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**Lidawka** · 07-15-2008, 01:05 AM

Originally posted by Proteus_MST

Hm, considering the things he did it is strange that he was first caught, then released without being tried and afterwards was able to live 14 years in freedom without being prosecuted. Not so strange. There were a lot of records to go through, some of the records were incomplete (Nazis started burning records to hide stuff), and the US was holding tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Nazis after the war. A few years after the war ended the orders came down to either charge or release these men and some guys who were guilty got let go simply because not enough manpower had been dedicated to reviewing the hordes of Nazi files. Later on they figured out so and so was a war criminal and it was to late.

07-15-2008, 01:05 AM	#16
Lidawka Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 537 Senior Member	Originally posted by Proteus_MST Hm, considering the things he did it is strange that he was first caught, then released without being tried and afterwards was able to live 14 years in freedom without being prosecuted. Not so strange. There were a lot of records to go through, some of the records were incomplete (Nazis started burning records to hide stuff), and the US was holding tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Nazis after the war. A few years after the war ended the orders came down to either charge or release these men and some guys who were guilty got let go simply because not enough manpower had been dedicated to reviewing the hordes of Nazi files. Later on they figured out so and so was a war criminal and it was to late.
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