Posted on 04/19/2019 2:22:19 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
BERLIN (Reuters) - German prosecutors have charged a 92-year-old former concentration camp guard with being an accessory to murder, in what will be one of the last ever cases against Nazi-era war crimes.
Hamburg prosecutors accused the man, identified only as Bruno D., of aiding and abetting 5,230 cases of murder during the almost nine months he spent on duty at a concentration camp watch-tower at the end of World War Two.
According to Die Welt newspaper, which first reported the charges, the man admitted to prosecutors during a voluntary interrogation last year that he had seen people being taken to gas chambers to be murdered.
“What good would it have done for me to leave? They’d just have found somebody else,” he told prosecutors, according to the newspaper.
The case against another nonagenarian former guard at Stutthof, where more than 60,000 people died, was halted last year because the suspect was too infirm to stand trial.
Another, Oskar Groening, known as the “Bookkeeper of Auschwitz” for his job counting cash stolen from people sent to the most notorious of all the regime’s death camps, died last year aged 96 as he waited to begin his sentence.
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The nazis didn’t spare elderly Jews, not even those in old folks homes.
Should Soros also be charge with helping the Nazis capture and execute his fellow Jews?
My wife and I know descendants of Nazis that fled to Central America. I have eaten with one lady and my wife has visited with her and others. When she visited one family, they had many Nazi items.
Interestingly, they were clearly mixed heritage, yet they had attitudes that showed they greatly sympathized with their grandfather. It was their “special” history.
Fascinating stuff.
Are any members of the FDR Administration or any of the members of the Coast Guard going to be prosecuted for their direct involvement in the deaths of the Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis?
They were just following orders, right?
I wonder why they wait until these men are near the end of their lives to prosecute them.
Because there are so few of them left and so few Germans alive or in government today have Nazi pasts.
When most of the country and the political establishment had Nazi connections, prosecutions weren't happening.
This gut was 17 or 18 years old the end of the war. Was anyone held responsible for the Katyn forest massacre or did they continue receiving their pensions?
92? We’re down to the guys who were 18 or 19 when the war ended, and younger still the final year or two the war ran. Not exactly the men who made decisions or were in charge of anything.
Meanwhile, Albert Speer got away with only having to serve 20 years.
George Soros was 8 years old at the time of WWII>
He only stole their wealth and we’ve put a statute of limitations on theft. Being an evil jerk, unfortunately, is not prosecutable.
This fellow was in his mid-teens when the war ended. And yet the blood-spattered Bolsheviks sauntered away scot-free. Why is that?
Same here on my sister’s trip years ago. After college, they went to Brazil and struck up a conversation with a nice old lady who ran the small hotel. During dinner time, they were invited to a nice veranda and inside the room attached to the veranda, were Nazi stuff out in the open, including Hitler’s portrait. Even took photos and selfies but there is no way she will upload those pics on instagram, FB etc. She admitted eventually she was the daughter of one of the nazis who escaped..
Soros was 15 by the time WW2 ended. There was plenty of time and opportunity for mischief or to simply to learn at the knee of madmen.
At least this guy is a German, and not a Ukrainian, like Demjanjuk, who was basically given the choice to either become a camp guard, or be shot by the Nazis.
I wonder why they go after guards who were too young to be masterminds, while Soros walks free and manipulates world affairs even today. And why the Bush family isn’t forced to condemn the activities and sentiments of their patriarch. And I wonder why Jews weren’t given a chunk of Germany.
I am not sure guard tower duty is aiding and abetting. Unless there is proof he actually committed crimes, I am pretty sure being a bystander is not worthy of prosecution this long after.
If he “participated”, then fine. If he stood in a tower and witnessed, I am not sure what he was expected to do.
At least Poland got a chunk, (well then the Soviets took a chunk of Poland, as well).
Should Soros also be charge with helping the Nazis capture and execute his fellow Jews?
Yes You are correct.
I don't know the answer to your question but I will say this: if he murdered people and if the state can prove it and get a conviction, he should be executed.
If his crimes do not deserve the death penalty then after 74 years the state should not pursue the matter.
Perhaps some prosecutor needs some publicity and figures a Nazi show-trial will obtain it.
If convicted at age 92 and sentenced to life that will amount to what - a 24-month sentence?
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