spacekike:

This is a great post, except: statistically, probably none of these assholes wound up on the end of a rope or in front of a firing squad. One or two of the three men I can count probably died in combat, but the other one of two, and probably all the women, went back home afterwards. They went back home and, depending on where in Germany their home was they either (a) had a likely roughish (creature comforts and freedom-wise) life during which they denied any culpability and raised their children that it wasn’t THEM, it was the OTHER Germans or (b) had a likely very comfortable life, during which they maybe admitted that, collectively, bad things were done, and they taught their children that the NATION was guilty, but probably hemmed and hawed and never really went into what they did during the war.

The myth that there was any kind of punishment for the average, frontline Nazi is pernicious bullshit.