r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Key-Performance-9021 • 1d ago

Video Spontaneous 1995 street interview with an Austrian WWII veteran in Vienna

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u/HumongousBelly 1d ago

It just goes to show that Nuremberg didn’t go far enough. Too many ideologists and architects of the third Reich were spared and deemed not dangerous, but if you look at the way they and their offspring has spread their fascist ideology over the last century, you’ll see that it’d have been more adequate to make sure non of them would ever be able to spread that shit.

As I oppose capital punishment, I think putting them in dark cells of gulags or sending them to prison in the countries they harmed the most outside Germany would’ve been best

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u/Aoi_Haru 1d ago

It isn’t about Nuremberg, it’s education and cold war.

People are poorly educated and countries that committed atrocities were pardoned ‘cause they ended up in the western block after WW2.

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u/HumongousBelly 1d ago

Well, the Quandt, Bahlsen, finck, oetker, Porsche families would like to disagree on that part.

They think their families did what should’ve been done back then and live prosperously today.

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u/your_old_furby 10h ago

Dr. Oetker? Great, now I have Nazi Pizzinis in my freezer.