I'm not going to pretend to understand the feelings that went through the heads of the men mentioned here.

But, I could certainly see how after witnessing and surviving a foreign army rampaging through my home, killing tens of thousands and seizing everything in sight one would develop an extreme distaste for the Germans. After surviving that, to witness the SS round up or simply murder the Jews, communist party officals (or amyone else for that matter) and engage in the rape & pillage and reprisal (ie. Kill any Russian in a 10:1 ratio as revenge for Germans killed by partisans) routine they were known for must have created a kind of rage that is difficult to contain or control.

Its hard for me to imagine. But I think that it would be hard to let some SS guy live in that situation. Why should he live when so many didn't? Is that justice?

There is little morality to be found in war, particularly one like WW2. As distasteful as it may be, I don't think you can judge these men with our civilian at peace moral perspective.

Nonsense. The survivors feel differently. That's very real.

It's not "very real". If a survivor knew their captour was shot, run over by a tank, put in prison immediately or on the run for years, but eventually captured the survivor would feel about the same amount of resolution as their personality is disposed to synthesize. Nothing special happens in human consciousness if the resolution is extra gory.

That is patently incorrect. If it were, horrific methods of execution would never be imagined or used as deterrent punishments throughout history. The method of execution can have a profound psychological impact on many different people in many different ways.

Further, if there was no difference to a victim or survivor between imprisonment and execution, we wouldn't have a death penalty debate at all.