It’s not nuts. As secretary, she would likely have seen documents indicating that Jews were being killed in the camp. She’s an accessory to atrocities and needs to pay.
“It’s not nuts. As secretary, she would likely have seen documents indicating that Jews were being killed in the camp. She’s an accessory to atrocities and needs to pay.”
No more an accessory than the camp commandant’s cook.
So she saw documents. What was she supposed to do, call a cop? What should she have done in that position exactly??
“As secretary, she would likely have seen documents indicating that Jews were being killed in the camp. She’s an accessory to atrocities and needs to pay.”
I must disagree. The standard you imply suggests anyone with knowledge of a Jew being murdered should pay. As someone else on this thread mentioned, Hiter’s personal secretary was never charged, she certainly knew what was going on.
Those with knowledge of mass murder that never had any level of physical participation in it could be in the thousands that are still alive. You expect the child of a concentration camp that had knowledge of dad’s activities to be rounded up and tried? Or take the lady in question, just what was she supposed to do as a kid secretary, shoot her boss, turn him in to the Gestapo?
If she had spoken out against it she would have joined the jews in the concentration camp
Pay for what? What other alternative did she have?
Maybe we should conduct the same decades long investigation into war crimes that may have been committed in Vietnam by US soldiers..........
Would you be OK with that? You can start with Lt. Calley for your first condemnation of war crimes..........Sheesh!
“It’s not nuts. As secretary, she would likely have seen documents indicating that Jews were being killed in the camp. She’s an accessory to atrocities and needs to pay.”
And what, exactly, could she have done about the situation?
Called the SS?
Oops, the SS was running the camps.
Called the Gestapo?
The Gestapo would have thrown HER into the camp. After torturing her of course.
Perhaps the local Burgermeister?
He would have turned her into the Gestapo for spreading false propaganda.
Also consider that she would have been indoctrinated in the schools and the Bund Deutscher Mädel, League Of German Girls, to follow orders and directions without questioning them. That Jews and others were sub-human and were the enemies of Germany.
Quite frankly, she DIDN’T KNOW any different.
Who was she suppose to tell, Hitler?
Yes, she may have seen documents but what could she have done? At that time and place, being a young woman?