Ya know… I always sort of viewed the WWII museum in New Orleans as some sort of Boomer-conservative thing, glorifying war and nationalism (and Murica). But it occurs to me that I might want to reconsider my views at this point, given how much current events track with the past events of WWII (at least as far as politics in Germany) and the fact that America really did fight against Nazism then.

I saw Laffy’s statement that all of Trump’s cabinet nominees are probably going to be approved, and I thought about legislators who supported the Nazis in Nazi Germany and how they fared after the war. Did they live in shame? I did some research. Apparently not (with some exceptions like von Papen, who was never able to restart his political career even though he tried). I think everybody knew, but it always stayed sort of in the background.

And I landed on this article by an academic (a scholar!) written for the WWII Museum. Which seems pretty good, actually, although I can’t tell at this point if there’s some sort of crypto-something going on, but I’ll assume not for now.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/justice-in-post-nazi-western-germany#:~:text=Immediately%20after%20the%20establishment%20of,brought%20up%20if%20they%20behaved