It happened a long time ago!
Head meet vice.
Just a cook? Is that what he calls it? Glad there is no statute limitations on murder.
He should claim to be a Muslim. The authorities will let him go and apologize.
It happened a long time ago!
Some cook - he never wondered about the lack of repeat customers???
Liberal dogma holds that the purpose of imprisonment is to rehabilitate the criminal.
Demjanjuk and this guy apparently led more or less blameless lives for decades after their WWII service. So it is not unreasonable to assume they had rehabilitated themselves.
The only group of criminals in the world that the left doesn’t feel compassion for are Nazis, so we go through the farce of trying lower and lower level and older and older “Nazi criminals.”
I suspect this is similar in motivation to the multiple hoax hate crimes we see. If your worldview is based on thinking or yourself as facing off bravely against evil, then you have to find some evil to face off against. Even if you have to invent it, or it’s a 93 year old ex-cook.
Meanwhile, with possible exception of some Khmer Rouge, none of the commies guilty of murdering at least 8x as many innocents as the Nazis are being put on trial.
Without further details the article says little, for example:
Auschwitz concentration camp was a *network* of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the Stammlager or base camp); Auschwitz II–Birkenau (the Vernichtungslager or extermination camp); Auschwitz III–Monowitz, also known as Buna–Monowitz (a labor camp); and 45 satellite camps.
Here is a map of the three Auschwitz main camps. The total area of the main combined central camps (not the satellite camps) is about 15 square miles.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Auschwitz_1944.jpg/694px-Auschwitz_1944.jpg
There were over 7,000 General SS who served there over the 5 years they were in operation.
The camp commander of Auschwitz, as well as the senior camp officers and non-commissioned officers, were all members of the SS-Totenkopfverbande, or the SS-TV.
Administrative and supply SS personnel were assigned mostly to the camp headquarters at the Auschwitz I camp. Such personnel, many of whom were Waffen-SS members but not members of the SS-TV camp service, were usually “out of the way” of the more horrific activities of the camp.
OK.....
So, if this guy was a guard in a death camp - and they can prove it - what are they going to do to him?
Put him in a maximum-security nursing home?
Nazi hunters.... give it a rest already.
How many guards from Stalin’s death camps have been tried? Zero.
Wish these people would put as much research into the Obastard administration as they put into this.
Just this last Saturday I visited Buchenwald in Germany. It was a very moving experience. You could feel what happened there. We must never forget and I don’t care how long it has been or what these people may have done between then and now to “redeem” themselves: they must be punished. An example must be made of them. What they did was unforgivable.
What? Eye witness testimony???? Even the chief hunters of the Nazi's , the Israeli Supreme Court let Demjanjuk go based on the value of “eyewitness” testimony and the probability that the Soviet's played hi-jinks with identity cards.
I went to my 30 year high school reunion a couple of years ago and you know what? After telling my most fond remembrances of my high school career, I had 2-3 guys tell me I was mistaken about details of stories and even in fact of some of the people that were supposedly involved. I was later proved wrong. Just about as often as my classmates were wrong when relating their most beloved memories.
“Memory is deceptive because it is colorized by today's events” Authored by Albert Einstein but nobody seems to remember exactly when or if.
“Hans Lipschis”
If his Lipshis, my arse whistles!
Clearly Truman lost WWII since we are still engaged in catching the perps.
Or does only such logic apply to Bush?
As background, the Waffen-SS were front line troops. Some of those divisions were conscripts (examples like Prince Eugen, 15th SS Grenadier (1st Latvian)). If you were Germanic in countries outside of Germany, many were conscripted into these SS divisions. Those divisions served on the front lines the entire war. If you were unlucky enough to be wounded, you frequently were sent to be camp guards while you either recuperated prior to rejoining your unit or never recuperated but could still serve.
So your choice was to die to avoid being conscripted or serve, and if you survived combat on the losing side and were wounded, you could choose to die instead of being a camp guard - these guards were generally used outside the camp on the perimeter. Pretty hard choices for a poor 21 year old farm hand from romania, lativa, etc.
Humans have a very strong survival instinct and many can and do things, that sitting in our homes in comfort seem easy to say no to.
Not saying what this guy did was ok, not saying he should be forgiven, but folks here should at least understand the situation. None of us know what we would do in such situations if we have never faced them - and I for one, have fortunately, not yet, faced such things in my life. If I ever do, I hope I measure up.
This guy was 21 and a nobody camp cook in 1941. I’m not sure this theory that “anyone who was there in any capacity is culpable” hasn’t descended to the level of witch hunt.
Rezept:
Maske anziehen
entleer Zyklon B ins Abflußrohr
zurück stehen
so schnell möglich weglaufen
Maske aufziehen; tief, langsam atmen
(Recipe:
don mask
empty Zyklon B into drain
stand back
run away fast
take off mask; breathe deeply, slowly)
HF
A camp cook? For the prisoners? That didn’t take much time out of his day.
But we do nothing to George Soros.
