Dachau SS guards shot

War is hell

 

I still believe that the matter should be handled in legal ways first. Killing everybody without questions is not the answer. If that was, we killed practically everyone in Serbia for 1992-1996. Or the Turks for the Armenian genocide. Who´s the first to trow the stone? End of my political view and won´t return there. I agree they deserved the result but the big question is are we better than them...

 

Totally agree Kai

 

Well Said. I feel like this is correct view point and it was good that we had the trials at nuremberg.. however a trial is to prove guilt or innocence and assess punishment. I don't feel like proving guilt was necessary for the SS guards at the camps.
If all of the SS were captured and stood trial I might feel differently about this scenario, but knowing that most got away scott-free (who was scott?) makes it hard feel anything but redemption and satisfaction at a story like this. Just my opinion.

 

I understand the need for the legal system....but I also look and see the situation in a ''realistic' way...sure, legally some shootings might be wrong....but I don't see it as much as if someone is better than someone else as much as the reality of the situation.....a lot of our laws now made by politicians sound and look like a great idea on paper, but when in a real situation, they are totally ridiculous....the humans -the GIs- saw and felt Dachau's horrors, so naturally, they vented, attacked, REacted to natural human emotion, etc...

 

There are two ways to look at it. One is the ideal, pie in the sky version where we believe situations, from afar, are manageable, and right and wrong is not a gray area. The other side believes that, in total war, at the end of this gruesome and arduous conflict, one in which you have witnessed horrors that no other regular person can fathom, one takes matters into their own hands. It's not black and white. I can't even begin to imagine the sheer anger and overwhelming emotion that one feels encountering a scene like this. Whichever the stance is...I cannot judge.

 

Got what they deserved, good riddance.