[oldvirginian]

Exactly!
If we had followed the Russians lead there wouldn’t be any NAZIs left to prosecute.
Prosecutors for the western allies only went after the very top officials to “send a message”.
Then the condemned were given a broken neck by the hangman.

The Russians executed thousands.
They hung them by putting them on a truck, placing the noose on and slowly pulling away. The condemned swung until they suffocated. A fitting end to monsters in human form.

[robowombat]

Actually a lot of former Nazis found comfortable niches in the DDR. Not guys at the top other than a few Gestapo types but lots like this fellow who were considered good candidates to execute Stalin's orders as they had shown such diligence in serving the Fuhrer.

[TheDandyMan]

Thousands? Well over a million of the German solders were captured by the Communists and never seen again.

Damn the Soviets and their methods. They presided over a slaughter much, much larger than the Holocaust and a system of camps every bit as horrific as the concentration camps. If the war against Nazism was a great crusade, as indeed it was, the only logical next step would have been to follow Patton’s advice and destroy the even greater monster.

Instead the Soviets were left to soil the world. They said they would destroy the United States from within, and look at our country...They did.