Southern Justice/Sippenhaft

[Perianne]

What I refer to as Southern Justice is handing out justice to those who have harmed you in such a manner that no one ever tries it again.

When the great (at what he did) Reinhard Heydrich was murdered by the British-directed plan in Czechoslovakia in 1942, Hitler's response was so brutal that Britain backed off on similar attempts.

It is likely that neither the Czech government-in-exile nor the British SOE foresaw the possibility that the Germans would apply the principle of Sippenhaft (collective responsibility) on the scale they did in avenging Heydrich's assassination.

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Sippenhaft is a German term for the idea that a family or clan shares the responsibility for a crime or act committed by one of its members, justifying collective punishment.



In Unforgiven, we see this response by Will Munny:





It is time we hit back at the rioters in a similar (Sippenhaft) fashion.

[Cletus]

Heydrich was not "murdered". He was a legitimate military target. Killing him was a service to humanity.

[pjohns]

Sippenhaft is a German term for the idea that a family or clan shares the responsibility for a crime or act committed by one of its members, justifying collective punishment.



It is time we hit back at the rioters in a similar (Sippenhaft) fashion.

That reminds me of an All in the Family that I saw, some time ago, in which Archie Bunker declared that his wife, Edith, ought to continue going to church, since the family needed at least one member representing it before God.

[Perianne]

If we held the BLM community responsible for what one of its members do, perhaps we would make headway in the fight against them.