Posted on 06/28/2016 7:19:37 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Following the sentencing of 94-year-old Reinhold Hanning to 5 years in prison for his part in the murder of 170,000 Jews in the Holocaust, his lawyers have announced that they will appeal the sentence. The prosecution, representing Holocaust victims, will also appeal the leniency of the sentence.
Hanning was convicted 10 days ago by a court in Detmold, Germany, for aiding the murder of 170,000 inmates at Aushwitz-Birkenau.
The judges in the case found that Hanning worked as a guard in the German extermination camp on Polish soil in the years 1941-1944, while being involved in the deaths of 170,000 camp prisoners, most of them Jews.
Despite his advanced age, the judges decided to send him to prison for 5 years for his crimes. His lawyers are looking to have the sentence reduced or revoked, presumably on account of his age and fragile health.
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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
I would say for an 18 to 20 year old that statement may have some validity in comparison to those in charge. For those who were brutalized or murdered, forgiveness will be a necessary part of their healing either here or in the hereafter. Just saying, not judging one way or the other.
“I’ve been surprised nobody has turned their lawyers loose on corporations or banks that assisted.”
Was there complete justice? Did ALL of the guilty pay? Nope. There is no such thing as perfect justice on this Earth. That’s up to The Big Guy.
“But they were only Jooos!, after all./s”
That’s why I liked when the Israelis went after some of these bastards, and when they went after the perps of the Munich Olympic massacre. SOMEONE has to do something.
It is a shame that George Soros hasn’t been arrested for his part in the Holocaust...
“He was 18-22 during the war. He was in no position of authority, he was just there.”
Here’s my advice to you: go to work today, make a few dollars, and then go out and buy yourself a conscience.
I’ll forgive him as soon as he’s dead. I was not a victim. I am not personally related to any direct victims. But it’s still personal.
But he was so precocious. Already doing shakedowns at the age of 14./s
“So, according to your “logic,” since the trigger man who shot your wife and kid during a bank robbery didn’t plan the heist, and wasn’t in charge of things, he shouldn’t be punished.”
Was this guy a trigger man?
Isn’t it ironic that they can convict a lowly guard in his 90’s and not convict that NAZI collaborator George Soros, a Jew, who turned on his own people.
Those are the only ones left at this point for the nazi hunters to hunt, young kids who were drafted into the war on the wrong side. Pretty soon they’ll be gone too, and then I guess they’ll go after the “Hitler Youth” to justify their continued paychecks?
He’s the worst of the two. Sure he’s rich. But should there be some way of applying RICO asset forfeitures retroactively...
“F-ck him. He had a choice...”
Yes, let’s see he could choose:
a) get shot right now for insubordination/desertion
or
b) slim chance of maybe getting arrested years or decades later
Basically they’re just condemning grunts for not suiciding at this point.
If he’d known anything about rockets, they’d put him in charge of NASA.
“This is how history remember those who were “just following orders”
Same sh%t TSA says at the airport.
I cannot comment on this particular case, as the guard was the equivalent rank of Feldwebel and so might have had some responsibility beyond the 18 year old private. But the article below seems to indicate this has a lot more to do with keeping lawyers employed in a NAZI hunter unit than it does with justice.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-nazi-guard-trial-auschwitz-20160210-story.html
Going after a women who was a radio operator seems kind of........well not justice considering how many real 40 year old NAZIs were let go in the late 1940s.
Also if this becomes an international precedent, I see it being used against us in 50 to 60 years, when American soldiers who were 18 year old guards at Gitmo, Begram, or Abu-Ghraid are tried for “crimes”. Now before folks get their panties in an uproar I am not saying crimes were committed by 20 year old soliders, but there certainly were some questionably actions taken, and how they are viewed in 50 years might be very different from today. Most of us will not be around then, but the idea that 20 year old kids outer fence guards might be prosecuted because of what was done inside a facility by folks who by that time have escaped judgment does not seem fair or just.
That said in this case one doe not know if this sentence is just or not, not enough detail has been published to know one way or another. But something smells about it.
This was an extremely proficient young man; !70,000 deaths under his belt by age 24. People should be brought to justice for their crimes. However, there seems to be something more at work here. Russians directly responsible for the Katyn massacre were still receiving their pensions after the fall of the Soviet Union. Communist mass murder (Russia and China) both surpassed Nazi atrocities. Yet there are no museums dedicated to these crimes, no films and few books about them. American war crimes are totally erased (See the Morgenthau Plan).
Regards from the President of the “Let it go already!” Organization.
Most of the concentration camp guards were in the SS. They made a conscious choice to join, and went through a very rigorous background check and training regimen to get in - all for the privileges.
Now let the SOB pay the price for the privileges. I have no sympathy for him.
the real murderers were the leaders....sure most are probably dead...but then you have the Soros'es of the world who have never been touched by any incriminations....
Go after Soros....
Why is it personal?
Not an attack, but I am curious.
Thanks in advance.
Exactly. I would have made an exception in the case of Demjanjuk, a captured Red Army soldier, who had the “choice” of serving as a Camp guard, or most likely getting shot by the Nazis.
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