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Former Auschwitz guard dies days before trial
Fox ^ | 4/8/2016

Posted on 04/08/2016 9:38:09 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel
KEYWORDS: auschwitz; deathtonazis; ernsttremmel; germany; holocaust; israel; nazi; theholocaust; worldwareleven; ww2
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To: skeeter
That's because you didn't suffer. Read Martin Gilbert's Holocaust so you can understand.
21 posted on 04/08/2016 9:56:08 AM PDT by cornelis
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To: skeeter

At this point, all of the Nazi leaders and really important people are dead already. However, the “nazi hunters” have to keep going after whoever is left alive in order to justify their jobs, even if that means going after someone who was a green kid drafted by his country and ordered to do a nasty job, with the alternative being a gunshot to the head for desertion during wartime.


22 posted on 04/08/2016 9:56:53 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: BitWielder1

But what does this say about the “victims and families” attitude towards God? God is the one who made the alleged killer cease to live, just like He will make the others cease to live some day.


23 posted on 04/08/2016 9:57:20 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: cornelis

Jesus suffered. Read the bible so you can understand.


24 posted on 04/08/2016 9:57:56 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Paddyboy
The allies, including the russians, who basically killed any axis soldier they took prisoner?

There were 84 german general executed following the war.

25 posted on 04/08/2016 9:58:17 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: cornelis

Give me a break, we all know the Holocaust was horrible.

That doesn’t mean every kid who got drafted and sent to serve at Auschwitz was responsible. At this point, they’re just hounding people to justify their own salaries.


26 posted on 04/08/2016 9:59:22 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Good point about coercion factors. Are those weighed in? Sometimes the only we may know about them is from the accused himself, and then we have a conundrum.

There was a reason that Abraham Lincoln issued a blanket pardon to the South.


27 posted on 04/08/2016 9:59:44 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: skeeter
Why wasn't anyone associated with the camps prosecuted immediately following the war?

Many of these people simply disappeared in the chaos that was end-of-war/post-war Germany.

28 posted on 04/08/2016 9:59:57 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (I got nothin'.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
His case went directly to a much higher Court.

Yep. No plea bargains either.

29 posted on 04/08/2016 10:01:15 AM PDT by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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To: cornelis
I understand the suffering as well as anyone who didn't actually experience it can.

Prosecuting some 90 year old ex private who was assigned a job at the camp helps ease the suffering?

30 posted on 04/08/2016 10:01:41 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Mark17

Um... Jesus’ life for mine? How do we know that was not accepted?

We scoff at a Savior in some cases, forgetting He is just as needful in our own, and that even concentration camp war crimes are not the unforgivable sin.


31 posted on 04/08/2016 10:02:45 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: skeeter

partially...he has gone to Hades to await the FINAL judgment (called the “Great White Throne” judgment)—the throwing into the lake of fire (a place prepared for the devil and his own), described in Revelation 20:11-15, which will occur after the Millennial Reign of Christ on this earth.


32 posted on 04/08/2016 10:02:50 AM PDT by TurkeyLurkey
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To: HiTech RedNeck
It's easy to confuse three forms of justice.

Divine justice and earthly justices are sometimes the same.

And any human forgiveness of the murderer or rapists should not negate any justice under the law.

33 posted on 04/08/2016 10:03:04 AM PDT by cornelis
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To: skeeter

It comes from unbelief. The Jews rejected Christ and now they are playing out a slavery to vengeance. Nobody else wanted it to be pressed to this extent.


34 posted on 04/08/2016 10:04:09 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: cornelis

You should examine yourself too.


35 posted on 04/08/2016 10:04:47 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Borges

They should dig him up and hang his body in a cage at the entrance into Auschwitz. Death to Nazis and Commies.

36 posted on 04/08/2016 10:05:42 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: Borges
Can't get even a smidgen of outrage over this man's death. If you have a chance look up the case of John Demjanjuk a Cleveland area “ war criminal” and his epochal battle though the justice system of the USA , Israel and Germany. From witnesses testifying that yes this is Ivan the Terrible( 15 years after testifying that ANOTHER man was Ivan) to the blatant and criminal behavior of the FBI agents that had exculpatory evidence from the Russians 20 years before John's death AND ADMITTEDLY hid it from his attorneys. BTW those agents were never prosecuted.
37 posted on 04/08/2016 10:06:03 AM PDT by Cyman
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To: skeeter

There may be some who seek to “ease suffering.” Justice involves more.


38 posted on 04/08/2016 10:06:13 AM PDT by cornelis
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You mad, bro?


39 posted on 04/08/2016 10:07:01 AM PDT by cornelis
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To: TurkeyLurkey

How do you know where his soul is.

Maybe he was saved decades ago. And is now here as an example of suffering for Christ’s sake, at a request that is not being made by many others who had family in the camps.


40 posted on 04/08/2016 10:07:07 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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