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Originally Posted by VtwinVince
The politics within Luftwaffe veterans ranks postwar were pretty brutal. Take the case of Graf von Einsiedel, a confirmed member of the National Komittee Freies Deutschland
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Vince,
It is appropriate to point out that Einsiedel spent six years collaborating with Stalin's regime, three of those after the war had ended. Veterans of the air force of Nazi Germany were in a very poor position to cast moral judgments, but it is difficult to fault them in instances such as Einsiedel's. It is eminently possible to justify Einsiedel's behaviour before the fall of Hitler's regime, but not after, when a Stalinist dictatorship replaced the Nazi one in East Germany.
Regards,
Dan