• thedarkfly@feddit.nl
    12·
    14 hours ago

    I can’t find anything on Walter Hallstein and Adolf Heusinger being nazis or committing war crimes. Looks like the former was an academic drafted in the army and the latter a high-ranking officer who began his career before the nazis.

    I get that Heusinger can be seen as complicit (he must have known for whom he worked and didn’t quit), but what about Hallstein?

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      11·
      8 hours ago

      Wikipedia gives plenty on Adolf Heusinger’s involvement in the Nazi party and millitary.

      Here’s a link for Hallstein.

      But perhaps the most shocking thing of all about this speech is that Hallstein stated one of the most important laws to be introduced in the annexed countries was the “Law for the Protection of the German Blood, and the German Honour.” In other words, he advocated the imposition of the Nuremberg Race Laws as a top priority in “Greater Germany.” These laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying, or even having sexual relations, with persons of German or related blood.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
      3·
      6 hours ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hallstein

      In 1935, Hallstein attempted to start a military career alongside his academic duties.[17] In 1936, he managed to integrate a voluntary military service in an artillery unit.[17] In the years between 1936 and 1939, he attended several military courses[18] and was made a reserve officer.[17]

      Hallstein was a member of several nominally Nazi professional organizations,[g][19] but he was not a member of the Nazi Party

      Not the worst nazi but the voluntary military service under the Nazis seals the deal for me. Definitely a Nazi.