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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The law is the law.
Apparently coercion did not seem to be respected as a factor, and indeed we have the meme now, proffered to that end, that “just following orders is no excuse.”
However, “karma” has a way of filling the vacuum left by abandoning the grace of God. Israel is under severe trials today. No it will never disappear; God will not violate His promise. But it has not obtained a “special pet indulgence” license from heaven either.
Depends on whether or not it is fair to put God to the taste test of a corrupt world.
ZC has engaged in a squealing campaign against me. I fully expect to see more squealing.
And to follow it to ridiculous ends is death.
Thats a good articulation of what my gut tells me.
The Brits used to dig up the dead-and-buried and then hang and decapitate them just to bring the point of guilt home...
They had a savage side that knew not God.
Dachau, if I remember right, was not the biggest concentration camp, just the first. I agree with you, it was sobering to be right there, in front of the ovens.
Do you recall seeing the words written in, I seem to remember, English, French, German and Russian, "Never Again?" Yes, very sobering.
Death is nature’s way of making sure none of the bad guys get away.
And of reminding us that we’re all bad guys.
A lot of them were not found out until years later.
And that is the only way to close the spiritual circuit.
I might get squealed at. But Jesus got howled at, and still came up with the Love that saved all willing generations.
I can understand those who object to hellfire preaching, up to a point. Jesus did not level this kind of rhetoric at everybody. But a point is reached when those who object start to look like those very same Pharisees that the preaching was mainly aimed at. “We’re so wonderful that we could never be in danger of that” is a lie, no matter who is saying it.
You really don’t understand why a tortured survivor would want to see a conviction?
And it is wisdom to discern what should be addressed in Caesar’s realm and what should be yielded to God’s realm. The fleeing, if truly guilty, cannot flee conscience.
Surely “never again” should apply, not only to the Holocaust, but to the heads that were lost as a result of the Holocaust. It should be a dual lesson.
More like identifying this as becoming sin at some point.
Was that the story of how she met a former guard at the camp she was in? It must have been a difficult moment for her. The love of Jesus showed through her.
He is facing the ultimate trial. He would probably rather face the one here.....
“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?”
‘A’ is NOT the correct answer.
Others were strictly war fighters but could be assigned to the camps at any time. When the U.S. troops liberated the horror show that was Dachau they lined up the SS men they had at hand against a wall and shot the lot of them without a trial, a rather understandable reaction given the boxcars of corpses they had just seen. Unfortunately those men weren't the guards responsible. Those guards had fled the scene a day before leaving the new arrivals there to hold the bag.
The real problem was that relatively few of the ones truly responsible were punished. Certain high-profile culprits such as Rudolf Hoess and Hans Frank were, but Nikolaus Wachsmann estimates that only about 15% of the commandants and guards who actually committed the atrocities were punished.
Through Wachsmann's KL and Arad's Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka I have come to harden my attitude quite a bit. Hound these men into their old age? Yes. Because so many of them earned it.
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