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Originally Posted by Tribesman
He volunteered of his own free will, he didn't volunteer for the army he volunteered for the SS. That required party membership.
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Tribesman makes a good point there. If ALL personnel assigned to the death camps (Auschwitz been one of them) were members of the Nazi party then yes, I would agree, they knew fully well what that they had ascribed to. So it does not therefore matter whether he himself did anything that would be defined as a war crime ... the charge would be he OF HIS OWN FREE WILL subscribed and supported a philosophy/ideology that was in all accounts heinous.
That is, if he was a Nazi. And not knowing all the facts, logic would lead me to believe that the Nazi's would NOT employ ordinary German conscripts to the camps.
And yes, on reconsideration, if he was a Nazi, and a guard at the camp....throw the book at him.