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98-year-old German man is charged with accessory to murder at Nazi concentration camp
NY Post ^ | 09/01/2023 | AP

Posted on 09/01/2023 7:16:01 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors said Friday.

The German citizen, a resident of Main-Kinzig county near Frankfurt, is accused of having “supported the cruel and malicious killing of thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard detail,” prosecutors in Giessen said in a statement.

They did not release the suspect’s name.

He is charged with more than 3,300 counts of being an accessory to murder between July 1943 and February 1945.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: camp; concentration; concentrationcamp; german; nazi; sachsenhausen
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Took long enough
1 posted on 09/01/2023 7:16:01 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Get ‘em while you can.


2 posted on 09/01/2023 7:17:49 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

17 to 19 years old during the time of his alleged involvement.

This is nothing more than keeping the ‘Nazis among us’ myth alive.


3 posted on 09/01/2023 7:19:21 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Seems a little hypocritical while Germany is actively giving panzers to you know who.


4 posted on 09/01/2023 7:21:03 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

THIS they can find——

Biden keeps on dodging everything


5 posted on 09/01/2023 7:22:07 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I have mixed feelings about this. If it can be proven that this guy actively participated in even one murder, then prosecute him. I don’t care how old he is. And I don’t care if he was “only following orders”.

But if it can only be proven that he was present at the camp, that’s a far different story.


6 posted on 09/01/2023 7:25:45 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ridiculous.


7 posted on 09/01/2023 7:26:07 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: DesertRhino

Imagine a Russia Soldier today looking up out of his foxhole and seeing a Panzer with an iron cross coming at him, if they have any sense of history it has to be pretty crazy to comprehend and to see this panzer really near places like Kursk and Stalingrad, does seem like history repeating itself.


8 posted on 09/01/2023 7:26:36 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He must have said something about non-germans in germany recently.


9 posted on 09/01/2023 7:28:26 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And I notice none of the Germans charged lord this are ever related to people like Merkel, Freeland in Canada, Merkel, Schwab, Soros, Ursula Von der crazy or others from prominent Nazi families.

Funny how that seems to work.


10 posted on 09/01/2023 7:30:26 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Leaning Right

A few years ago, the German Government changed the law about Concentration Camp guards, now all they need to show is that this person had assigned duty at a concentration camp and he’s guilty by association.


11 posted on 09/01/2023 7:30:43 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s ridiculous to charged basically a kid at the time with no agency in the Nazi regime.
If he had a choice it was either being a guard or the Russian front.

Might as well charge any members of a B17 or B24 for committing war crimes.
Yes it’s is a crime according to the Geneva convention to make war on civilians miles away the front line.
But don’t hold your breath waiting for it.
It’s called “Victor’s Justice.


12 posted on 09/01/2023 7:30:46 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjam Franklin.)
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To: srmanuel

True. Gotta be a surreal feeling.


13 posted on 09/01/2023 7:32:32 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nothing wrong with prosecuting Nazis. But I also notice loads of Isis that was just as genocidal returns to the EU and UK receive forgiveness and pensions.
Again… interesting.


14 posted on 09/01/2023 7:35:12 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: srmanuel

In a bit they’ll expand it to include the offspring of anyone associated with prison camps. Anything to keep nazis in the press.


15 posted on 09/01/2023 7:37:29 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: RedMonqey
Might as well charge any members of a B17 or B24 for committing war crimes. Yes it’s is a crime according to the Geneva convention to make war on civilians miles away the front line.

As far as Japan goes, Geneva conventions didn't exist. Once Japan used the fu-go balloon bombs to try to kill our citizens in 1942 (and killed one family), their citizens became fair game. And don't get me started on the fact that the Axis powers killed six times as many civilians as the Allied powers, yet 78 years later only Americans beat themselves up over it (the atom bombs).

16 posted on 09/01/2023 7:38:32 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Its like going after former slave-owners in the USA

Its how the ruling elite keep their political narrative alive in Germany


17 posted on 09/01/2023 7:39:35 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When will the U.S. charge people with crimes against humanity who have and are supporting and participating in the genocidal murder of 60 million children in the womb.


18 posted on 09/01/2023 7:40:06 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In 1943 he would have been an 18 year old draftee. He went to where he was assigned, without any option to turn down the position without being shot.

Meanwhile, where is the similar energy expended to those who worked for murderous Communist regimes?


19 posted on 09/01/2023 7:42:10 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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To: RedMonqey

There were no documented accounts of anyone facing punishment for refusing to kill. They were just assigned to a different unit. Unfortunately there were enough willing participants that would fill in. Read “The good old days”.


20 posted on 09/01/2023 7:42:50 AM PDT by enraged
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