"At this point, what difference does it make"?
Posted on 01/06/2014 7:24:35 AM PST by Olog-hai
The lawyer for a 92-year-old former Waffen SS member charged with killing a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944 asked a German court Monday to find his client not guilty.
Dutch-born Siert Bruins, now a German citizen, went on trial in September in the western city of Hagen. He is accused of killing resistance fighter Aldert Klaas Dijkema in September 1944 in Appingedam, near the German border in the northern Netherlands. …
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"At this point, what difference does it make"?
When you have an evil bastard from the SS. He is WAY late to his dirt nap and final reckoning!
Just a little reality, not every member of the SS was a Hitler adoring monster. My Godfather was made a member of the SS in Hungary during the war, not to have any power or real authority but to throw a bone to Hungarian military. And obviously he was a monster since he was allowed to come to America and become a citizen.
A small edit and now I have to wonder what you think of the people in Afghanistan and Iraq who helped the US with the suppression of the 'freedom fighters' in their countries?
I say this because in the context of the times a number of people in occupied Europe saw the Nazis as rescuing them from communism. History bears them out that as bad the Nazis were, the communists were worse.
If this guy was in the Waffen SS, he is a criminal.
> Dutch-born Siert Bruins, now a German citizen, went on trial in September in the western city of Hagen. He is accused of killing resistance fighter Aldert Klaas Dijkema in September 1944 in Appingedam, near the German border in the northern Netherlands.
Thanks Olog-hai.
Yeah, I’ll bet he told immigration all about being in the SS, huh? (Since it was only because they were throwing a bone to Hungary - where they USED to have all those pesky Jews and Gypsies.)
You know what you learn in books, which over the years has been shown to be a lot of crapola, since I have family that lived through the destruction of their country by the Germans, then the Russians and finally the liberating Americans. My Grandfather escaped the Russians conscription to work camps at the last minute and my Mother helped care for the Jews after the war, so I think I will go with knowledge of the people who lived through it rather give credence to your opinions. And as for my Godfather, do you really believe that the government did not know about everyone that was in the military? Of course you know better!
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