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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2025
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I think its important to point out that although not to the extent of the west at all the soviets were also far from perfect at purging instead of "strategically using" Nazis.
The difference being the Soviet-captured Nazis were forced at gunpoint to contribute to their R&D projects, being treated as prisoners before either being imprisoned or executed. NATO made its first supreme commander an SS member, put so many Nazis in the West German government that there were actually a higher percentage of them there than in the actual Third Reich, and let von Braun live a long and comfortable life as a free man.