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He absolutely would have been executed had he not offed himself. He was guilty as gently caress. I'm against the death penalty in general, but if you accept that that's the correct punishment for the Nazis, then yeah, he should have been killed.
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Panzeh posted:To take a slightly different tack, do any of you think any of the acquittals or light sentences were justified? Riefenstahl was justified, for one.
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Randarkman posted:As for Goebbles. Wasn't he an important figure in the left-wing (emphasizing the socialist) of the party and initially an opponent of Hitler? Him coming around to supporting Hitler was of pretty great importance in unifying and rallying the party around Hitler. Yeah, in the early days (20s) there was a north/south split, with the north essentially being authoritarian socialists and the south being law-and-order authoritarians. This led to pretty serious infighting, and at least once an attempted coup that was supposed to relieve the Munich faction (Hitler) of their power. Goebbels was on the side of the coup, until last minute the main northern agitator got cold feet and Goebbels immediately stabbed him in the back to ingratiate himself with Hitler. Goebbels for instance was thoroughly opposed to the landed aristocracy and wanted to forcibly remove them and take their poo poo, but Hitler's southern Nazis were all about upholding the law, so that never happened. Goebbels had communist sympathies until the end, but was always too much of a bootlicker to do anything about them. He wanted a leader he could follow. He wasn't above trying to subtly influence that leader towards the left but only if that wouldn't lead to an argument that potentially could have undermined Goebbel's position within the party. Hitler was keenly aware of how useful Goebbels could be as a propagandist and flattered and complimented him constantly to keep him happily at heel.
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