Posted on 11/23/2018 11:36:52 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
German prosecutors on Friday charged a 95-year-old man with more than 36,000 counts of accessory to murder over his alleged time as a Nazi concentration camp guard during World War II.
The allegations against the accused, identified only as Hans H., concern atrocities committed at the Mauthausen camp in Austria.
Hans H. is believed to have belonged to the SS-Totenkopfsturmbann (Death's Head Battalion) between summer 1944 and spring 1945 at Mauthausen, part of the Nazis' vast network of concentration camps.
Prosecutors argue that by working as a guard at the site, the accused contributed to tens of thousands of prisoner deaths.
During his time at the camp, at least 36,223 inmates died. Guards took part in killings by gas, fatal injections, gunfire and other means, while many more prisoners died of hunger or frostbite, prosecutors said.
"The accused is believed to have been aware of all the methods of killing as well as the disastrous living conditions of the inmates," their statement said.
"It is believed that he knew these methods of killing were used against a large number of people and that they could only be killed in this way, with this degree of regularity, if the victims were guarded by people like him."
A total of 200,000 people were held at Mauthausen, half of whom died before the camp's liberation by US troops in May 1945.
A Berlin court must now decide whether the case against Hans H. can proceed.
Germany has been racing to put on trial surviving SS personnel, after the legal basis for prosecuting former Nazis changed in 2011 with the landmark conviction of former guard John Demjanjuk.
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Sorry, if you took it personally.
If he were a conservative, he may have been.
I think it is just a statement of fact. I’ve read that the work camps had much higher death rates than the Jewish death camps with the furnaces. Perhaps it was the total number of deaths, as there were way more work (slave) camps than death camps. They would work them to death (or killing them when they could no longer work) and bring in more.
Never looked at it that way!
I’m fine with this, but aren’t they about 60 years late??
I believe there was a stone quarry in, or near, the complex, as well.
Soros was 14 in May of 1945.
Do you have video or just hearsay?
Awhile ago there was a thread on a V2 rocket, I think one had been found buried in a field. Some freeper mentioned that way more people died in slave camps building the V2 than the rockets ever killed.
google it.
The clintons had their daughters wedding at Soros mansion.
These are the things done by Europe's most progressive society, a scant 80 years ago. It's why the cries of "Nazi!" by the new American left are so infuriating. `
Guarding a place is the same as killing 36,000 people..?
NAZI, communist not a lot of difference. Some were willing to work for whoever paid and provided the perques. Power is power no matter who is at the top I guess.
only real difference was the racial element with the nazis.
a totalitarian regime is a totalitarian regime...
Unfortunately the civilian population had no stomach for more war. At the time of Bastogne the manufacturers in the U.S. were lobbying to step down from war production.
And then the Soviets had the numbers on us. They believed “numbers have a quality of their own”.
They had 11.5 million troops facing 4.5 million troops of the rest of the allies combined.
They also had superior numbers of armor and artillery.
Sorry, but they had the numbers.
“a totalitarian regime is a totalitarian regime...”
Same package, different wrapping.
AMEN!!!!!
We have one over here. George Soros[not his real name] worked in Hungary for the Gestapo tracking down and betraying Jews in hiding to them for a share of their worldly goods. Why hasn’t Hungary prosecuted him?
Yes, I know Soros’ bio. And no, I do not know why Hungary hasn’t done anything or why President Trump has extradited him!
He has warrants out against him via Hungary, I’ve heard?
I read somewhere that Russia had a warrant on him also. Something to do with their currency.
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