re: The Nuremberg Trials

Seems like a lot of the pious individuals on here deem anyone who ever had ties in Germany, specifically Nazi german, to be thrown away for life. I assume all of these individuals would never purchase items from Adidas, Puma, Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz, Siemens.......all of these companies were part of the German war machine. Those were totally different times and these companies had little choice to either get onboard or go by the wayside

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So did everyone else in Germany. It wasn't exactly a secret what they thought about the Jews and the Slavs. They were voted in because a lot of people agreed with their platform.

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The Nazis never won a voting majority- just a plurality

The Nuremburg trials were a joke and Hess should have been freed!! Most snowflakes out there just hear the word 'Nazi' and freak out, yet they know nothing...

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By saying Hess didn't deserve to spend the rest of his life in prison is not defending him. I'm merely saying his sentence was too harsh compared with other war criminals who got less time or no time served at all.

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But that’s a really dumb way to look at it, isn’t it? The others getting less or no time has no bearing on what Hess should have gotten. Instead of Hess getting off lighter, many more should have been punished more severely. Hess was one of many monsters that Hitler unleashed on people.

RE the company Siemens, you need to study the history of Ravensbruk & the role the company played in the deaths of 10000's of slave laborers from the camp. The historical book "RAVENSBRUK, Hitler's Death Camp for Women" lays out the company's complicity in chapter after chapter. And it was the company's administrators who pushed Himmler hard for its access to those cheap laborers; it by no means jumped on any band wagon.As for Nuremberg being a "joke", how would you have handled those crimes and the Nazis behind them? And you are looking at them from your ivory palace, from rose colored glasses 70 yrs later. Tell the 1000's of victims who testified that they were a joke.

And if you ever dig really obsessively into your family genealogy using online databases like Ancestry dot com you will end up crossing wires with other cousins from all over the country who you never knew existed. I have had so many conversations with 3rd, 4th, and even 5th cousins who are scattered all over the US. It is interesting to hear their family stories and how their branch ended up in Arkansas or Texas, etc.. Most of our families from the late 1700s to the late 1800s usually had 6-12 children in households and they eventually, with time, scattered all over the place setting down roots far away from where they were raised. I have connected a lot of dots this way. I usually focused only on my direct lineage and didn’t try to hard to uncover what became of the 9 siblings I saw on a particular 1800s census but with the technology of today and so many people researching it becomes inevitable( if you actually manage a family tree online) that you connect with all of these distant cousins.

Play stupid games...

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Duke got 40% of the governor’s race vote. Did the Klan have a mandate in Louisiana?

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That's not how a parliamentary democracy works, bruh. 44% of the vote in 1933 meant 44% of all seats in the German parliament. They held 288 seats out of 647 after the election. While it wasn't a majority, they were the largest party in the Reichstag with the next closest party having just 120 seats.