Posted on 10/18/2019 1:17:49 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former SS guard, said on Thursday he was sorry for his actions as he went on trial in Germany for complicity in the murder of more than 5,000 people at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
Dey stands accused of abetting the murder of 5,230 people when he worked at the Stutthof camp near what was then Danzig, now Gdansk in Poland.
While he insisted that he did not join the deadly operation voluntarily, he voiced regret for his actions.
"That's what he said in his interrogation: He felt sorry for what he did," said his lawyer Stefan Waterkamp, according to AFP.
"It was also clear to him that (the inmates) were not in there because they were criminals, but for anti-Semitic, racist and other reasons. He had compassion for them. But he did not see himself in a position to free them," added the lawyer.
Seated in a wheelchair, Dey wore a hat and sunglasses and hid his face behind a red folder as he entered the courtroom, according to AFP.
Waterkamp said his client was "ready to respond to all questions", underlining that Dey "did not join the SS voluntarily".
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Unfortunately, I believe he should be shot at dawn
Just end it...
I really can not understand the madness of WWII and the insanity of the lack of humanity at the time
Just end him as another example and may God have mercy on him.
I watched Schindler’s list once and will never watch it again.
I still well with tears each time I watch Saving Private Ryan and the Jewish fellow breaking down in tears, after they take the German position.
KcuF the Nazi’s z their soldiers, collaborators and anyone else involved in that insanity...
Soros next?
Yes, the same insanity and inhumanity that consumes the Democrats of today.
sit soros on his lap when you fire the first shot, save a bullet like the Nazis did
17 years old.
He lived almost his entire life under the Hitler propaganda regime.
By 1945, Germany was literally collapsing on every front, and the German homeland was being systematically destroyed by USA and British bombers.
But, 76 years later, he is being held responsible for his teenage war time decisions?
Sorry - I think this specific prosecution is completely misguided.
It was not uncommon by the end for the Nazis to force people into the SS. He could easily be telling the truth that he did not join voluntarily. The regime and the SS were awful but I’m not prepared to automatically hold guilty any teenager forced into it simply because the organization was awful.
I agree with you. During the war, Daimler-Benz made aircraft engines and vehicles for the German army. They used forced labor, including concentration camp prisoners and prisoners of war.
What happened to those in charge of those factories, and the higher management who approved of and oversaw this? These were adults who were supporting and profiting from the Nazis. I’m not saying we should be going after all of them (if any are still alive), but if not them then why someone who was a teenager when involuntarily forced into the SS?
Is he any worst than a doctor that performs abortions?
We can dream. He has the great cure for criminal prosecution: Money.
On the other hand, the SS were elites. I believe he was forced into the Wehrmacht, but to join the SS you had to have distinctions.
This is the one modern genocide the “left” actually pretends to care about, so we must pause for a moment of silence.
Seriously there’s any of these left alive ??? (18 year olds at end of war would be 74+18= 92 !!!)
Those commercials for christian help for jews in russia (alleged “holocaust” survivors) make them out to be ~4 years old during WW2 - which would have been instant death if ever sent to a concentration camp (so most likely weren’t).
Its getting to the tail end of the people involved.
That's because you don't realize that the only difference between the Antifa people brutally beating an elderly man or cracking someones skull with a bicycle lock and Nazi behavior in WWII is only a difference in magnitude, not a difference in kind.
All coming to a country near and dear to you.
It’s troubling from many angles. On the one hand, this is an old man. On the other hand, he participated in crimes that should have been punished long ago. His tranquil longevity is stolen. On the other hand, the particulars of the crimes he participated in are highly material. Other than being a guard, what did he do? Being a guard involved keeping people in a concentration camp, where they were murdered and enslaved. But rebelling against this role and actively freeing them would have resulted in his death. So, how to judge this man. He’s a criminal, but also a victim. Some leniency is in order, but had he turned himself in for justice in 1946, rather than hiding for 74 years, I would have an easier time being lenient. Hiding is symptomatic of guilt, just like running. Let the judge decide. It’s a tough case.
Some of my teachers, friends and neighbors had numbers on their arms. One did not, but only because he found a place to hide in Antwerp. Schindler’s List was a powerful movie, but encountering the reality in life was no small thing, either. But I have a hard time judging this man, for the reasons stated in my last post. But judge we must.
Some of my teachers, friends and neighbors had numbers on their arms. One did not, but only because he found a place to hide in Antwerp. Schindler’s List was a powerful movie, but encountering the reality in life was no small thing, either. But I have a hard time judging this man, for the reasons stated in my last post. But judge we must.
I watched Schindler’s list once and will never watch it again.”””
Could never figure out why I would want to watch that movie. You know they’re going to make it as sentimental and powerful as they can and given the subject matter they’d only gave to show what actually and truly hapoend. I gave it a pass, thank you.
It doesn’t sound like an easy case to weigh to my ears, assuming the information given is accurate. When will we begin hunting down any and all soviet soldiers who happened to be stationed at the Gulags during Stalin’s reign of terror? How about Vietnamese, Chinese or Cambodians? When does justice come to them?
It seems this man is guilty mostly of cowardice, and in a regime like the Nazis, especially being at the end and seeing it’s history, it’s not too difficult to excuse one trying to avoid being the proud nail that gets hammered down or yanked out even if you don’t like the board you’re in.
I’m also of the opinion that one of the greatest crimes of the Nazi leadership was the systematic brainwashing of the youth via control of the schools and media. Something like what’s happening today but taken to it’s logical conclusion. To say this 17 year old raised in the Reich was fully competent to make a conscious decision at that time is to erase some of the culpability of the leadership by nullifying the effectiveness of their propaganda and control. There’s a problem with saying the Nazis were evil for brainwashing the next generation and at the same time saying one of those victims was fully capable of acting within a correct moral framework. Those two things can’t both be true.
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