Don’t worry, none of the people who enabled the Holocaust faced meaningful consequences for their actions, and vanishingly few of those who were active participants were condemned for anything. In the years following 1945 all collaboration with the Nazi regime was essentially pardoned for the sake of “social harmony” or whatever it was called in German. In France De Gaulle similarly said “all of France was Résistante” and commuted Pétain’s death sentence, essentially wiping clean the slate of Nazi collaborators.
In fact it’s vanishingly unlikely that you haven’t consumed, this week, several products made by companies that directly benefited from slave labor during WWII and that arguably wouldn’t exist today if they had been forced to face consequences for their crimes against humanity.
Guilt and shame are concepts only us peasants are subject to. Politicians and industrialists only deal - at most - in PR, and their response will be entirely dependent on what they calculate they can get away with.
Don’t worry, none of the people who enabled the Holocaust faced meaningful consequences for their actions, and vanishingly few of those who were active participants were condemned for anything. In the years following 1945 all collaboration with the Nazi regime was essentially pardoned for the sake of “social harmony” or whatever it was called in German. In France De Gaulle similarly said “all of France was Résistante” and commuted Pétain’s death sentence, essentially wiping clean the slate of Nazi collaborators.
In fact it’s vanishingly unlikely that you haven’t consumed, this week, several products made by companies that directly benefited from slave labor during WWII and that arguably wouldn’t exist today if they had been forced to face consequences for their crimes against humanity.
Guilt and shame are concepts only us peasants are subject to. Politicians and industrialists only deal - at most - in PR, and their response will be entirely dependent on what they calculate they can get away with.