I hate Minnesota Nazis....
Posted on 03/13/2017 5:25:23 PM PDT by Huntress
A prosecutor in Poland is seeking the arrest of a Minneapolis man on allegations that he commanded a Nazi unit implicated in the deaths of 44 Poles.
As reported by the Associated Press, prosecutor Robert Janicki said that "all the pieces of evidence interwoven together" in the yearslong investigation have confirmed "100 percent" that 98-year-old Michael Karkoc was a World War II commander of a unit in the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion, which is accused of burning villages and killing civilians in Poland.
Prosecutors of the state National Remembrance Institute have asked a local court in Lublin, Poland, to issue an arrest warrant for Karkoc. If granted, Poland would have the charges necessary to seek his extradition, Janicki told the AP. Trials in absentia are not allowed in Poland.
The latest development reopens what Karkoc and his family thought was an issue settled in July 2015, when the German government determined that he wasn't physically well enough to stand trial because of Alzheimer's disease.
Family members have steadfastly denied that Karkoc, who could face life in prison if convicted, was involved in any war crimes and continue to do so in the wake of this latest development. He maintains that his father fought against Nazis as a member of the Defense Legion underground movement.
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Baloney
If he is a Nazi and they have 100% certain proof, they should arrest him.
No statute of limitations on murder.
Too bad he wasn’t a soldier in Mao’s army. They’d give him a parade.
He’s 98, if he deserves punishment it can’t be that far off. Leave him alone.
agreed; its yet another bad reflection of our open borders when losers like this can get in!
He probably will die before the trial. I don’t think this is so much to put him in prison as to inform people about an aspect of the war that they weren’t familiar with.
If he’s 98 and has dementia, how the hell can you punish him so that he knows it? If I get the urge to give someone a beat-down, they have to know why. This guy, if guilty, should never have skated this long, but he has.
98 and in a geriatric hospital.
There’s no winning, here.
Hitler escaped to the USA, got a sex change - allegedly - and changed his name to Hillary Clinton. Why isn’t HE arrested?
You are 100% correct
Bull shit. What will they do when there is no chance of living that long. Move on!!
Funny that people care now or in the last couple decades because they sure forgave quickly after ww2. Germans with death sentences for war crimes were reduced to life after a few years. Then they got out serving only ten. I’ve read much history on the subject and it is amazing how people allowed so many true war criminals go. I forget his name but the tank commander at the bulge that executed Americans got out quick. But in the middle of the night someone came and settled the score.
agreed; its yet another bad reflection of our open borders when losers like this can get in!
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the US cut deals with a number of Nazis for information. One worked in the public sector locally until his death.
Really? People are killed during a war, it is not murder. You don’t know what you’re taking about.
That certain proof today is nothing but heresay.............
You talk too much without any evidence.
Agreed. There really isn’t a moral choice left at this point.
Could he even survive a plane trip of any distance, let alone to Poland? Too late,this one isn’t a good case to prosecute. As horrible as what he is accused of is, you can’t possibly get justice now. Not on this earth. His maker has his own plans though
A very, very nasty time in history for almost all parties involved.
Recall that the first major European holocaust in the 20th Century was the slaughter of Ukrainians, known as the Holodomor, by Stalin and his Bolsheviks.
When given a chance, many Ukranians sided with the Nazis to fight the Soviets.
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