I honestly don’t get the point of going after ageing camp guards well into their 90s. War crimes were originally meant for policymakers and higher ups, not low level soldiers and guards.
The Soviets and Chicoms slaughtered millions more people than Hitler did in their gulags, how come no concerted efforts are made to go after their ageing camp guards and personnel?
Especially after Ukrainians, who faced a choice of either getting shot by the Soviets, or getting shot by the Nazis.
They were on the winning side. Only losers get hanged.
“...how come no concerted efforts are made to go after their ageing camp guards and personnel...”
Because the National Socialists (Nazis) are the BAD socialists.
The International Socialists - Soviets, ChiComs, Democrats - they’re the GOOD socialists!!!
Simple! See?
I feel the same way, and I say that as someone whose paternal grandparents were Auscwitz survivors. Even if they found my grandparents’ prison guards at 90 years of age I would say that going after them at this point is not even close to being among the highest of national or global priorities.
I’ve never understood the whole thing. Not excusing it, not denying it, just saying there’s more to this story than meets the eye.
As far as I’m concerned there has never been a solid public explanation offered as to why the Holocaust occurred. The Germans just woke up one morning and said “F it, let’s kill 10-12 million people”? It doesn’t make sense. You have to be really really (really) pissed off to scale up for that kind of wholesale slaughter. Nothing I’ve read or seen offers an explanation for the scale and intensity of what occurred.