[BlackElk]

This is like bear-baiting but the bear is entirely hobbled. If we assume that Herr Zafke actually IS the individual who worked at Auschwitz, and that he was guilty of anything and everything as charged, at 95 years of age, does he even know that he is being prosecuted? If convicted, will he be able to understand the cause of his punishment?

The time for these trials was 60 or 50 or 40 or even 30 years ago. We can very well address the same sort of evils including anti-Semitic genocide in trials of ex-soviet officials still capable of understanding the process or of today's Islamofascist looney tunes, all (both groups) on charges of "crimes against humanity" as wisely defined at the Nuremberg trials of Nazis after WW II.

From the Nazi Holocaust perpetrators, the big shots are now all dead, the medium shots are all dead. All that is left are a handful of likely senile cockroaches who are hardly worthy of much attention. Meanwhile, year by year, the ex soviets and the Islamofascists grow a little older in knowing freedom.

Also remember the case of Ivan Demanjuk (sp.?), a Ukrainia immigrant accused of being Ivan the Terrible at Treblinka (?). The US government stripped him of his citizenship on the apparent assumption of his guilt and deported him to Israel where he was tried and found guilty. The Israelis take these matters VERY seriously and have a process of mandatory appeals to their Supreme Courtwhich can and must review all the evidence. That court determined on evidence from soviet war archives including actual photographs of the actual Ivan the Terrible, that Demanjuk was not the man he was accused of being. Embarrassed American authorities then fell back on a theory that he must have been a different war criminal Ivan the Very Bad. Mistaken identity, don'tcha know? No harm. No foul! Somehow we are taught to expect more of our system of justice than mob hysteria based on false claims.

[MarvinStinson]

Give me your address and I’ll send you a box of Kleenex.

Your story of the poor, persecuted Nazis has broken my heart.

[oldschoolwargamer]

The real benefit to society of the trial is to continue to make the world aware of what happened during the Holocaust. The average Freeper is well aware of Holocaust history but as time goes by and our educational system continues to deteriorate it becomes more and more important to ensure that future generations are aware of what even supposedly “advanced societies” are capable of.

[dfwgator]

Demjanjuk was a different case. He was a Red Army soldier, captured by the Nazis, who had a choice of either serving as a guard, or being killed by the Nazis.

This guy voluntarily joined the SS, knowing full well what their job was.

[ex91B10]

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