Posted on 12/29/2017 12:23:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
Germany's Constitutional Court has ruled that a 96-year-old German must go to jail over his role in mass murders committed at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during World War Two, refusing to overturn a lower court ruling.
Oskar Groening, known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" for his job counting cash taken from the camp's victims, was sentenced to four years' jail in 2015, but wrangling over his health and age have delayed the start of his sentence.
The Constitutional Court rejected the argument by Groening's lawyers that imprisonment at his advanced age would violate his right to life, adding that the gravity of his crimes meant there was a particular need for him to be seen to be punished.
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All the real criminals have been either dealt with and/or have died long ago. All that is left are the privates and noncoms to find and punish. Not to excuse their crimes or where they served, but these people for the most part are all that is left. At 96 is it even worth the trouble to put them in jail?
Biggest murder plot in history?
Stalin killed twice as many, Mao five times as many.
Wanted debit or credit.
This is just bizarre.
But a 20 year old moslem rapes a European girl and gets off scott free. Where is the justice in that?
Exactly.
But no doubt there were those who were conscripted and assigned to jobs for which they had no choice.
This guy seemed to be assigned to counting money, and I can easily believe how a young person wouldn't think twice about following such a seemingly benign order.
That or the Russian front.
Shhhhh! It's politically incorrect to notice that.
“Shhhhh! It’s politically incorrect to notice that.”
But the Nazis did it with nasty sounding German accents so it was much, much worse than commies killing 100,000,000 innocent people.
I thought that an agreement had been made some years ago that no more Germans would be charged in connection with the Holocaust, but only non-Germans who were accused of collaborating with the Germans...but this man appears to be an ethnic German.
I don’t know the background of this guy
Very interesting character, best represented in a 6 part documentary on AHC
https://www.ahctv.com/tv-shows/auschwitz-hitlers-final-solution/
A fascinating series, describing in clinical detail, the Final Solution from the standpoint of the Auschwitz Death camps.
Oskar was indeed just an accountant, but there is more to the story.
Watch it...
Good! The law doesn’t say, “Don’t do this unless you’re old.”
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