“His death brings the government’s case against Geiser to a close, Roe said.”
Okay, even “Roe” is probably a name that had changed since when?
Although there is no moral or ethical excuse for a person choosing to serve as a concentration/death camp guard (nazi or stalinist), I’ve read several accounts where a lot of these men (boys?); young, naive and or ignorant (nothing like state generated propaganda to keep you stupid) weren’t given much if any choice (I suppose choosing what you want to do during a World War in totalitarian, police state dictatorships is pretty much non-existent). My point is, unless they were witnessed actually killing innocent people, I’d reserve some judgement given the nature of the situation. Having a gun to your head, or a threat to your family’s existent in the face of pure evil, is a truly a tough choice. Most people react “better them than me”, right? Selfish or survival mode, which is it? How many people would actually be willing to die or let members of their family die, in making a stand? Not many, I assure you. Look at history. Food for thought, I guess. One thing is for sure, if that guy had a conscience (if being the operative word), it most likely bothered him his entire life, possibly a just punishment in its own way. I’m still waiting for when the apparatus that created, controlled and executed millions of Russians during the communist rule comes to justice; I guess I’ll just keep waiting. Same for Red China. Peace.
How many Soviet gulag guards have been prosecuted? None?
Just leave the man alone......and shut down this InJustce Department office that spends my tax dollars hunting down men in their late eighties who were forced to do low level tasks in their teens/twenties......meanwhile we brought Werner van Braun over here and paid him millions to send us to the moon.....the hypocrisy is incredible
What was George Soros up to at this point in history?
88 years old? He really was an old Geiser.
There are four types of Germans from that period.
The ones who knew what was happening and did not think anything was wrong with it. This group certainly includes most of the concentration camp guards.
The second group are the true innocents. The Germans that had no idea that what was happening in their name. I suspect this group is rather small. There are just some things that can’t help but be noticed.
The third group is the one that always bothered me the most. This is the group that knew what was happening, knew it was wrong, and did nothing to stop it. This group is probably larger than we know. I can’t find a spot in the bible where God says protect the weak, but only when there is no danger to yourself.
The fourth, very small group, are the Germans who knew what was happening, knew it was wrong, and did whatever they could to stop it. The world needs people like these.
We had relatives at Buchenwald.
According to some looking around, it says Geiser was “forced” into the SS at age 17, in 1942.
From what I learned, the SS did not conscript until very late in the war. Especially not for the SS-Totenkopf; the Waffen-SS needed the warm bodies for the front. The Totenkopf originally were the true believers; the only ones almost as fanatical were the Einsatzgruppen.
As the war drew to its end, they began rotating Waffen-SS who could no longer fight, into the camp guards along with the Auxiliary SS right at the end. So it was pretty much an assumption that ALL of the SS knew of the camps, and not just the Totenkopf.