:'(

this just reminded me what kind this world used to be :(

not that everything is good now, but definitely better than it used to be 70 years ago, thanks god people's minds are slowly changing to the better

This post is just ridiculous. Maybe you should start to become familiar with what actually happened and start to understand historical patterns. I am about to become a teacher for German history, that's why I can't stand what you were writing, because it's just not the truth. After WW1 and especially after the Treaty of Versaille, Germany (actually the Weimar Republic) was in extremely bad shape. People lived in total misery, there was a high unemployement rate. Then this charismatic guy called Hitler came and promised to make things better. And people believed him and actually they weren't the only ones. The European governments and also the US government ... he fooled them all. Because the thing was: At first, he made things better for the Germans. After his early achievments, they all were blind to his real intentions though he has already made them clear in his book (Mein Kampf) in 1925 (eight years prior to his election). But they didn't wanna see that, they didn't want to have another war (Conduct of Appeasement).

What I basically wanna say is: The Germans were definitely not having "the time of their lives". They were not looking for everyone to get killed, they were looking for them to get their miserable lifes better. In addition to that, resistance during the time after the election was punishable by death. Yes, the German people lived in fear. The Nazi regime are the ones who were responsible for the massacres, not the German people. They elected Hitler six years before WW2 started, not thinking about war but about making their lifes better.

It doesn't matter if he dies tomorrow. It sends a message to every war criminal out there. No matter how old you are, how long ago the incident occurred, or what you did since the war, you will be hunted down, exposed for your crimes and will face justice. Being old shouldn't be a reprieve.

Do you have any type of record or proof of this? If you're referring to an actual battlefield occurrance, that doesn't count because it's a fucking battlefield. The truth is German POW's and the few Japanese POW's that were willing to surrender were actually treated a lot better than our own soldiers. They got proper clothing and shelter. They got two or three full meals a day. They themselves were surprised by this. In fact, there was one occurance when a Japanese soldier was unwillingly captured and had asked the Americans to execute him. The Americans refused. Also, when the Americans invaded Okinawa, they were actually respectful to the civilians on that island who just before were treated like shit by their own government.

I'm not saying everything the west did in that conflict was right. The US internment camp for German and Japanese Americans was wrong. The recist propaganda in America was wrong. Choosing a city that had been untouched by the war as the place to drop the atom bomb was wrong. But as far as torturing is concerned, the Western powers actually went out of their way to make sure none of this happened. If it did happen, then General Patton slapping one of his own soldiers in the face would be the least controversial thing to have happened.

agree, this is what holds the world behind, people give power to the wrong people and yet follow their orders, just like sheep

and I find it really insane that Hitler was surrounded by so many soldiers, but none ever had the guts to sacrifice himself and shoot him, ending this paranoic massive killing of innocent people who had nothing to do with war and politics

Actually there was someone named Stauffenberg. He wanted to kill Hitler, but he was stopped and executed.

Ok so Im going to sound like an idiot here BUT how was what he did against the law?? I mean if the Nazi's ran Germany surely they would have made all this ok right?? And if he commited a crime whilst the law wasnt in place then he shouldnt be held reponsible now.

Thats really, really not true and a far, far, far too simplistic and black vs. white take on what has happened.

Edit: I´m not saying the western european countrys had a hand in this/ provocated the germans or whatever, but just that it´s a very complicated issue that can´t be reduced to "they had fun murdering all those people, so they did" .

Crimes against humanity .  Look at the Nuremberg trials for details.

Didn't a group of Nazis try and rebel against hitler and take Germany back? I mean they did the whole movie with Tom Cruise I'm pretty sure I googled it and read it was a real event.