Poll: Would you harbor a nazi?

[duncants]

I personally believe what the Russians and Japanese did in the war and after was much worse then what the Nazis did,the Russian troops raped and killed a shit-ton of post war civilians and the Japanese committed so many war crimes it'd make the worst video game enemies blush.

And the fact that other war criminals exist doesn't absolve this guy.

No I suppose not, but you know what does absolve him? The fact that 99.5% of the people on this forum would commit atrocities in order to survive. It's human nature, everything we do is to stay alive and reproduce. (well stuff like suicide isn't but you get the point)

You should not be so quick to judge people if you have not been in a similar situation... (if you have been in such a situation, and still did the 'right' thing, please ignore the above and consider yourself officially awesome

 

[Alleged_Alec]

I disagree with some of the responses I've read that he should have a fair trial. Not because he should have one, I'd agree with that. I disagree with the notion he's going to get one. And even if he does, and he does get away without being punished (which he should, if he really were repentant and did good and all that), it'd be impossible to integrate back into society, because people know he's an ex-nazi, and therefore an evil bastard who eats children and drinks pandatears.

 

[Iwana Humpalot]

My decision would depend on the military rank of the nazi. If he was just a regular soldier who had joined the army and would have been killed for standing up against his officers, i would personally just tell him that it wasn't your fault and maybe hug him, So no i wouldn't turn him in. But if he would have been a high-ranked officer i would turn him in, and maybe kick him a little bit.

 

[Rutkowski]

If he truely was repenant he would've turned himself in years ago. He dug himself into a hole and it's time to sit in it.

And I say that as a person of German heritage(my father was born in Essen) who had relatives that fought for several different armies of the war, including the German.

 

[Optional Opinion]

One exception. If the words or phrase "I was just following orders." come out of their mouth, I'm turning them in. To quote The 9th Doctor: "And with that sentence, you just lost the right to even talk to me."

I'm not sure if this has been brought up or not but if you feel like that you should read up on Zimbardo's prison experiment and also Milgram's famous electrocution experiment. I think you'll find them interesting.

"I was just following orders" is an adequate excuse.

 

[standokan]

You have to face responsibility for the crap you've done so, sell 'm out and lock 'm up.

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

Considering my beliefs on repentance as well as my family history, I have no choice but to hide him.

 

[Rottweiler]

"Being a German soldier during WW2 kind of defaulted to being a Nazi...

Every soldier swore allegiance to the party and to Hitler and any dissidence was dealt with harshly.

You can argue that swearing allegiance as a mandatory condition doesn't reflect the individual, but when all is said and done, what is the difference between a man who supports an ideology and a man who doesn't oppose it?"

The National Socialist Party was just that- a political party. It had a membership and it had a great deal of power- if you were ambitious you joined it because you got more influence and were promoted faster. However, it was also a choice. Many Germans during WWII were *not* members, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel being a major example.

In short, while the Nazi Party *ran* Germany, not all Germans were members. Much like being a member of the Communist Party in Soviet Russia.

 

[The Heik]

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Crimes of obedience are still crimes. Sure he didn't want to commit genocide, but he still did. If he really didn't want to do it, he could have run like so many other people escaping the Nazis. He could even have fought, and tried to save as many as he could. But no, he put his own safety over those of so many other people. He's nothing but a coward. And he'd have to pay the price.

I would turn him in.

 

[Drejer43]

You forgot to add an option "I don't know"
The world isn't black and white, but laws needs to be otherwise it would be to hard to judge people

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

I would neither harbor, nor deliver.
Call me cold, but i'd leave the guy to his own decisions.

Besides, i for one can't say i want to pound someone's face in because they commited a crime. Think about the nazis for a while and try recalling the stories of how most of them were brought up. And then give a thought to those who did what they did to protect themselves and their own families.

What the people who started bringing up nazis did was wrong, but you can't really just put a label on every nazi that says "EVIL! Burn this motherf***er!". Believe it or not people, some nazis were actually humans too.

 

[Zorg Machine]

In Sweden, no. he will sit in prison for a maximum of 10 years (btw, our prisons are rehabilitation chambers, they get an xbox) and then he will be out and free.

 

[iseko]

Had a discussion about this too. The problem is that the nazi working in the camp could be a totally different man from your neighbour. Physicly they are the same. But mentally he could have changed.

In our scenario the guy was first a murderer. Ten years later he working in shelters, food hand-outs, ... Stuff like that. Hard to say what should be done I suppose.

 

[PinkiePyro]

slam the door in his face

he may of helped kill my ancestors

 

[GoodEyeSniper]

Um... No. Because that would be AIDING AND ABETTING. I'm not going to harbour a fugitive because he's sorry. Especially since I have no idea why he's being arrested. He could be a freakin' pedophile for all I know. So f#ck him and the horse he rode in on.

 

[Kiwilove]

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You want to know what I would do?

Absolute fucking nothing.

Even if he wasn't sorry for what he did...I refuse to turn in this man. Hollywood, Israel, and the Jewish people have villianized these people just for the sole sake that their ancestors were killed and it makes me sick.

Has the man apologized to God? Has he confessed his sins to Him alone? Has he said "God, Jesus...forgive me?". Even then, what right are you to judge in the midst of warfare?

Guess what world? The instance he does that...all the tears have been WIPED away...

We allow black people leniency on a sociological level towards crimes in the United States because of "historical discrimination and inequality", we allow the Mexicans to walk onto land which they take resources from because they are "starving" and "can't maintain anything in their own land", we make up excuses left and right for everyone to lay claim that Israel has a right to Palestinian land for a racial ideology that is insultingly masqueraded as a religion...but nooooo...the German people have absolutely no right whatsoever to ever lay the claim that they had their land usurped by foreign powers and that their country is in actuality BLAMELESS for what happened.

The man is innocent until death in my eyes.

It's only because we've been force-fed that image so many times in our lives, via movies, via war films, via Hollywood...that we actually believe this shit that we're often told. Was it bad? Yes. But it's been overstated as to how "horrible" it really was. I see their deaths as no different than the deaths of soldiers.

Signed.
A man with German ancestry and other "untermenscht" mixings.

I can't believe I have to say this: Genocide is Always Wrong.
and since when was having a 7/1 black to white prison population leniency?

 

[THE_NAMSU]

I don't know to be honest.
Every country which has large industrial companies like Nike and Gap have done the exact same thing as Hitler (to the poor asian people), they take advantage of corrupt or weak laws in countries and turn the local people into slaves to serve the west's consumeristic ways.

Everybody is ignorant.
Back to the Hitler thing; probs not cuz he wouldn't like my Asian curry filled household.
BTW does anybody even realise there's somebody called Stalin (worse than Hitler) C:?

 

[Soods]

If the police come asking for him, I'll turn him in. Not because he is a nazi, but because I don't wanna get in trouble with the law.

 

[Someone Depressing]

No. It's not WWII. It's 2011. Who seriously Cares if he worked with Hitler? That was almost 90 years ago.

Who cares? I certainly don't!

 

[Madara XIII]

Never would I harbor him.

Sorry, but I'm not really one for mercy in my situation. I wouldn't have him tortured or I wouldn't kill him, but knowing this information I honestly think it'd be best to remove him from society.

Judge me all you want, but there are some actions I cannot condone nor let happen without doing something to stand against it.


Soooooo NO!!!