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Court Rules 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz', 96, Must Go to Jail
Straits Times ^ | 11/29/2017

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at straitstimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: auschwitz; germany; holocaust; worldwarii
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To: nickcarraway

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?


21 posted on 12/29/2017 1:05:56 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: jerod

Biggest murder plot in history?

Stalin killed twice as many, Mao five times as many.


22 posted on 12/29/2017 1:21:57 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: nickcarraway

Wanted debit or credit.


23 posted on 12/29/2017 1:27:58 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: nickcarraway

This is just bizarre.


24 posted on 12/29/2017 1:41:43 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: nickcarraway

But a 20 year old moslem rapes a European girl and gets off scott free. Where is the justice in that?


25 posted on 12/29/2017 1:44:28 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Exactly.


26 posted on 12/29/2017 1:47:45 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: nickcarraway
I don't know the background of this guy.

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.
 

27 posted on 12/29/2017 2:11:23 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: DuncanWaring
Stalin killed twice as many, Mao five times as many.

Shhhhh! It's politically incorrect to notice that.

28 posted on 12/29/2017 2:16:17 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain; DuncanWaring

“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.


29 posted on 12/29/2017 2:31:20 PM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: JohnyBoy
Apparently all he did was sort banknotes taken from the Jews who were brought to Auschwitz. He would have been forgotten about except that he argued against Holocaust deniers by describing what he had witnessed himself at Auschwitz.

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.

30 posted on 12/29/2017 2:40:59 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

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...


31 posted on 12/29/2017 4:06:22 PM PST by Paisan
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To: nickcarraway

Good! The law doesn’t say, “Don’t do this unless you’re old.”


32 posted on 12/30/2017 7:56:38 AM PST by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: CondorFlight
Exactly. Throw the old swienhunde in a cell and let him rot. SS bastard.
33 posted on 12/31/2017 4:55:56 PM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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