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In most cases - nothing. Most of them were allowed to go home, get de-nazificiation certificates and 'live happily (and forgetfully) ever after'.

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Because of the 'just following orders' defence, killing Jews was not enough to convict someone, but going further than those orders was (ie. excesive cruelty/violence).

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As a matter of fact, 'just obeying orders' was notaccepted. For example, a number of SS guards were hanged after the Bergen-Belsen Trial (September-November 1945) for murdering prisoners. However, there weren't that many trials.

The biggest problem was that with the onset of the Cold War, the West turned West Germany into an ally and so they soon lost any enthusiasm for prosecuting the murderers of the Holocaust. Hunting down Nazi killers was left to people like Simon Wiesenthal.

Worst of all, some Western governments developed a soft spot for anti-Communists, regardless of their past.

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