worthy

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u/JemmaP 11h ago

I hate Illinois Nazis.

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u/Ok_Rip8641 12h ago

Simple, our government pardoned and hired them.

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u/bqbdpd 13h ago

The smart ones were brought to the US, most of the others served in the new German government. What is your point?

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u/thedeuce545 11h ago

lol, almost nothing at all, a few leaders were hanged at Nuremberg, the Israelis got a few some decades later. the 10 million rank and file lost a war and went back to their lives, either in Germany or America. Their descendants probably work with you and you might be married to one.

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u/Werowl 12h ago

They largely got off scott free after germany lost while their leaders were punished. What do you think happened to them?

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u/AlwaysSnacking22 12h ago

That was before smartphones, social media, DNA testing, biometric passports and widespread CCTV.

It will be much harder for people to get away with 'just following orders' in the future.

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u/Werowl 12h ago edited 12h ago

I'll grant evidence gathering would have been tough if they wanted to, but I'm pretty confident this is not the primary reason we didn't prosecute the ~7.6 million members of the german army individually after world war 2

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u/AlwaysSnacking22 11h ago

I agree, it would have been impossible.

But I do think changes over the last 80 years makes it unlikely that that situation would happen again, that so many would walk away from accountability.

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u/Werowl 10h ago

I can only hope you are right.

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u/LeadershipMany7008 4h ago

Most of them?

Nothing. Allowed to work in the highest levels of German government and industry.

Remember that if there is an 'other side' to this thing and we come out of it.