He would have been a 19 year old private in 1945.
Labeling him responsible for 5,000 murders is a bit of a stretch.
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.