I always enjoy reminding people how actual nazis were treated by liberals i.e. with kid gloves.

cw for the link: mentions of bbq’ed nazi and a lot of handwringing about sorting the fash into harry potter houses instead of actually judging them for their crimes:

“I remember talking to Soviet officers,” he adds. “And they were baffled. “You know they’re guilty,” they’d say. ‘Why don’t you just shoot them?’” There was a lot of that kind of feeling in postwar Germany."