Posted on 08/29/2009 3:13:41 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
For 30 years, Eli M. Rosenbaum has been hunting Nazi war criminals. Even as the last of them die off, he is not giving up.
“There is still time to bring some of these people to justice, and we ought not fail to do that,” said Mr. Rosenbaum, director of the Office of Special Investigations, who arrived at that Justice Department agency as a summer intern in 1979, the year it was created, and became its chief in 1995.
...“It’s a few years more,” Mr. Rosenbaum said of the hunt for the last Nazis. “I don’t think that you will hear the department soon say: ‘That’s it. These cases are finished.’ ”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This is considered a productive use of taxpayer money?
Quentin Tarantino and his "Inglourious Basterds" can deliver up dead "Natzees," but only the new Norwegian horror film "Dead Snow" can offer undead Nazis.
(excuse the pun)
nope
I find it amusing that barry and mickey keep screaming leave us alone, when they are always in town. They are renting a 26 acre estate (50K a week), with a small golf course, bridel paths, bike paths and other assorted fun things to do......want to be left alone stay on the damn estate.
Sure, if you can keep squeezing out some taxpayers money to fund it and make a good living at it, I guess. Personally I think we have bigger problems, the New age Marxist Nazi's to worry about exposing and bringing to justice.
Let’s finally bring those damn Redcoats to justice!
Only if it keeps them from nosing around at NASA.
A lot probably depends upon the age of the person being asked.
If you were an eighteen-year-old who perpetrated atrocities in 1945, then you would be 82 today. It sounds like a long time ago and far away.
If you were an eight-year-old in 1945 and your family was murdered in the camps, you would be 72 and without living relatives. It might not seem so long ago or so far away.
Without government action to hold people accountable for such crimes, we would have to leave it to the victims. Most consider that a bad idea.
I thought this was about Teddy Kennedy...LOL.
Elie Weisel is a con artist who lost his “foundation” (tax scam) money to Bernie Madoff while Elie slobbers and fawns over Obama.
When I was a teenager my best friend’s father used to tell us war stories about his years in the Waffen SS. Being dumb kids we were amazed at all the medals in his collection as well as the fact that he was wounded 8 times while fighting in Russia. The strange thing was how much he loved this country something we found hard to understand considering it was only a few years previous the US and Germany were enemies.
I often wonder what happened to him but I also wonder how it was that someone who was an SS Man was able to emigrate into this country.
One sad fact was that his son lost an arm in Vietnam.
Yet, the hundreds of millions the Communists slaughtered throughout the last 100 years is hardly looked upon as an atrocity at all. The evils of Communism are far greater then that of the Nazi's, and we teach our children in school (especially college), how great Communism is, and we have never made any effort to bring them to justice for their atrocities. In fact our current President has several on his staff, imagine if they were Nazi's instead.
Why the double standard in how history treats the Nazi's versus the Communists. Why is one ideology given a pass on the murder of hundreds of millions, while the other is still punished 75 years after, while Communism and Communist ideals are still responsible for untold atrocities.
Why are we so afraid to stand up to the Communists the way we did the Nazi's??? Why is it OK for Communists to commit genocide all the while the world looks the other way?
Your story reminded me of this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_T%C3%B6rni
When I first read his story, the USA had not found or identified his remains. He may not have been born here, but I am certainly glad he was brought HOME.
Foreigners killing foreigners. European history.
What about all the American issues related to the Japanese and the communists and the deaths and murders of Americans. When does our American tax dollar funded, endless, timeless, relentless, pursuit of that start?
Do the communists that killed a 100 million people ever pay, when do we start that process?
Who’s left, members of the jungevolk who were about 8yrs old? Stalin knocked off millions more than Hitler, yet no one wants to remember that. No one is prosecuting anyone from the NKVD or the KGB, but then again who remembers Kaytn or the Gullags anymore? 50,000,000 people died in WW II, many innocent families were wiped out. Instead of worrying about some 90+ yr. old nazi, worry about the Arabs claiming that the Jews in Israel, have no historical claim to the land they are on, since it has always belonged to Arabs. That’s something to worry about now! WW II ended 64 yrs ago, its over, its time to worry about Now. We can never forget WW II and the Nazi atrocities, it is on 24/7 on the cable TV.
thanks for that link.
It’s the basic rule of bureaucracies. Once started, they never come to an end. I thought when I saw the headline that the problem was just wasting the taxpayer’s money chasing 90-year old Nazis, when there are Muslim terrorists out there eager to kill us—and any Jews they happen to meet.
But I find that they have tweaked the organization to after other politically incorrect targets:
“Though the agency once pursued war criminals of the Nazis and their Axis allies exclusively, a 2004 law expanded its role to cover modern war criminals, in places like Bosnia and Rwanda.”
Of course. Only the “war criminals” who are designated as such by the NY Times or the UN. Not the ones who are current threats to the U.S. or Israel, but the ones who make liberal blood boil.
Why am I not surprised. Now this can go on forever, and not die with the last Nazi.
Do you believe that the US Justice Dept should have a special unit to find and prosecute every villian responsible for henious crimes and the hundreds and hundreds of millions of deaths due to political and sovereign state actions anywhere in the world during the last what 75 years or so? Are you really serious?
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