Posted on 05/07/2013 12:31:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 93-year-old man who was deported from the U.S. for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities Monday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said.
Hans Lipschis was taken into custody after authorities concluded there was "compelling evidence" he was involved in crimes at Auschwitz while there from 1941 to 1945, prosecutor Claudia Krauth said.
Lipschis has acknowledged being assigned to an SS guard unit at Auschwitz but maintains he only served as a cook and was not involved in any war crimes.
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I’ll take a lethal injection, please....
One thing that struck me as I viewed the museum at Buchenwald was that the typical age of the guard at the camp was ~19. The Nazis purposely recruited young men from lower class groups into the SS guard ranks. Easy to warp their minds.
And then hopefully he will suffer for a few years before he dies.
If you actually knew what you were talking about, you would know Nazis have been hunted and convicted since WW2, right up and including the last few years.
You think because someone has evaded justice for decades that they should be let off?
The conviction rate is high for Nazis, the evidence has been extremely well documented over the years....
This guy was 21 and a nobody camp cook in 1941. I’m not sure this theory that “anyone who was there in any capacity is culpable” hasn’t descended to the level of witch hunt.
Rezept:
Maske anziehen
entleer Zyklon B ins Abflußrohr
zurück stehen
so schnell möglich weglaufen
Maske aufziehen; tief, langsam atmen
(Recipe:
don mask
empty Zyklon B into drain
stand back
run away fast
take off mask; breathe deeply, slowly)
HF
“The only group of criminals in the world that the left doesn’t feel compassion for are Nazis, so we go through the farce of trying lower and lower level and older and older “Nazi criminals.””
Indeed. Soon, they’ll all be gone though, and then just watch the Simon Wiesenthal wannabes start trying to go after people in Israel or the Bush admin for “war crimes”. They certainly aren’t going to fold up shop once the last Nazi is dead, any more than the civil rights movement ended when segregation did.
A camp cook? For the prisoners? That didn’t take much time out of his day.
An important point. At this time, I doubt if anybody who was actually in a decision-making capacity in the camps is still alive. All we have left are people who were young conscripts at the time.
Soon even they will have passed on, and the Nazi hunters will have to find new jobs.
Let me spell it out for you veerrry slowly.
Nazi hunting is a farce when they track down 93 year old men, who may or may not have been cooks, but were almost certainly not movers and shakers or policy makers.
And especially when policymakers and actual killers and torturers for an ideology that killed many times more innocents have nobody at all hunting them, or seeing a need to.
Perhaps a mathematical analogy will help.
Group A killed X people, so group A is bad and everyone who was ever connected with group A must be tracked down and punished in a show trial.
Group B killed at least X*8-12 people, but we’ll just ignore its members. In fact, it continues to be a respectable ideology.
Now does that make any sense?
HE claims he was a cook. Documents say otherwise.
Look, I agree he’s 93, but he should not be rewarded simply because he was really good at being a fugative.
“A camp cook? For the prisoners? That didn’t take much time out of his day.”
You’re right about that. It’s not hard to boil one head of cabbage per twenty gallons of water.
“Group B killed at least X*8-12 people, but we’ll just ignore its members. In fact, it continues to be a respectable ideology.”
We can’t bring commies to justice. Nuclear weapons and all that.
That said, what you are saying is “because lots of killers go free, all killers should go free.”
That’s absurd.
It’s incomplete justice, but something is better than nothing.
According to the article, German law has been changed so just being there is indeed enough. The rationale being that since the only purpose of the camp was murder, being there makes you a murderer.
But we do nothing to George Soros.
Did he volunteer, or was he forced to work there. What if he told his superiors that he did not wish to work there?
I believe there should be some extenuating circumstances considered here, as should have been with Demjanjuk.
Well, go get a prosecution against Soros going.
Let the group that is going after this old guy do that. They seem to know how to go about it. The U.S. government certainly is not interested because he owns many of the occupiers. He is getting old, and hopefully Satan will soon be calling him home.
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