Posted on 08/29/2009 3:13:41 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
For 30 years, Eli M. Rosenbaum has been hunting Nazi war criminals. Even as the last of them die off, he is not giving up.
“There is still time to bring some of these people to justice, and we ought not fail to do that,” said Mr. Rosenbaum, director of the Office of Special Investigations, who arrived at that Justice Department agency as a summer intern in 1979, the year it was created, and became its chief in 1995.
...“It’s a few years more,” Mr. Rosenbaum said of the hunt for the last Nazis. “I don’t think that you will hear the department soon say: ‘That’s it. These cases are finished.’ ”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This is considered a productive use of taxpayer money?
Quentin Tarantino and his "Inglourious Basterds" can deliver up dead "Natzees," but only the new Norwegian horror film "Dead Snow" can offer undead Nazis.
(excuse the pun)
nope
I find it amusing that barry and mickey keep screaming leave us alone, when they are always in town. They are renting a 26 acre estate (50K a week), with a small golf course, bridel paths, bike paths and other assorted fun things to do......want to be left alone stay on the damn estate.
Sure, if you can keep squeezing out some taxpayers money to fund it and make a good living at it, I guess. Personally I think we have bigger problems, the New age Marxist Nazi's to worry about exposing and bringing to justice.
Let’s finally bring those damn Redcoats to justice!
Only if it keeps them from nosing around at NASA.
A lot probably depends upon the age of the person being asked.
If you were an eighteen-year-old who perpetrated atrocities in 1945, then you would be 82 today. It sounds like a long time ago and far away.
If you were an eight-year-old in 1945 and your family was murdered in the camps, you would be 72 and without living relatives. It might not seem so long ago or so far away.
Without government action to hold people accountable for such crimes, we would have to leave it to the victims. Most consider that a bad idea.
I thought this was about Teddy Kennedy...LOL.
Elie Weisel is a con artist who lost his “foundation” (tax scam) money to Bernie Madoff while Elie slobbers and fawns over Obama.
When I was a teenager my best friend’s father used to tell us war stories about his years in the Waffen SS. Being dumb kids we were amazed at all the medals in his collection as well as the fact that he was wounded 8 times while fighting in Russia. The strange thing was how much he loved this country something we found hard to understand considering it was only a few years previous the US and Germany were enemies.
I often wonder what happened to him but I also wonder how it was that someone who was an SS Man was able to emigrate into this country.
One sad fact was that his son lost an arm in Vietnam.
Yet, the hundreds of millions the Communists slaughtered throughout the last 100 years is hardly looked upon as an atrocity at all. The evils of Communism are far greater then that of the Nazi's, and we teach our children in school (especially college), how great Communism is, and we have never made any effort to bring them to justice for their atrocities. In fact our current President has several on his staff, imagine if they were Nazi's instead.
Why the double standard in how history treats the Nazi's versus the Communists. Why is one ideology given a pass on the murder of hundreds of millions, while the other is still punished 75 years after, while Communism and Communist ideals are still responsible for untold atrocities.
Why are we so afraid to stand up to the Communists the way we did the Nazi's??? Why is it OK for Communists to commit genocide all the while the world looks the other way?
Your story reminded me of this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_T%C3%B6rni
When I first read his story, the USA had not found or identified his remains. He may not have been born here, but I am certainly glad he was brought HOME.
Foreigners killing foreigners. European history.
What about all the American issues related to the Japanese and the communists and the deaths and murders of Americans. When does our American tax dollar funded, endless, timeless, relentless, pursuit of that start?
Do the communists that killed a 100 million people ever pay, when do we start that process?
Who’s left, members of the jungevolk who were about 8yrs old? Stalin knocked off millions more than Hitler, yet no one wants to remember that. No one is prosecuting anyone from the NKVD or the KGB, but then again who remembers Kaytn or the Gullags anymore? 50,000,000 people died in WW II, many innocent families were wiped out. Instead of worrying about some 90+ yr. old nazi, worry about the Arabs claiming that the Jews in Israel, have no historical claim to the land they are on, since it has always belonged to Arabs. That’s something to worry about now! WW II ended 64 yrs ago, its over, its time to worry about Now. We can never forget WW II and the Nazi atrocities, it is on 24/7 on the cable TV.
thanks for that link.
It’s the basic rule of bureaucracies. Once started, they never come to an end. I thought when I saw the headline that the problem was just wasting the taxpayer’s money chasing 90-year old Nazis, when there are Muslim terrorists out there eager to kill us—and any Jews they happen to meet.
But I find that they have tweaked the organization to after other politically incorrect targets:
“Though the agency once pursued war criminals of the Nazis and their Axis allies exclusively, a 2004 law expanded its role to cover modern war criminals, in places like Bosnia and Rwanda.”
Of course. Only the “war criminals” who are designated as such by the NY Times or the UN. Not the ones who are current threats to the U.S. or Israel, but the ones who make liberal blood boil.
Why am I not surprised. Now this can go on forever, and not die with the last Nazi.
Do you believe that the US Justice Dept should have a special unit to find and prosecute every villian responsible for henious crimes and the hundreds and hundreds of millions of deaths due to political and sovereign state actions anywhere in the world during the last what 75 years or so? Are you really serious?
The Muslims are the Nazis of the twenty-first century.
I think it is time for these Nazi Hunters to give it up. All of them are dead or in their 90s.
And the Communists are still the Communists , I guess.
I often wonder what happened to him but I also wonder how it was that someone who was an SS Man was able to emigrate into this country.
The Waffen SS recruited (and conscripted) a lot of foreigners. Was he German?
"Generally the Waffen-SS was not directly involved in the Holocaust, as the separately organised Allgemeine SS was responsible for the death camps, ..." - Wikipedia
Rxcellent points and I agree completely.
Except for your numbers. Total killed by commies isn’t much over 100M. It’s not “hundreds of millions.”
Of course it’s still something like 8 to 10 times the roughly 12M killed by the Nazis.
The old Nazi’s may be dying off, but we’re growing a whole new crop right here in America.
The new ones are in the white house. Time to fire it up again.
The problem with your suggestion is that you can't add numbers up to equate the magnitude of warfare.
For example, if you add up the numbers of US soldiers of WW1+WW2+Korea+Vietnam it is less than the total number of lives (military and civilian) lost during the US Civil War.
Do you see the problem?
They should be looking for the new ones in Pakistan and many other Islamic countries.
I wasn’t the one who brought up the numerical comparison between the number killed by commies vs. nazis.
While it is true one cannot create a purely numerical scale of evil, it is still relevant that reds killed roughly 10x as many innocent people as browns.
To be perfectly fair, the nazis were working on a very short time schedule. Almost all of the killing took place after war had started and the vast majority during and after 42. So they had to kill a whole bunch of people in just a few years.
The commies had the luxury of decades to comnplete their murderous work.
If the nazis had won the war and been able to fully implement their racial ideology, it is difficult to argue that their toll wouldn’t have indeed been in the “hundreds of millions.”
ansel12 said: "Foreigners killing foreigners. "
No, not every villian. No, not foreigners killing foreigners.
But my uncle spent a year and a half in a German POW camp after being shot out of the sky. If it was worth his sacrifice and the even greater sacrifice of many Americans, then it is worth prosecuting every identifiable criminal who brought about that War.
It is also worth giving at least some thought to stopping such dictatorships from gaining the power to repeat the past.
If this particular office is shut down ten years from now, it won't bother me a bit. But it will bother me if the US becomes so isolationist that mass murder is permitted to be practiced without objection.
There's a very practical explanation for that.
My father was a soldier in 1943. While viewing a war-poster showing a smiling Russian soldier with has arm wrapped around a U.S. soldier, my father said, "I bet he has a knife in that hand".
My father was called before his commanding officer and reprimanded for making a disparaging comment about our Russian allies.
Stalin attempted to co-exist with Hitler and paid a price when Hitler suddenly attacked. As a result, the Russians lost millions of soldiers on the Eastern Front while the U.S. was still stock-piling jeeps and Spam in preparation for the D-Day landing. The alliance with Russia saved an unknowable number of U.S. lives.
That, I believe, is why communism gets almost a free ride. That and the fact that our main-stream-media is dominated by communists.
European history is one thing and foreigners killing foreigners is one thing.
When do we start going after the communists that murdered 100 million people including thousands of Americans, my father was fighting Japs during his service from 1939 to 1945, when do we start searching for the Japanese war criminals that dissected, tortured and did biological experiments on American GIs, or the ones that at the end of the war were pouring gasoline and lighting up American POWs before they could be freed?
My two brothers and me and my step brother all volunteered for military service to protect us from the bloodiest killers in history, the communists but when do the trials start for the communists that tortured and murdered our fellow servicemen and countless others.
Let the Europeans deal with their stuff until we can get started on ours. Your choice to do nothing, to ignore it all except for some foreigners in Europe is unexplainable.
You make is sound like you are all suited-up and waiting for the troop transport to take you to the front.
I think that some of the other posters who expressed concerns about our present administration or the communism which is Obamacare perhaps have the right target.
The people who you would prosecute have been and are being protected by the media and people like the present administration. If they are successful, the suffering and death experienced in all those foreign lands will become a reality here. I don't think you will make any progress in prosecuting those you have identified until you defeat the ones I have identified.
Are you prepared to take up arms today against the national socialists in our midst?
My postings were intended to be an explanation for why less has been done, not a justification. How do you propose we proceed?
Shift taxpayer money to going after people that have murdered and tortured Americans in WWII and since, let the Europeans deal with their own personal histories.
Yes they are.
But the islamic terrorists have loads of money. Their best friends are in the White House and are dismantling our capability to fight the islamic pigs daily.
When I was a teenager my best friend’s father used to tell us war stories about his years in the Waffen SS. ... The strange thing was how much he loved this country something we found hard to understand considering it was only a few years previous the US and Germany were enemies. ...
I often wonder what happened to him but I also wonder how it was that someone who was an SS Man was able to emigrate into this country.
The Waffen SS recruited (and conscripted) a lot of foreigners. Was he German?
He was a German from, if memory serves me right, East Prussia. I always found it surprising that even German soldiers who had been wounded multiple times were returned to fight again and again although from what I heard the German losses on the Eastern front were so horrendous there was propably little choice
Russians lost millions of soldiers on the Eastern Front while the U.S. was still stock-piling jeeps and Spam in preparation for the D-Day landing ................................. But while it was going on, we were sending Sherman tanks, Studebaker trucks, locomotives, B 25s, P 39s, P 40’s tons of ammo, communication equipment, uniforms, et.al. to Russia. The Arsenal of Democracy saved us from the depression while we prepared to enter the battle. Without our supplies to the USSR things may have turned out differently. What we did in WW II in regard to putting a cap on any news on the Russian atrocities, was at the time in our interest but not condoned . However we are now 64 years later and those that committed those atrocities are totally forgotten. Why, was it an internal matter? Where is the outrage? Why are they not hunted down right to the last guards at the gulags, the last executioner at Kaytn? Surely there are some 80+ yr old culprits still running around freely who were participants under Stalin’s rule. More double standard thinking I guess.
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