Former Auschwitz guard dies days before trial

Fox ^ | 4/8/2016

[Borges]

A former Auschwitz guard has died days before his trial in Germany -- dashing the hopes of survivors who wanted to see justice for their dead parents.

Ernst Tremmel, who was 93, was a guard at the notorious Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War.

He was accused of 1,075 counts of accessory to murder, covering the time he worked at the camp from November 1942 to June 1943.

[Still Thinking]

A former Auschwitz guard has died days before his trial in Germany -- dashing the hopes of survivors who wanted to see justice for their dead parents.

How so? He ain't getting any deader.

[Cboldt]

Speedy trial! Just like in the US.

[Smittie]

He has now been judged by the Supreme Judge.

[skeeter]

I realize its a controversial thing to say and many might take offense, but I can’t really get all wound up about prosecuting a 90+ year old who was a 20 year old nobody private for what went on at one of these camps.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

So this is what German law enforcement is doing instead of prosecuting the Middle Eastern “migrants” who are going around molesting kids and raping women.

[Buckeye McFrog]

His case went directly to a much higher Court.

[sagar]

Ah the statute of limitations on murders ... just like what abortionists(women and doctors alike) want.

[mvonfr]

I realize its a controversial thing to say and many might take offense, but I can’t really get all wound up about prosecuting a 90+ year old who was a 20 year old nobody private for what went on at one of these camps.

There are people whose jobs depend on prosecuting WWII war criminals, so such must be found.

The dilemma for them now is to close the project ... or charge the very last WWII criminal alive: George Soros.

[skeeter]

Why wasn't anyone associated with the camps prosecuted immediately following the war? Was the act of mass murder taken more lightly then than it is now?

These contemporary prosecutions are more political than anything else, IMO.

[punknpuss]

. . . or charge the very last WWII criminal alive: George Soros.
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If only!

[Mr. K]

they could not find many of them- they hid their identities

[mkjessup]

+ 100

[cmomm44]

Amen——What would some or all of these accusers have done back then-—obey your orders while in the military or be shot or go to a concentration camp?-—stupid nonsense of spending money on trials of old men just to ‘get even’-——cn’t bring the dead back to life in any event-—Vengeance shall be Mine, saith the Lord——

[Boogieman]

“dashing the hopes of survivors who wanted to see justice for their dead parents”

Huh? What’s the difference if a 93 year old is hanged or dies in his bed? He’s still just as dead.

[KarlInOhio]

Cheated the hangman just like Hermann Göring ... only much, much slower.

[BitWielder1]

A trial and conviction, then death, would mean some closure for the victims and their families.
When a war criminal dies of old age before trial, he essentially got away with murder.

[Paddyboy]

The Allies executed over 74,000 German war criminals after the war,and even with that many still still escaped

[HiTech RedNeck]

Kinda doesn’t sound like they think a lot about God.

[skeeter]

They prosecuted the people they could prove were responsible. I dont think anyone would have considered the suggestion that any soldier associated with the camp in any capacity be prosecuted and charged with murder a serious proposal.