Germany launches Nazi war crimes probe against Philadelphia man

Fox News ^ | 2012 Sept 23 | AP

[nicmarlo]

BERLIN – Germany has launched a war crimes investigation against an 87-year-old Philadelphia man it accuses of serving as an SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp, The Associated Press has learned, following years of failed U.S. Justice Department efforts to have the man stripped of his American citizenship and deported.

Johann "Hans" Breyer, a retired toolmaker, admits he was a guard at Auschwitz during World War II, but told the AP he was stationed outside the facility and had nothing to do with the wholesale slaughter of some 1.5 million Jews and others behind the gates.

The special German office that investigates Nazi war crimes has recommended that prosecutors charge him with accessory to murder and extradite him to Germany for trial on suspicion of involvement in the killing of at least 344,000 Jews at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in occupied Poland.

The AP also has obtained documents that raise doubts about Breyer's testimony about the timing of his departure from Auschwitz.

[nicmarlo]

Link posted to these and other picks isn't working; here's the link.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/23/v-gallery_detail_list/3016645/ap-exclusive-philadelphia-man.html

[nicmarlo]

Why do you think they've got the FEMA camps around the country? Obama's issued an executive order that citizens can be arrested without cause? A judge has upheld that ruling (I believe)? The weather service, et al, is loaded up / ordering up, ammo, including those the UN considers illegal in any war, i.e., hollow point? Why there's an FBI directive to look into Americans purchasing guns and survivor supplies?

I say it's certainly not because of any fear of muslim terrorists coming into our country (we've left the border wide open for them an all other illegals). It's obviously not to protect Americans from illegals, Obama's justice department is suing states which are trying to do so. It's not for target practice.

The planned enemy, 'war criminals,' is us. And we are millions.

[South Dakota]

Demoncrats are going in a different direction. We are not. We need to be put into camps to be indoctrinated in the demoncrat way

[nicmarlo]

I don’t doubt that whatsoever. It’s a matter of when, not if.

[paddles]

"If you can make them believe absurdities, you can make them commit atrocities."

--Voltaire

[Verginius Rufus]

I remember reading that at some point in the 1960s the Germans decided not to pursue any more cases against Germans for their participation in the Holocaust. So the cases since then have been against people like Demjanjuk who was Ukrainian. In Breyer’s case maybe the fact that he’s an ethnic German from Slovakia, not from Germany, may make the difference—or the fact that he had left and gone to America before the amnesty was proclaimed.