Posted on 12/04/2024 8:27:00 AM PST by RandFan
A 100-year-old concentration camp guard dubbed last Nazi should stand trial accused of murdering 3,300 Holocaust victims, the German high court has ruled.
Gregor Formanek had successfully appealed a decision to put him on trial for the "cruel and treacherous killing" of victims at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, back in May. The Hanau Regional Court excused him from prosecution, based on medical evidence declaring that he had a "permanent incapacity to stand trial".
But now the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court has overturned that decision and sent the case back to Hanau for another hearing. This means that Formanek is likely to face trial early in 2025.
Born in Romania, Formanek was the son of a German-speaking master tailor and joined the SS in July 1943 as a member of the notorious Sachsenhausen battalion.
Set up in 1936, the camp was seen as a model training ground for Hitler's mass extermination of Jews. More than 200,000 prisoners passed through Sachsenhausen, notorious for its gas chambers and horrifying medical experiments.
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Those were scientists and engineers.
Not murderous death camp guards.
Many were forced to join the party, In order to keep their jobs.
The average life expectancy of a hundred year old person is about two years.
This is laughable virtue signaling.
They should go back to locking up grandmas for criticizing trans people.
:-)
Of course not. The gulags were run by "good" socialists. The concentration camps were run by "bad" socialists. Only a socialist would support a distinction like that.
"We" go to the ends of the Earth to "denazify" Germany.
Nobody ever attempted to "decommunize" Russia ... and it shows.
Soros turned in his own jewish people to the Nazis.
In return for the favor, he received their wealth and belongings.
Mossad sould have taken the SOB out years ago.
I note the distinction between him and John Demjanjuk, who was a captured Red Army soldier, and mostly likely faced death at the hands of the Nazis if he didn’t become a guard.
Problem is Russia was never “de-czarized”.
(Laughs in Werner Von Braun)
Valid point. Lenin in particular, and The Party in general, took the place of the Czar and the nobility.
Those “innocent” science and engineers used slave labor to get their tasks done.
If the prisoners got maimed or killed during dangerous experiments, oh well....
Many were hard core Nazis as well.
If you hunt around on the web you can find a bunch of smiling Paperclip folks in New Mexico hanging out in front of a Nazi symbol on a building in the late 1940s.
OSS and then CIA “cleaned up” their war history—that was part of the operation.
There's always Trump, so says the media.
The Mossad certainly could have eliminated him but, so far, they haven’t. Why, I wonder...
Yeah ... forgot about that.
Trump is literally hitler, and we who voted for him are all fascists. But if we’re all fascists, shouldn’t Trump be literally mussolini?
What a stupid comment.
Germany's "current political climate" is extreme "anti-racism."
Africans and Muslims can murder as many Germans as they want. But Germany comes down hard on all white racists, from actual Nazis to mean Facebook posts.
Tens of millions of Americans didn't even have the courage to disobey orders to wear Covid masks, lest someone berate them in public.
Time to dig up the dead ones and put them on trial, dig up the witnesses too. Meanwhile, we abort our own children.
Hitler is in your own heart, hypocrites!
You'd be surprised how many did NOT and would NOT cave. The executioners may find that they become the hunted.
“Many were forced to join the party, In order to keep their jobs.”
Only a small minority of the Paperclip scientists were involved in war crimes. The men that ran the Dora-Mittelbau slave labor camp, so the original post was an exaggeration.
Soros was 14 when Germany surrendered, where did he keep all that confiscated wealth and belongings?
Anti-racism is also racism, but with a different target. As I understand it, Islamic Jew-haters are quite welcome in Germany today. More than Jews. Hitler and the Nazis were allies with Muslim Jew-haters as well. I don’t see the political climate as being too much different than under the Nazis.
“..where did he keep all that confiscated wealth and belongings?...”
You’d have to ask him. He didn’t get wealthy by accident.
He was born in 1930, and yes, he was a young teenager...an evil one. Still is.
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