Liberal dogma holds that the purpose of imprisonment is to rehabilitate the criminal.
Demjanjuk and this guy apparently led more or less blameless lives for decades after their WWII service. So it is not unreasonable to assume they had rehabilitated themselves.
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.”
I suspect this is similar in motivation to the multiple hoax hate crimes we see. If your worldview is based on thinking or yourself as facing off bravely against evil, then you have to find some evil to face off against. Even if you have to invent it, or it’s a 93 year old ex-cook.
Meanwhile, with possible exception of some Khmer Rouge, none of the commies guilty of murdering at least 8x as many innocents as the Nazis are being put on trial.
Well, the reason is the Nazis lost their war.
The Chinese Commies and Soviets are really very much in power.
Maybe they led exemplary lives because there was no huge Nazi Party to join. Or maybe they were mainly concerned with saving their own putrid lives. I can’t believe you are calling Nazi hunting a farce.
And for those who are saying “give it a rest,” Never Again.
“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.