Who cares that was almost 90yrs as ago
From Google AI:
People continue to investigate and uncover details about Nazi collaborators decades after World War II for reasons ranging from personal reconciliation and historical accuracy to combating modern extremism. While direct legal punishment is unlikely, the ongoing pursuit is fueled by a need to address deep-seated, often silenced family secrets, national accountability, and the desire to understand how “ordinary” people become complicit in genocide. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Here are the primary reasons why this pursuit remains significant:
- National Reckoning and Historical Accuracy
- Challenging Narratives: Many nations, such as the Netherlands, are moving past simplified, postwar narratives that focused only on heroism (the resistance) to face uncomfortable truths about local collaboration.
- The Scale of Complicity: Collaboration was essential for the Holocaust, helping to identify and deport massive numbers of victims, including 75% of the Dutch Jewish population.
- Access to Records: Digitizing archives allows for a more nuanced understanding of how different social classes, genders, and regions behaved during the occupation. [2, 5, 6]
- Personal and Family Reconciliation
- Uncovering Family Secrets: As the generation that lived through the war passes away, descendants are increasingly searching for the truth about their parents’ or grandparents’ wartime actions.
- Finding “Rest”: Experts note that although uncovering a relative was a collaborator is painful, the process of bringing the information to light can bring closure to families who have lived with silence or rumors for decades. [1, 7, 8, 9]
- Justice, Memory, and “Never Again”
- The Official Record: Investigating collaborators ensures that their actions are officially documented and cannot be erased or denied by revisionist histories.
- Modern Education: These files are vital for education, providing specific, concrete examples of how neighbors or officials turned against each other, which helps teach younger generations about the dangers of prejudice.
- Combating Modern Extremism: As authoritarianism and antisemitism rise again, studying the mechanisms of the Holocaust serves as an “inoculation” against extremism, showing how quickly democratic institutions can be dismantled. [3, 8, 10, 11]
- Psychological and Social Impact
- “Digging Where It Hurts”: As one organizer noted, to heal as a society, nations must look their history in the face, including the dark chapters of betrayal.
- The “Ordinary” Collaborator: The research helps show that collaboration was not just committed by monster-like figures, but often by neighbors motivated by greed, fear, or existing prejudices, making it a warning for all time. [1, 6]
The opening of large, long-sealed archives—such as the Dutch files on 425,000 suspected collaborators in 2025—demonstrates that the desire to “look history in the face” continues to drive this effort. [1, 12]
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[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/dutch-files-accused-nazi-collaborators.html
[3] Lessons from the Holocaust for Today's World: Never Forget, Never Again | Zachor Foundation
[4] https://psmag.com/social-justice/naming-and-shaming-american-nazis/
[7] https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1hqd75p/netherlands_to_open_archive_on_people_accused_of/
[8] Suspected Nazi collaborators named in the Netherlands
[10] Pursuit of Nazi collaborators - Wikipedia
[11] The study: How does Gen Z relate to the Nazi era? | Arolsen Archives
The vatican helped with it.
The vatican is primarily responsible for p.o.s.'s nazis escaping to Central and South America.
To this day the vatican has not come clean or even opened its “files”
I am Catholic but I do not believe in the vatican as we know it.