Everyone knows that, Dave.
No ones claiming that the men in brown shirts were perfect angles.
On the contrary, they rose to prominence and infamy on a crest of broken bones & blood.
Point is, the actions they took were not international actions, and as devastating as they were to their victims, they did not rise to the level of "war crimes".
They would have had a mighty full docket if they started indicting everyone who mistreated a jew, or broke a window.
Really, if the International Tribunal of War Crimes found the SA not guilty of war crimes, thats good enough for me.
I doubt if Lutze would have been indicted.
The organization he headed found innocent, but he himself guilty ? What would they have tried him on, assisting the SS in Kristallnacht ?
Highly unlikely, he was on the outer fringe of party matters, and less than that on any military/security matters.
Far as R�hm, little use speculating about that.
Last edited by Skynyrd; 10/21/2011 01:45 AM.
