When it came to power in 1933, the Nazi Party had over 2 million members. In 1939, the membership total rose to 5.3 million with 81% being male and 19% being female. It continued to attract many more and by 1945 the party reached its peak of 8 million with 63% being male and 37% being female.
As the title says.
Hmm... Perhaps, under Soviet urging, the Allies legislate that every Nazi Party member has to sign a formal statement agreeing that the Party was a criminal conspiracy and formally resigning membership. On (say) 8 May 1947, all Nazi Party members (i.e. those who haven't resigned) will be hauled before the International War Crimes Tribunal on capital charges.
Thoughts? I'm stretching plausibility a bit, but I want to find some semi-reasonable way to meet the challenge.
It would be a blood-letting to make Khorne proud.
Well, that's why I gave everyone the chance to get out by resigning from the Party. It would seem plausible enough to conclude that those who don't resign are those who deserve something more than a slap on the wrist. And, of course, this would require some change in the Big Three's thinking, though I think you could convince Churchill and Stalin to go along with it.Nah they would just get a slap on the wrist like OTL
I wonder how the Nazis would act if they were forced into concentration camps like their victims were.
I wonder how the Nazis would act if they were forced into concentration camps like their victims were.
All members?
Nothing less than genocide.
Would people be as glib here about discussing every member of the Communist Party in the Stalinist USSR being forced to go off to stay in a Gulag in Siberia or just plain being shot? Would there be a moral difference?
I was thinking more along the lines as how they treated the jews and other "utermensh" getting that same treated. Forced to do pointless exercises, barely being fed, worked to death, etc etc.
I was thinking more along the lines as how they treated the jews and other "utermensh" getting that same treated. Forced to do pointless exercises, barely being fed, worked to death, etc etc.