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Holy smokes they caught another Nazi!
DIR By: caretaker
Date: June 28, 2022, 10:05 am
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HTML https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/germany-former-nazi-guard-101-jailed-for-aiding-murder-1.5965941
"BERLIN - A 101-year-old man was convicted in Germany of 3,518
counts of accessory to murder on Tuesday for serving at the
Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp during the Second World
War.
The Neuruppin Regional Court sentenced him to five years in
prison."
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Re: Holy smokes they caught another Nazi!
DIR By: Siouxie
Date: June 28, 2022, 2:42 pm
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HTML https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/germany-former-nazi-guard-101-jailed-for-aiding-murder-1.5965941
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> "BERLIN - A 101-year-old man was convicted in Germany of 3,518
counts of accessory to murder on Tuesday for serving at the
Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp during the Second World
War.
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> The Neuruppin Regional Court sentenced him to five years in
prison."
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Unreal eh?
Another one...
HTML https://www.timesofisrael.com/prosecution-at-trial-of-nazi-camp-secretary-gas-chamber-cries-clearly-audible/
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> A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary who
absconded before her trial appeared in court in Germany on
Tuesday to face charges of aiding and abetting murder.
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> The first woman to be prosecuted for Nazi-era crimes in
decades, Irmgard Furchner is charged with complicity in the
killing of more than 11,000 people at Stutthof camp in Poland.
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Re: Holy smokes they caught another Nazi!
DIR By: Expatrick
Date: June 29, 2022, 5:34 am
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Interesting when you consider the reluctance to prosecute many
in the decades immediately after the war.
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Re: Holy smokes they caught another Nazi!
DIR By: macliam
Date: June 29, 2022, 6:38 am
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> Interesting when you consider the reluctance to prosecute many
in the decades immediately after the war.
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Let alone the high-ranking Nazis who were allowed to live out
their lives..... like this guy
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZaC23dEANc
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZaC23dEANc
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Re: Holy smokes they caught another Nazi!
DIR By: caretaker
Date: June 29, 2022, 8:53 am
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> Interesting when you consider the reluctance to prosecute many
in the decades immediately after the war.
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Have you ever seen Genghis Cohn (from the book The Dance of
Genghis Cohn)? Local functionary has a past, etc etc. Some of
them, like macliam's prince in the youtube video were too
popular to keep in jail (but given how hard core that one was,
he should have hung). Some, like the geezer they just convicted
had alibi stories that friends and family would back up and
managed to stay out of the system until they died. If they were
just camp guards, and if they weren't singled out by prisoners
as being particularly bad right away they escaped the initial
scrutiny. The fact that that one tried to lie about his service
when he'd worked there for 3 years probably didn't help. Since
the SS was declared an illegal organisation there were a lot who
found false documents that said they were somewhere or someone
else, and managed to move to Canada or the US, or fled to German
expat communities in South America. The occupation troops spent
a lot of time rounding up the Waffen SS and putting them in
concentration camps for a couple of years as revenge for killing
so many of their soldiers, and while they had witnesses from the
camps (Simon Weisenthal began collecting evidence as soon as he
recovered from his own imprisonment) they went after those men
and women as well. After the trials were over and the Cold War
began in earnest both Soviets and the west needed German
collaboration more than ever so if you were useful you got a
pass. Local sentiment that their country was being treated
unfairly or outright denial they had ever been in the wrong
would prompt people to protect them.
I knew quite a few people who fought in WW2, and some were
Germans, but I don't think any of them are still alive. The
number of people I know who were even alive in WW2 is rapidly
declining as well so this fellow getting his day in court was a
surprise. He could be the last one!
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Re: Holy smokes they caught another Nazi!
DIR By: Expatrick
Date: June 29, 2022, 11:19 am
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I find it amazing how many of these lived into their '90s (&
beyond, in this case), lucky them, unlike their victims.
Still, they do say "only the good die young"...
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