> How is 15 minutes of jail time per murder just? Justice isn't revenge. And to be honest, for a 94 year old, 5 years is effectively life long. (Germany has no

> How is 15 minutes of jail time per murder just? Justice isn't revenge. And to be honest, for a 94 year old, 5 years is effectively life long. (Germany has none of that "30,000 years prison term" silliness.) > Can the collective HN wisdom also help me understand what is a 23 years old (as he was in 1942) supposed to do in the situation and stop the atrocities? Not participating would be a good start (the SS was a volunteer organization at that point). Trying to get people out of it even better. For some reason it's not particularly well-known, but the German populace did manage to sabotage one of the Nazis' genocide: Aktion T4 was scaled down and partially cancelled after broad resistance formed at every level of society and administration. The holocaust wouldn't have been nearly as deadly if people had resisted more.