Some of their offspring found its way to this forum at least.
Read this book and its customer reviews if you want to have further insight how it was back then.
"Alone in Berlin" by Hans Fallada
https://www.amazon.com/Alone-Berlin-...lone+in+Berlin
Some personal history deviating a bit from the thread...
My grandfather was a cavalry captain on an estate in a region which now belongs to Poland. They where normal people and he got drafted when the war started. He wasn't a Nazi or anything. But it was still a prussian minded time. You did what your superior told you to do. He got shot in the butt on his horse before entering Stalingrad and this was his lucky shot which got him back home. My grandmother (his wife) also lived on the estate and when the russians came they lost everything. They flet by foot serveral hundred miles.... Both had not seen each other for like two years and met again just by coincidence in a western German town. That's where they started a new life and family. My grandparents wheren't shy about telling war time stories and as a child I was always fascinated how they got through all of this. In the beginning many just felt it was their duty to support their country beeing at war and only realized in the end they where tricked into something they never wanted in the beginning. Therefor the reference to the book mentioned above...
Edit:
While Schindlers List is worth looking don't judge everything by that one movie.
I recomend watching "Generation War" as well which you might find on Netflix.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...c-nazi-germany
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Most were executed, but some fled to Latin America, especially Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. I believe some of them were pardoned, mainly scientists.
hitler would have people killed if they disobeyed. that on top of "well, all my buddies joined up" and the rousing speeches of a charismatic leader made for a lot of young, dumb followers.
hell, hitler youth kids grew up thinking about the reich like boy and girl scouts do about america.
and then that makes you wonder....
No sense crying over spilt beer, unless you're drunk...
The dutch nazis(including their leader) where some of the last people we used the death penalty on before it was banned.
A lot were given asylum in the US and Russia in exchange for medical advancements brought on by human experimentation.
They moved to USA and got high rank jobs. Nazism is well alive today everywhere, but we just call them leftists and rightists.
The majority of the scientists, numbering almost 500, were deployed at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, Fort Bliss, Texas and Huntsville, Alabama to work on guided missile and ballistic missile technology. This in turn led to the foundation of NASA and the US ICBM program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
What? Were we going to let these guys roam the world and settle in countries that would become our enemies?
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it but those who live in the past deny themselves a future.
Oh the edgy alt-righters are out in full force. I guess it's easy to rip holocaust victims instead of actually doing anything to save MUH WHITE RACE.
We took the smartest ones and hired them with large salaries here in the USA to make us Uber German weapons and technology.
The rest of the Nazis that couldn't be of use, were executed. Granted, lots of the wealthy Nazis fled to south america, just like the Confederados of the civil war. But there is so much conspiracy surrounding that, there is no telling who actually did or didnt make it.