Posted on 10/18/2019 1:17:49 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Not one bit
Stutthof was a bad place. Most of the perpetrators were caught and hanged at Biskupia Gorka. Look up Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Ewa Paradeis, etc. You will see how it was done also. Short-drop hanging for all of them. Not a good way to go.
I cannot comprehend what punishing this poor old man can accomplish while Daimler-Benz, Krupp, and Hugo Boss rake in billions.
How Albert Speer didn’t hang with the rest of the criminals was beyond me.
“I really can not understand the madness of WWII and the insanity of the lack of humanity at the time.”
It lives in each and every one of us. Though we rarely, if ever, admit it. We all have a monster inside.
All of us.
L
“It lives in each and every one of us. Though we rarely, if ever, admit it. We all have a monster inside.”
I’ve been an avid student of history my whole life (my college degree is in History); and I’ve said for many, many years that savagery and barbarism are mankind’s natural inclination, and that peace and tranquility are aberrations. So sad; so very, very sad.
I guess I’m not one of those “glass half full” kind of guys.
No. Soros has too much money. The Wiesenthal Center and their ilk only go after those who are too old, sick and poor to defend themselves.
“I guess I’m not one of those “glass half full” kind of guys.”
You have a good understanding of human nature, that’s all. It’s a scary fact that the veneer of “civilization” can be miles and miles miles wide but it’s never more than about half an inch deep. And it doesn’t take much to strip it away.
On that note I bid you a pleasant day. Find some beauty in it.
Best,
L
Someone once said that civilization is just a thin crust over a bubbling caldron of barbarism.
As for your sentiment about having a pleasant day, thanks. But all my days are pleasant because of my wife and my dog, and a small group of family and good friends.
He would have been a 19 year old private in 1945.
Labeling him responsible for 5,000 murders is a bit of a stretch.
Folks, one can easily sit in your chair and pass judgement. But what would we do in the situation?
His life is on the line also. If he stood up and said it was wrong, he would have been sent to the Russian front. Wouldn’t have changed a thing, except he wouldn’t be on trial now.
Pray that you and I are never put in the situation, But it is possible that it is coming..........................
Quite right. But labeling him a blameless innocent is equally implausible. It all comes down to what specific acts he did when he had a choice and would not be hazarding his life. And if he truly is sorry, he would make a clean breast of it on the record now. But if he were truly sorry, he wouldn’t have waited ‘til somebody caught him when he was ninety. He should have come forward long ago. So I don’t know what to make of him. I wish the judge luck in figuring it out.
A 17 year old draftee.
How much control could he have?
“and the insanity of the lack of humanity at the time”
At some point in the future, will society think the same way about the cold-blooded gleeful wanton murder of unborn children?
My parents were born a year after this man, my dad was in the Navy, preparing for the invasion of Japan in 1945.
The victors write the history, that's why our internment camps for the Japanese have been conveniently forgotten IMO, except for the legislation passed decades ago. I asked my mom about it on several occasions, she responded she never knew about it. I finally gave up on it.
Korematsu v. US is a black mark on SCOTUS, ranks up there with Dred Scott. Rarely mentioned that the internment plan was hatched under FDR.
I understand Germany's attempt to bring justice to the victims, but IMO the justice is far too delayed to have much value.
O/T, I visited Dachau and Flossenburg twice each during my tour in Germany. Although it's been nearly 40 years since I was there, I still remember the evil that permeated by sites.
There is nothing new under the sun. We could be there in a heartbeat and with new technology it could make the Holocaust look like child's play. "Humanity" is no different today, than during WWII.
Excellent post!
Nobody got drafted into the SS. They recruited from the best of the Wehrmacht. He could have declined the invitation to be promoted. But that doesn’t make him a criminal, per se. There’s a totality of circumstances that must be examined.
Antifa is the Freikorps, Brown Shirts, SA (precursor to the SS) all rolled up into one motley group.
They’re a quasi-military group supporting a totalitarian form of government that eliminates rivals through violence, intimidation and, eventually, murder.
They’re more than a crazy bunch of kids.
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