[Still Thinking]

A former Auschwitz guard has died days before his trial in Germany -- dashing the hopes of survivors who wanted to see justice for their dead parents.

How so? He ain't getting any deader.

[Cboldt]

Speedy trial! Just like in the US.

[Smittie]

He has now been judged by the Supreme Judge.

[skeeter]

I realize its a controversial thing to say and many might take offense, but I can’t really get all wound up about prosecuting a 90+ year old who was a 20 year old nobody private for what went on at one of these camps.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

So this is what German law enforcement is doing instead of prosecuting the Middle Eastern “migrants” who are going around molesting kids and raping women.

[Buckeye McFrog]

His case went directly to a much higher Court.

[Boogieman]

“dashing the hopes of survivors who wanted to see justice for their dead parents”

Huh? What’s the difference if a 93 year old is hanged or dies in his bed? He’s still just as dead.

[KarlInOhio]

Cheated the hangman just like Hermann Göring ... only much, much slower.

[Kenton]

They should dig him up and hang his body in a cage at the entrance into Auschwitz. Death to Nazis and Commies.

[Cyman]

Can't get even a smidgen of outrage over this man's death. If you have a chance look up the case of John Demjanjuk a Cleveland area “ war criminal” and his epochal battle though the justice system of the USA , Israel and Germany. From witnesses testifying that yes this is Ivan the Terrible( 15 years after testifying that ANOTHER man was Ivan) to the blatant and criminal behavior of the FBI agents that had exculpatory evidence from the Russians 20 years before John's death AND ADMITTEDLY hid it from his attorneys. BTW those agents were never prosecuted.

[Starstruck]

If you look at the US oaths of enlisted men and officers you will find them totally different. Enlisted men swear to obey orders of their superior officers. Officers swear to defend the Constitution but there is nothing about obeying superior officers. Why do you suppose this is?

[Billthedrill]

These things are never easy and straightforward. No one was "drafted" into concentration camp duty, that function was filled by the Waffen SS. But not all of those units participated. One such was detailed in Johann Voss's Black Edelweiss, a mountain division that never left Finland until just before the end of the war. The author relates his shock at how they were treated by the Belgians when finally the went to a POW camp and why the inmates made him exchange his tunic for an ordinary Wehrmacht tunic immediately upon arrival. Then he was assigned as a translator to the Nuremberg prosecution committee and he found out from raw evidence he had to process. What it was like for him to learn that after denial made for a very interesting book.

Others were strictly war fighters but could be assigned to the camps at any time. When the U.S. troops liberated the horror show that was Dachau they lined up the SS men they had at hand against a wall and shot the lot of them without a trial, a rather understandable reaction given the boxcars of corpses they had just seen. Unfortunately those men weren't the guards responsible. Those guards had fled the scene a day before leaving the new arrivals there to hold the bag.

The real problem was that relatively few of the ones truly responsible were punished. Certain high-profile culprits such as Rudolf Hoess and Hans Frank were, but Nikolaus Wachsmann estimates that only about 15% of the commandants and guards who actually committed the atrocities were punished.

Through Wachsmann's KL and Arad's Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka I have come to harden my attitude quite a bit. Hound these men into their old age? Yes. Because so many of them earned it.

[RegulatorCountry]

I’ve got mixed emotions about pursuing elderly, low-level guards and such like this. It was a horrendous thing, those camps, and I don’t blame the families for wanting anyone associated with them punished. But, the extradition and trial of individuals over 90 years old has no small possibility of killing them, all the while not really knowing if any of them were actually guilty of some atrocity or just guarding the camp out of fear for their own lives if they refused. It starts looking vengeful in some ways. As I said, I’m torn. I’d likely feel differently if someone in my family had died in those camps, so I guess it’s easy for me to say.

[NorthMountain]

Romans 12:19

[Harpotoo]

I think they just got justice! And so did the tax payers!

[dfwgator]

So when do they go after Soros?

[JimRed]

Romans 12:19 English Standard Version (ESV)

19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it[a] to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”