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The U.S. record is not spotless here. The U.S. let quite a few somewhat shady characters into the U.S. post-war ... and turned a blind eye to what they'd done during the war ... if they could be enlisted in the nascent battle against the Soviet Union.Cheers,
-- Arne Langsetmo
That doesn't change the fact that a number of Japanese and German war criminals were imprisoned and/or hanged after being tried for war crimes. The easy way out would have been to let them skate and recruit them to rebuild their countries. I know I quoted Patton earlier, but he got into trouble for failure to de-Nazify the sector he was in charge of -even though all those Nazis helped Patton restore water, electricity, the postal service, etc. Eisenhower was right though: these people need to be removed from positions of power and tried and punished if possible because what they did was so vile. If the mail runs slower, tough.
