Hanging Heidegger and Celine along with the nazi generals in Nuremberg after ww2. Justified?

[Barnabas]

Should they have been executed for being notorious intelectuals who supported nazism?

I think that had that happened, later intelectuals would have been much more wary of supporting monstruous acts, like the many leftist intelectuals who defended Stalin in the 60s and 70s (Sartre for example).

[BlackCat]

Ececuting people with the wrong opinions are always a good thing - unfortunatedly, it rarely has the wanted effect.

[Fake Boris]

That would have been a retarded idea.

[Felch]

Every petty tyrant would have been given license by the US, UK, and France (among others) to kill people for having politically incorrect ideas.

[Tupac Shakur]

Hanging Celine.

[loinburger]

If an intellectual says "y'know what would be awesome? A country without any Jews," and then somebody goes and kills several million Jews, then it doesn't seem fair to hang the intellectual. If instead the intellectual says "y'know what would be awesome? If we gassed several million Jews with Zyklon B and then knitted their skins into lampshades," then maybe you'd have a case against him.

[molly bloom]

As much as I dislike Celine's opinions, I still like his novels. Heidegger's philosophical works I can live without (and have). If you hang them, then Ezra Pound should have been for the long drop too, and a few of the Italian Futurists.

T.S. Eliot was an antisemite and rightwinger as well, but where would you draw the line ?

[onodera]

Hanging Celine Dion

[Kuciwalker]

Hanging Celine Dion

[Tupac Shakur]

I suggested it before onodera did.

[Elok]

Re: OP: Absolutely not. Given that WWII ended shortly before the Red Scare and McCarthyism began, that would have been an atrocious, dangerous precedent--in addition to being unjust itself.

[Dr Strangelove]

I don't see the connection between Celine Dion and the Nazis.

[Fake Boris]

She is from Quebec, a land of nazi language laws.

[molly bloom]

I don't see the connection between Celine Dion and the Nazis.

They both employed instruments of torture, inflicted suffering on a large scale and kept funds in Switzerland.

[Ben Kenobi]

I don't see the connection between Celine Dion and the Nazis.

Both are enemies of the English.