For decades, the US Department of Justice has used a tool to sniff out former Nazis who lied their way into becoming American citizens: a law that allowed the department to denaturalize, or strip, citizenship from criminals who falsified their records or hid their illicit pasts.
operation paperclip was fucked, but when i think of the darkest legacy of US-controlled nazi ratlines, i think of Operation Bloodstone, which specifically targeted violent sadists and hands-on mass murderers like Klaus Barbie (aka The Butcher of Lyon) to be protected from post-war prosecution, transported safely with new identities, and redeployed around the world to continue specifically doing terrorism to the populace of any state that seemed to be considering left politics by training and supporting torture campaigns specifically to repress popular movements.
some people can justify “oh well we needed their scientific knowledge” for weapons development. i’m not one of those people, but i’ve heard some make the attempt. bringing up Bloodstone cuts through all the shit and shows how the US intelligence apparatus specifically sought out the most vicious and repurposed them to train others and develop entire projects targeting teachers, journalists, and intellectuals who spoke against the puppet governments of the US. it shows how our government had no moral problem with nazis, barbarism, secret police, disappearances of civilians, torture, or any of it, and in fact wanted to replicate those repressive techniques elsewhere.
operation paperclip was fucked, but when i think of the darkest legacy of US-controlled nazi ratlines, i think of Operation Bloodstone, which specifically targeted violent sadists and hands-on mass murderers like Klaus Barbie (aka The Butcher of Lyon) to be protected from post-war prosecution, transported safely with new identities, and redeployed around the world to continue specifically doing terrorism to the populace of any state that seemed to be considering left politics by training and supporting torture campaigns specifically to repress popular movements.
some people can justify “oh well we needed their scientific knowledge” for weapons development. i’m not one of those people, but i’ve heard some make the attempt. bringing up Bloodstone cuts through all the shit and shows how the US intelligence apparatus specifically sought out the most vicious and repurposed them to train others and develop entire projects targeting teachers, journalists, and intellectuals who spoke against the puppet governments of the US. it shows how our government had no moral problem with nazis, barbarism, secret police, disappearances of civilians, torture, or any of it, and in fact wanted to replicate those repressive techniques elsewhere.
Even non-politically Amerikkkan ratfuckery makes the nonexistence of justice make sense.
Of course this “culture” rewards losers and bullies and will punish those who stand up to them.