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It's peobably worth noting Doenitz still spent 10 years in prison for crimes against peace. He didn't get out early because he wouldn't denounce his allegiance

• readonthegoapp 3y ago
  you are saying that US military leaders should have served time too?
  • ekianjo 3y ago
    If we were serious about crimes against civilians, much certainly so but we all know this is just a big farce to make revenge look defensible
  • hef19898 3y ago
    In just and fair world, yes. In the real world we live in, not so much. Examples of action nobody was tried for, Axis or Allies: Strategic terror bombing of civilians and civilian infrastructure, unrestricted submarine warfare.
  • eyelidlessness 3y ago
    I can’t say whether they should have, but I can say that part of the reason international law is a joke among friends is that it was designed such that this would be the question. The US committed atrocities in the war, and it also took extreme measures in the war which shouldn’t be judged as harshly. But we don’t have a meaningful framework to reconcile those because reconciling them is intentionally excluded from the framework.
  • winrid 3y ago
    That wasn't my intent. You mean the US submarine commanders? Probably not, no..