[Shaun]

I've just watched 'The Reader' and am also studying this topic [again] in college.

The debate I want to raise is the punishment of workers in the Nazi party, workers at concentration camps, secret services, State Police...were they in the wrong?

After all, they were doing their job. I doubt they could just hand in their P45 and go 'oh btw Goebbels, this is rly bad, ur sick lol bye x'.

I think the measures gone to repent for their guilt of the Holocaust and the War were, and are - particularly with the level of grey area and hesitancy to talk about it - too extreme and self-critical.

Of course, the war was terrible and the Holocaust even worse, and there were bound to have been very sick individuals who took pleasure, or even displayed nonchalance to their work, but I don't think you can tar them all with the same brush.