Point taken. This was my first post on the matter:
Considering the number of active participants in the mass murdering who were ignored, indeed the vast majority of the SS weren't pursued at all. Now when there is clear blue water between the Germans and the Nazis the last few members are being tracked down and tried maybe to establish that there really were the two races in Germany.
There was no punishment for refusing to work in the camps, presumably becoming public knowledge
I wonder how happy some of the hind sight warriors of today would be to go back in time and be known as 'not a team player' in a totalitarian state where 'Nacht und nebel' was an established police procedure.
In fact I wonder how many have spoken out against some woke excesses or refused to attend unconscious bias training courses at work as a matter of principle.
In this case who knows whether she was an out and out Nazi or a late teens, early twenties girl glad of the work?
I believe you absolutely when you say that despite 'Sippenhaft', 'Nacht und Nebel' and popular sayings like 'Careful what you say lest you go up the chimney' not a single person was
officially punished for declining a directive they felt was morally wrong.
Where we do appear to part company is your certitude that the people who were living in a war torn country after 12 years of Nazi rule trusted implicitly in the rule of law and that
unofficial sanctions would never be applied to an awkward person.
You and I are lucky enough to live in a society with no death penalty a robust and non political legal system plus a plethora of quangos dedicated to ensuring the rights of the individual. We can express our views and opinions mostly without the police getting involved and long may it continue.
What I don't know is how I'd behave in a foreign country, in the midst of a struggle for national survival, under a dictatorship three quarters of a century ago. So how can I know what someone who was there at that time and place do? Rather like some of the trials of soldiers on Op Banner almost 50 years ago.
You on the other hand seem to be absolutely certain that you'd stand up to the authority which for eleven years of your 19 you'd been taught to obey.
Maybe we're comparing apples and oranges.
ETA 'Don't forget to let the likes of Holland, Walters, Gilbert et al know of your discovery of your new empirical evidence.'
I didn't know it was possible to prove the nonexistence of these punishments. That should make the job of atheists a bit easier.