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Judge orders release of records on Nazi war criminals who settled in Canada (ottawacitizen.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 days ago* (4 children)

What do you do with teenage soldiers as young as 15? Not a hypothetical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_SS_Panzer_Division_Hitlerjugend

Bearing in mind they grew up knowing no political climate other than Nazi Germany. They would have been 3 when Hitler took power.

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    The division committed several war crimes while en route to and during the early battles of the Allied Normandy landings, including the Ascq and Normandy massacres, and several massacres, arsons and rapes in the cities of Plomion, Tavaux, Bouillon, Godinne, Hun, Rivere, Warnant and Namur.

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