We as Americans like to forget that we slaughtered and imprisoned a continent of people. America was created through a genocide worse than what the Nazis did. Do you have an "informed revulsion" for every American veteran throughout our expansion?
Who is "we?" I didn't slaughter or imprison anyone. Do you know of someone living who did? If there are any people alive today who committed crimes against humanity concerning the Indians, let's bring them to trial. I'd be all for it.
Also, it's simplistic to lump the entire history of expansion and interactions with Indians all together and call it genocide. Each tribe, each area, each time period is a different set of circumstances. Some of it came close to being genocide. Some of it was completely different, and some of it was entirely justified.
If you don't, then you're being an extreme hypocrite. Or how about our own internment of Japanese-Americans? I also can't see how our carpet bombing cities is somehow forgivable. As others have mentioned, prosecution of Nazis are basically witch hunts. People get rabid and start frothing at the mouth at the mere mention of them. Someone mentioned in another thread how we like to think of the Nazis as some soulless beasts spawned straight from hell, creatures of pure evil, instead of humans.
Our internment of Japanese citizens was tyranny. It was not, however, comparable to the death camps. Differences in degree matter.
Carpet bombing cities? Perfectly justifiable, IMO. Don't bring about a war if you don't want to face the horrors of war. If you hit me, I don't have to just hit you as hard as you hit me, I can justifiably hit you until you are no longer capable of hitting me.
It is precisely BECAUSE the Nazis were human that we must hunt them down and punish them. We must make other humans realize how badly it will go for them if they choose that path.
All I'm suggesting is that I don't think every man that ever wore a Nazi uniform should be held responsible for the actions of everyone else.
Neither do I. Who is advocating that position?