Comment by meric
9 years ago
I dispute your point - not everyone could have chosen to stop being nazis and live.
"Approximately 77,000 German citizens were killed for one or another form of resistance by Special Courts, courts-martial, People's Court and the civil justice system. "
"Almost every community in Germany had members taken away to concentration camps. As early as 1935 there were jingles warning: "Dear Lord God, keep me quiet, so that I don't end up in Dachau." (It almost rhymes in German: Lieber Herr Gott mach mich stumm / Daß ich nicht nach Dachau komm.)[17] "Dachau" refers to the Dachau concentration camp"
Which would still be a technicality because it's a specific edge case to the rule
- Given EXTENUATING circumstances, the choice may be difficult to exercise.
And even then - many people exercised that right, even knowing the risks - because it was just the right thing to do, and being a nazi wasn't.
I think the time to address the "staving Nazi" problem is when there are staving Nazis. Until then, keeping them out seems fine.
I'd note that I'm pretty sure by the time Nazi's owned the government in Germany it was too late.
I thought this was about the present.
The comment I replied to mentioned: "let's say a German business owner in the 1930s".