Submitted by AutoModerator t3_11hylr5 in history
user27900 t1_jb7xcx6 wrote
What happened to those rebels in Germany after WW2 Can anyone give some brief history of them? I here some story that after Germany surrender they were killed or put into camps by those former Germany police and SS who have become peace keepers of the provisional government and the Alince just sit there and watch all these happened.
calijnaar t1_jbbc1yg wrote
Whatcrebels are we talking about here? Very few people who actively opposed the nazis actually survived. I don't know of any who were killed after the surrender. Also, denazification was quite far from perfect and a lot of former nazis (and people who more or less willingly supported the nazi regime in some way) managed to rather seamlessly go 8ver into the FRG, but I don't think anyone knowingly utilised former SS as "peace keepers of the provisional government".
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phillipgoodrich t1_jboxezp wrote
There is an interesting little anecdote along these lines that I learned from visiting the site museum at Buchenwald, Germany, provided by their federal government. There was a prison population of communists and Russian POW's housed there in the last year of WWI, and in the waning months of the war, when Buchenwald fell to the Allies, that the guards turned their weapons over to the prisoners, along with the keys to the gates and barracks, and simply traded places with the prisoners. It must have looked very weird at the time, and resonates the same today.
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