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It's slightly more sinister than that. If you had to be a member of a Nazi organization to get ahead or get the government off your back because you might be vi
by HarryHirsch 2y ago
It's slightly more sinister than that. If you had to be a member of a Nazi organization to get ahead or get the government off your back because you might be viewed as politically unreliable the SS was a common choice. Members would do some paramilitary exercises now and then and be otherwise left alone. For things like Einsatzgruppe or Totenkopf you had to volunteer. The guy knew that well enough.
- tptacek 2y agoYes. Also: that's common knowledge now, but probably wasn't in 1959 (certainly the distinction wasn't apparent in newspaper articles of the time). I don't think it was crazy for OPRF to assume, regardless of any documentation Kulle provided when he was hired, that he'd been vetted at immigration, and wasn't a war criminal. Of course, it was crazy for administrators to come to his defense in 1983 when the details were flushed out! But the village as a whole appears to have wanted him gone.