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we can't hurt our enemies, we must meet in the middle in the marketplace of ideas

i dig the instant and brazen conflation of "SS Officers" with "german soldiers", Jim Wayne, Duke University alum. more like Dooky University.

in war time Germany, officers were like 3% of all military personnel; a 33-to-1 ratio of not-officers to officers. 50,000 SS officers would mean the SS was officer heavy compared to regular army, which is very on-brand for a highly-political and tightly managed military group, representing >6% of the total SS force. today's bloated US officer corps is around 19% for reference, and people write white papers about how it's either an organizational crisis or cool, actually.

anyway, SS as an organization had 800,000 individuals, while the ww2 german army had 13.6 million members. those 50,000 criminals would represent the hardened core of ideologically committed and experienced killers. no doubt they were crucial in western containment of socialism.

My mental gymnastics: nazis should die and stalin wisely knew this

Stalin feared opposition to being a dictator mental gymnastics: that shit ^

Churchill opposed it because he was totally cool with Germany doing N*zi shit up until it threatened Western Europe. He was an ardent anti-communist and had his generals draw up a plan to attack the USSR at the end of WW2 "to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and the British Empire".

Stalin was joking, but really, they had been invaded twice in a few decades, just lost 20M people, and engaged in all-out total war for multiple years. Even with 50K officers executed, it wouldn't come close to the scale of the USSR's losses. If Stalin was truly concerned, Zhukov would've been taking afternoon tea in London.

He's right that SS officers would go on to oppose the Soviets (after they were put in charge of NATO and West Germany)

If the SS oppose you, you're probably doing something right

I wonder why anti-communist leaders didn't want to kill the most credentialed anti-communist troops on the planet

I took this thing into Quora and it exploded

stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin

I kind of wonder if Quora should be disallowed cause it's just easy pickings

yeah its a cesspool so if people started posting Quora regularly it'd literally fill up your whole feed. there's single question threads that could lol. but apparently we're too well adjusted and self-loving to torture ourselves so, we love our beautiful hexbeariens don't we

Didn’t Stalin suggest this only jokingly?

Or, or, hear me out, Winston Churchill was a Nazi. He did kill 6 million bengalis after all

Britain's enemy's would use it to justify killing British soldier who are in their control.

Huh, well when you put it like that, maybe those imperialist foot soldiers should die

the only thing worse than being a nazi, is killing one that's being nice! 🤡

Duke University and graduated in 1967, producing such shitty arguments. That's ameriKKKan's top education right there.

Love too do vibes based historiography

So we're not just talking about soldiers conscripted to fight for Nazi Germany. We're not even talking about the small fraction that joined the SS. We're talking about people who joined the worst org of literal Nazi Germany, and then were so willing and good at that job that they got promoted to officer. We are basically talking about the worst of the worst of the worst.

I'm rarely for violent or deadly punishment where it's not immediate and necessary, but it's hard to question the validity and practicality of wanting them gone.

Quora is just new age yahoo answers but without any of the comedy

'Churchill opposed the idea of executions of SS officers because... rule of law' from the stupid quora chatbot answer

I kind of wonder if Quora should be disallowed cause it's just easy pickings

There's a whole podcast by two comrades dedicated to the stupidity of Quora.