I’m not an expert on the evidence, but there is quite a bit of doubt that he was even a Nazi. If he really was a POW in Germany, what is all this about anyway? Israel let him go if I’m not mistaken. Even if that wasn’t true, there are many Nazi’s still alive in Germany that probably did more heinous things than he did as a guard. If he wasn’t Ivan the Terrible, then maybe he was just following orders to stay alive. Anyway, I just think it’s over kill. Even letting him go home, he is now tainted with something that he may not have done. He has spent the last 20 years of his life worrying that he may be executed for something he probably didn’t do.
Those most anxious to pursue him in general seem to be liberals/leftist, apparently as part of their general quest to make “Nazi” a term of evil so egregious none other comes even close.
Which is more than a little silly. The Nazi ideology was perhaps more evil than any other that has gained significant power in human history, but they have a good deal of healthy competition in this field.
What I find odd about the liberal fixation on putting this old man and other old Nazis away is that liberals in general claim prison is, or should be, for rehabilitation, not punishment. That punishment never does any good.
Yet this old dude appears to have done an excellent job of rehabilitating himself, assuming he ever really needed it. AFAIK, nobody has ever claimed he led anything but an exemplary life from his arrival in the country to the time his legal troubles started.
So why the obsession with locking away a 91-year old man? Why should debated actions over a period of a few months more than 60 years ago outweigh a decent life of decades?
I suspect it is because liberals have gotten a great deal of mileage out of equating Nazism with the ultimate in human evil, then equating Nazism with conservatism and rightism.
They’re about to run out of victims to sacrifice on this altar and must take advantage of their few remaining opportunities.
Those most anxious to pursue him in general seem to be liberals/leftist, apparently as part of their general quest to make “Nazi” a term of evil so egregious none other comes even close.
Which is more than a little silly. The Nazi ideology was perhaps more evil than any other that has gained significant power in human history, but they have a good deal of healthy competition in this field.
What I find odd about the liberal fixation on putting this old man and other old Nazis away is that liberals in general claim prison is, or should be, for rehabilitation, not punishment. That punishment never does any good.
Yet this old dude appears to have done an excellent job of rehabilitating himself, assuming he ever really needed it. AFAIK, nobody has ever claimed he led anything but an exemplary life from his arrival in the country to the time his legal troubles started.
So why the obsession with locking away a 91-year old man? Why should debated actions over a period of a few months more than 60 years ago outweigh a decent life of decades?
I suspect it is because liberals have gotten a great deal of mileage out of equating Nazism with the ultimate in human evil, then equating Nazism with conservatism and rightism.
They’re about to run out of victims to sacrifice on this altar and must take advantage of their few remaining opportunities.