HansHill wrote: ↑Fri Feb 14, 2025 6:15 pm
So BA, you are tacitly inferring is that the Allied nations brought forth charges against the Nation of Germany they knew were a) unsubstantiated, b) likely to be false, and c) men were hung for this.
A) maybe they knew yes
B) this is a stretch. they probably just didn't care enough to vet them. Jews were not a priority. Accuracy was not a priority. This is something they can be criticized for, esp the Soviets.
C) I don't think anyone was hung solely on the basis of secondary sources or rumors like this, but you're free to show this to me
No Germans were even hung by the Soviets for "doing Katyn".
Allies can be criticized for pushing unsubstantiated narratives to the extent these narratives were unsubstantiated.
Historians operate under a different model.
If you're going to criticize a narrative, it seems like a sign of weakness to not focus on the most well corroborated, evidenced aspects, rather ones that no historians take seriously.