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Former SS Auschwitz guard apologizes at trial
The Associated Press ^ | April 29, 2016 | David Rising

Posted on 04/29/2016 5:46:09 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

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To: jalisco555

And you have proof of this

From a regime that hanged political prisoners with piano wire and used the garrote

In your view they would just be all nice if a soldier refused orders to kill?


121 posted on 04/29/2016 4:06:10 PM PDT by wardaddy (gonna need a lot of rope and lamposts and gibbets after this primary season.....)
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To: Hot Tabasco

“Easy to say from the comfort of your warm house and keyboard.........”

Possibly true although I have meditated on this issue since I was a teenager or younger and I am now 68. I was raised in the old school Catholic tradition and grew up learning about the martyrs. I know I would never deny my faith. The movie, Sophie’s Choice still makes me slightly crazy because of course, the only choice Sophie had was to not choose. I profoundly believe that death is not the worst thing that there is. And I have had loses and pain.


122 posted on 04/29/2016 4:19:22 PM PDT by Mercat (Boredom is a problem on the inside. And happiness, too, is an inside job.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Smart & thoughtful reply. My former neighbor, who moved to the States after WW2, was in the “Hitler Youth” organization...not because he wanted to be, but because if he was not a member things like getting into a university, or getting a good job, was almost impossible.

He despised it, but he wanted to survive, and not bring trouble to his family. If I remember the former German Pope Benedict was a member also.


123 posted on 04/29/2016 4:25:40 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Mercat
I profoundly believe that death is not the worst thing that there is.

Being a guard in a watch tower at Auschwitz, would you risk your life in an attempt to desert at the threat of possible execution with the result of never seeing your family again or would you follow orders and maintain your post?

It's not a fair question because neither you nor I nor anyone else here have ever been put into such a position. So who are we to judge?

124 posted on 04/29/2016 4:28:16 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Mercat
As a side note, he has had to live with his actions of being on the losing side of a world war for his entire life. I think he has paid his penance.

Any attempt to prosecute him for alleged war crimes does nothing to alleviate the horrors of the death camps and merely serves to keep the wounds open............

125 posted on 04/29/2016 4:36:36 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

He would probably at the age of 94 welcome death. I hope he has made his peace with God.


126 posted on 04/29/2016 4:38:04 PM PDT by Mercat (Boredom is a problem on the inside. And happiness, too, is an inside job.)
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