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German Woman, 95, Charged With Complicity In 10,000 Concentration Camp Deaths
Huffpost ^ | 2/6/21 | Mary Papenfuss

Posted on 02/06/2021 1:45:48 PM PST by DoodleDawg

A 95-year-old German woman has been charged with being an accessory to the murder of more than 10,000 people at the Stutthof concentration camp in Poland during World War II.

The unidentified woman, who reportedly worked as a secretary and commandant’s aide in the camp for two years, will be tried in juvenile court because she was under 21 at the time, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the small town of Itzehoe, northwest of Hamburg.

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KEYWORDS: concentrationcamp; nazi; worldwar2
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To: Hot Tabasco

Astonishing that you are a NAZI apologist, and even more astonishing that you are willing to trivialize the systematic murder of two million Jews here on FR. You might want to dial that back.

If any American soldiers committed war crimes during the Vietnam War, then yes, those should be investigated and prosecuted. I hope there were few, or no, such incidents. In any event, it’s up to the U.S. Government to prosecute those crimes as they see fit...just like it’s up to the German government to prosecute WWII war crimes as *they* see fit.


41 posted on 02/06/2021 3:59:19 PM PST by dinodino ( )
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To: dinodino

“It’s not nuts. As secretary, she would likely have seen documents indicating that Jews were being killed in the camp. She’s an accessory to atrocities and needs to pay.”

And what, exactly, could she have done about the situation?
Called the SS?
Oops, the SS was running the camps.
Called the Gestapo?
The Gestapo would have thrown HER into the camp. After torturing her of course.
Perhaps the local Burgermeister?
He would have turned her into the Gestapo for spreading false propaganda.

Also consider that she would have been indoctrinated in the schools and the Bund Deutscher Mädel, League Of German Girls, to follow orders and directions without questioning them. That Jews and others were sub-human and were the enemies of Germany.
Quite frankly, she DIDN’T KNOW any different.


42 posted on 02/06/2021 4:00:00 PM PST by oldvirginian (The glass is half empty because the damned thing is cracked and leaking. The 2020 election is proof.)
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To: Glad2bnuts

Something I always wondered about was what happened to the South American “tech boom” from all of the ex Nazis who escaped to there? I finally found out that the CIA bought them off in SA and brought most of the tech here.


43 posted on 02/06/2021 4:01:35 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: PGalt

Why hasn’t the world gone after the Japanese war criminals with the same sense of justice and vengeance as it has with the Germans?

I am all for going after war criminals.

Never forgive and never forget.


44 posted on 02/06/2021 4:03:12 PM PST by thegagline
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To: Jonty30

Exactly!


45 posted on 02/06/2021 4:04:49 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: DoodleDawg

George Soros up next.

Or is he of a protected class?


46 posted on 02/06/2021 4:05:36 PM PST by thegagline
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To: oldvirginian

“I was just following orders” didn’t work at Nuremberg, and it won’t work now.


47 posted on 02/06/2021 4:05:59 PM PST by dinodino ( )
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To: thegagline

I agree with you 100%! The Chinese should aggressively pursue this.


48 posted on 02/06/2021 4:06:33 PM PST by dinodino ( )
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To: Vaquero

I’ve read about the atrocities committed by Stalin, Mao and others quite a few times along with seeing documentaries about them. Many of today’s students are not exposed to history about the Nazi atrocities or the other atrocities.

Imagine a specific attempt to exterminate all Christians on the planet or to exterminate all east Asians or sub-Saharan people as designated by race. That was the difference between what the Nazis tried to do and what communist tyrants did to political subgroups of their own people.


49 posted on 02/06/2021 4:07:57 PM PST by familyop
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To: dinodino

Like he said. What was she supposed to do...call a cop?


50 posted on 02/06/2021 4:08:59 PM PST by RedwM
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To: dinodino

So should the Americans. Bataan Death March. etc.


51 posted on 02/06/2021 4:10:26 PM PST by thegagline
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To: DoodleDawg

Can’t believe this is a priority when there are still so many real war crime perpetrators still alive.

Going after what was a young girl who was doing minor secretarial work after 75 years is nonsense.


52 posted on 02/06/2021 4:13:04 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: dinodino
Astonishing that you are a NAZI apologist,

Lets see, I've been accused of being from the DU, I've been accused of being a Democrat troll, I've been accused of being a Russian troll and now you're accusing me of being a NAZI apologist...........LOL!

Using your ignorant mindset, there were 13.6 million German soldiers who served in WW-II, so how long do you think it will take to track them ALL down and charge them for war crimes? And lets not ignore the brown shirt kids who weren't old enough to be forced into the military but saluted Hitler?

LETS HUNT THEM BASTARDS DOWN UNTIL EVERY SINGLE GERMAN ALIVE DURING WW-II IS ARRESTED AND CONVICTED OF WAR CRIMES THEN EXECUTED.......

You ok with that cowboy?

53 posted on 02/06/2021 4:15:37 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: familyop; dinodino

Then their was the so called Spanish loyalists who murdered tens of thousands of catholic priests and nuns during the Red Terror during the Spanish Civil War.

We never hear about those.

We never hear about the millions of Christian Armenians killed by Turks during that ‘holocaust’.

Or the millions of Cambodians killed by Pol Pot in the name of Marxism

But a 90 something secretary we have to persecute.


54 posted on 02/06/2021 4:24:01 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: dinodino
It's not a question of how much she knew because she had no authority: she typed up reports, she didn't plan to harm anyone nor participated in arresting or killing anyone.

By your reasoning, the mailman would be guilty, too.

55 posted on 02/06/2021 4:26:41 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: All

I think they just find some old person to try for war crimes every time the average German thinks importing muslim hordes is a bad idea.
“Oh you care about your country and your people? You don’t want to be a NAZI do you?”
gotta keep the guilt alive for a little bit longer.


56 posted on 02/06/2021 4:27:01 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Assange )
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To: Hot Tabasco

I am 100% onboard with hunting down and prosecuting every last surviving Nazi prison camp staffer. You obviously don’t know any Holocaust survivors, but I do. The people who ran these camps deserve punishment.


57 posted on 02/06/2021 4:29:27 PM PST by dinodino ( )
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To: thegagline

Agreed.


58 posted on 02/06/2021 4:29:58 PM PST by dinodino ( )
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To: dinodino
I am 100% onboard with hunting down and prosecuting every last surviving Nazi prison camp staffer.

Stop moving the goal post bro, you were initially targeting a 17 year old secretary who had nothing to do with the camps. Stop it with your crap!

While we are on the subject, answer my question, why aren't you targeting every German soldier who fought in WW-II?

And to take it a step further, how about condemning the UN and the allied powers who were aware of the holocaust two and a half years before it was finally revealed?

As early as December 1942, the US, UK and Soviet governments were aware that at least two million Jews had been murdered and a further five million were at risk of being killed, and were preparing charges. Despite this, the Allied Powers did very little to try and rescue or provide sanctuary to those in mortal danger.

So take your ignorant self righteous BS somewhere else..............

59 posted on 02/06/2021 4:39:01 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: dinodino

You never answered...WHAT WAS SHE SUPPOSED TO DO?

Not do the job she was assigned?
She would have been hung, shot or thrown into the camp herself.

Who was she supposed to complain to?
The liquidation of Jews and other undesirables was official Reich policy.
Perhaps she could have appealed to the Fuhrer hisownself. Oh wait...IT WAS HIS IDEA TO BEGIN WITH.

The people on the ground at the time dealt with it properly.
Prosecuting this woman now is just virtue signaling.
See you have something in common with the Left after all.

So tell us O Great Babbling Fountain of Virtue...what was she supposed to have done.


60 posted on 02/06/2021 4:39:03 PM PST by oldvirginian (The glass is half empty because the damned thing is cracked and leaking. The 2020 election is proof.)
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