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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

For one, the fact that whether someone was tried and convicted was generally not based on guilt, but whether or not they were of use to the allies or not.

Werner Von Braun was probably the most famous example, but there are hundreds of others.