Most Nazis - along with their collaborators - never payed for their crimes. Not at all.
- There was no "clean Wehrmacht" (German Army). The "good Germans" myth is for the most part, just that - a myth.
- Erwin Rommel was a fucking Nazi war criminal who was deeply loyal to Hitler (and even though he was executed based on allegations, there's no actual evidence that he was at all involved in the assassination attempt on Hitler in 1944).
- Hitler was massively popular among Germans for most of his time as Fuhrer.
- Austria was not a "victim" of the Nazis.
- The Axis powers were not just Germany, Italy, and Japan, and Germany was not the only country whose leaders and citizens were involved in carrying out or at least facilitating the Holocaust.
- There were plenty of people in other countries besides Germany and Austria (including this country) who admired Hitler and "what he was doing."
- The German civilian population knew that, at the VERY least, that their (Nazi) government was doing horrific thingsto the Jews in Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe during WWII.
- Even well before WWII ended, the Allied leadership absolutely knew that unspeakable crimes were being committed by the Nazis against Jews in Polish camps during the War - and they knew what the purpose of those camps were - but they did nothing (or worse, turned away most Jewish refugees from Europe).
- Card-carrying, ideologically committed Nazi scientists were indeed, recruited in large numbers by the US after WWII for the purposes of fighting the Cold War.
- Many Nazi government officials - including many senior officials - played a critical role in establishing the state/government of West Germany.
- And finally, Nazis, and people like them, are making a comeback these days, and "bigly." And I'm not just talking about Europe here. Obviously.
Those who cannot remember the past (or worse, remember the past in the wrong ways and draw the wrong lessons from it) are...I don't think I need elaborate here.
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