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To: af_vet_1981
it's complicated and we need not generalize as we have an actual case where the Jewish victim/survivor testified he returned for revenge and changed his mind so as not to be like his persecutors. He wrote "God pricked my conscience."

And it was his call, of course. I just think he made the wrong one. I understand his reasoning, but I think his circumstances (and really, could they be any more traumatic?) led him to choose avoidance rather than justice. He calls it God's influence, and perhaps it was. However I believe it was the result of the effects of a cynical ploy by a Nazi enemy to try to save her own life by holding a baby and hiding behind per presumption that he would hold a belief in the sanctity of motherhood. So he saw what he wanted to see - a mother. I see a wolf in sheep's clothing who escaped not revenge, but justice.

52 posted on 11/11/2014 3:38:13 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker
I see a wolf in sheep's clothing who escaped not revenge, but justice.

I don't think she escaped, and she certainly won't escape justice after her death. What is tragic is the senselessness of all the evil, and how easily it spreads. This is always a challenge for those who are persecuted, that they not become like their persecutors. I had a debate with someone who I think is no longer posting, not a regular. His view was that Nuremberg trials were victor's justice and no justice at all. I, of course, vehemently disagreed.

55 posted on 11/11/2014 4:12:34 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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