[Albion Wilde]

He and his wife, who was with him in the courtroom on Wednesday, lived in a redbrick townhouse in a blue-collar neighborhood of northeast Philadelphia where the small yards are surrounded by chain-link fences. Some neighbors seemed unaware of the earlier accusations against him. “He was a nice guy who fed my dog treats and talked to my parents when they came down,” said Ken Perkins, a neighbor for about 20 years.

Sad Philly ping... what do we think here? The rule of law is absolute; or "the law is an ass"?

[Peter Libra]

FWIW.

I now wished I had not done my homework and stumbled on this book.

Deliverance Day. The Last Hours at Dachau.
Michael Selzer.
Lippincott. 1978.

It could even be said that Breyer was lucky to have been at Auschwitz and not Dachau. For there the homicidal SS quickly decamped at the approaching advance of the Americans. 152 regular German soldiers in a barracks close by, were quickly pressed into service as camp guards. I will not dwell on the rest.

I can only quote the immortal bard.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.
Robert Burns.

[Gene Eric]

Why not treat him like a terrorist and send him to Bermuda?

[Albion Wilde]

Follow up to this thread from a month ago:

Nazi war suspect, 89, dies in Philadelphia hospital only hours before court rules he should be extradited to Germany to face trial

• Johann Breyer, 89, died in custody in the hospital he had been transferred to after a month in jail
• Breyer told The Associated Press in a 2012 interview that while he was a guard at Auschwitz, he was assigned to a part of the camp that was not involved in the slaughter of Jews and others
• German authorities issued a 2013 warrant charging Breyer with accessory to murder under the theory that the death camp's sole function was to kill people

[dfwgator]

But he did volunteer to join the SS.