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.
“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.”
You will have a very long wait. An eternity? Perhaps.
The really indisputable war criminals (on the losing side) are either dead, in prison, or were protected from prosecution by various governments so they can’t be touched. So, there is nothing left but these “small fry” to go after, and almost all of them can say they were forced into doing what they did. I wouldn’t doubt that a great many of them really were. However, they are the only ones left, so that is who the Nazi hunters are going to hunt.
Nobody wants to even risk being seen as sympathetic to a potential Nazi, so nobody is going to go out of their way to put a stop to the pointless exercise. I suppose it will continue until everyone from that era passes away, which should be pretty soon.