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Former Auschwitz guard dies days before trial
Fox ^ | 4/8/2016

Posted on 04/08/2016 9:38:09 AM PDT by Borges

A former Auschwitz guard has died days before his trial in Germany -- dashing the hopes of survivors who wanted to see justice for their dead parents.

Ernst Tremmel, who was 93, was a guard at the notorious Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War.

He was accused of 1,075 counts of accessory to murder, covering the time he worked at the camp from November 1942 to June 1943.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel
KEYWORDS: auschwitz; deathtonazis; ernsttremmel; germany; holocaust; israel; nazi; theholocaust; worldwareleven; ww2
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1 posted on 04/08/2016 9:38:09 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
A former Auschwitz guard has died days before his trial in Germany -- dashing the hopes of survivors who wanted to see justice for their dead parents.

How so? He ain't getting any deader.

2 posted on 04/08/2016 9:39:01 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Borges

Speedy trial! Just like in the US.


3 posted on 04/08/2016 9:39:33 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Borges

He has now been judged by the Supreme Judge.


4 posted on 04/08/2016 9:42:35 AM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: Borges

I realize its a controversial thing to say and many might take offense, but I can’t really get all wound up about prosecuting a 90+ year old who was a 20 year old nobody private for what went on at one of these camps.


5 posted on 04/08/2016 9:42:40 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Borges

So this is what German law enforcement is doing instead of prosecuting the Middle Eastern “migrants” who are going around molesting kids and raping women.


6 posted on 04/08/2016 9:43:37 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Borges

His case went directly to a much higher Court.


7 posted on 04/08/2016 9:46:06 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: skeeter

Ah the statute of limitations on murders ... just like what abortionists(women and doctors alike) want.


8 posted on 04/08/2016 9:47:47 AM PDT by sagar (3 way race; cranky populist - Trump/Sanders, establishment - Hillary/Roobio, conservative - Cruz!)
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To: skeeter
I realize its a controversial thing to say and many might take offense, but I can’t really get all wound up about prosecuting a 90+ year old who was a 20 year old nobody private for what went on at one of these camps.

There are people whose jobs depend on prosecuting WWII war criminals, so such must be found.

The dilemma for them now is to close the project ... or charge the very last WWII criminal alive: George Soros.

9 posted on 04/08/2016 9:48:55 AM PDT by mvonfr
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To: sagar
Why wasn't anyone associated with the camps prosecuted immediately following the war? Was the act of mass murder taken more lightly then than it is now?

These contemporary prosecutions are more political than anything else, IMO.

10 posted on 04/08/2016 9:51:03 AM PDT by skeeter
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. . . or charge the very last WWII criminal alive: George Soros.
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If only!


11 posted on 04/08/2016 9:51:15 AM PDT by punknpuss
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To: skeeter

they could not find many of them- they hid their identities


12 posted on 04/08/2016 9:52:57 AM PDT by Mr. K
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

+ 100


13 posted on 04/08/2016 9:54:02 AM PDT by mkjessup (We Don't Know. Where Heidi Went. But She Won't Be Married. To The President. Burma Shave)
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To: skeeter

Amen——What would some or all of these accusers have done back then-—obey your orders while in the military or be shot or go to a concentration camp?-—stupid nonsense of spending money on trials of old men just to ‘get even’-——cn’t bring the dead back to life in any event-—Vengeance shall be Mine, saith the Lord——


14 posted on 04/08/2016 9:54:32 AM PDT by cmomm44
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To: Borges

“dashing the hopes of survivors who wanted to see justice for their dead parents”

Huh? What’s the difference if a 93 year old is hanged or dies in his bed? He’s still just as dead.


15 posted on 04/08/2016 9:54:36 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Borges
Cheated the hangman just like Hermann Göring ... only much, much slower.
16 posted on 04/08/2016 9:54:44 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (An orange jumpsuit is the new black pantsuit.)
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To: Still Thinking
A trial and conviction, then death, would mean some closure for the victims and their families.
When a war criminal dies of old age before trial, he essentially got away with murder.

17 posted on 04/08/2016 9:54:48 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: skeeter

The Allies executed over 74,000 German war criminals after the war,and even with that many still still escaped


18 posted on 04/08/2016 9:55:05 AM PDT by Paddyboy (Roma Omnia Vincit)
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To: Still Thinking

Kinda doesn’t sound like they think a lot about God.


19 posted on 04/08/2016 9:55:43 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Mr. K

They prosecuted the people they could prove were responsible. I dont think anyone would have considered the suggestion that any soldier associated with the camp in any capacity be prosecuted and charged with murder a serious proposal.


20 posted on 04/08/2016 9:56:01 AM PDT by skeeter
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