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How Germany is prosecuting its final Nazis —now in their 90s or older
New York Post ^ | August 6, 2022 | Isabel Vincent

Posted on 08/06/2022 10:08:50 AM PDT by nickcarraway

When she appeared in a German court last month, Irmgard Furchner sat in a wheelchair clutching her handbag. Her mask and kerchief made it difficult to see the face of the 97-year-old — who has been charged with more than 11,000 counts of “aiding and abetting” murder during the Holocaust.

The nursing-home resident was a secretary in the commandant’s office of the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig, and is now among the latest former Nazis to be prosecuted in Germany.

The defendants are in their late 90s or even centenarians, but German prosecutors and a Nazi hunter are determined that they face justice for the murder of six million Jews.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: azov; azovbattalion
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To: Rinnwald

Exactly. They should be remembered as well. I try to state that 10-11 million people were exterminated by Nazi policies. Most people aren’t aware of it, nor of Stalin and Mao’s even higher numbers of mass extermination. The selective teaching of history these days is a crime in and of itself.


81 posted on 08/06/2022 2:47:15 PM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: ansel12

Didn’t say he was but maybe he did. So you are in error


82 posted on 08/06/2022 3:27:05 PM PDT by Az Joe (Biden & ChiComs are the enemy, not Putin.)
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To: Az Joe

The error is your making stuff up and trying to sell it as fact.


83 posted on 08/06/2022 3:31:43 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Kill a Commie for Mommy, proud NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon.)
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To: ansel12

You are a liar.

You claimed I said something I didn’t say.

You are a liar.


84 posted on 08/06/2022 7:58:56 PM PDT by Az Joe (Biden & ChiComs are the enemy, not Putin.)
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To: Az Joe

Read the posts again, and try to get yourself under control.


85 posted on 08/06/2022 8:22:34 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Kill a Commie for Mommy, proud NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon.)
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To: ansel12

You are a liar.


86 posted on 08/06/2022 9:38:50 PM PDT by Az Joe (Biden & ChiComs are the enemy, not Putin.)
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To: srmanuel

Yeah, damn Operation Paperclip all to hell. No, wait...


87 posted on 08/07/2022 11:32:38 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Vermont Lt

Hitler was Austrian.


88 posted on 08/07/2022 11:36:31 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: dfwgator
Speer's case is complicated. He was the only person in Hitler's inner circle who pleaded guilty to all of his charges at Nuremberg. Several Jewish ex-prisoners from the Mettleworks factory testified that they still lived because Speer demanded that the SS increase their rations and sleep periods. Speer convinced several NAZI generals to take a pass on Hitler's scorched earth policy within Germany.

Do you remember Lt. Speer in Band of Brothers? He became the commander of Spandau prison where Albert Speer was incarcerated. Major Speer developed a respect for Albert Speer through conversation.

89 posted on 08/07/2022 11:48:20 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

But later there were pictures of Speer at the death camps, which showed he indeed knew of the Holocaust.


90 posted on 08/07/2022 11:51:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ronnie raygun

It is also very important to notice that the SS wasn’t the only organization who gathered up Jews. The regular army participated as well.


91 posted on 08/07/2022 11:53:18 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: dfwgator
He knew of it, sure. He was, after all, Minister of Armaments. He didn't make any decisions related to the Holocaust or slave labor; and, the Nuremberg prosecutors could make no connection with Speer. Many from that period will tell you about the compartmentalization of German offices. If it wasn't your business, you didn't open your yap.

Von Braun also knew of the camps and the slave labor. He didn't have any control over it.

92 posted on 08/07/2022 11:59:52 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

And that is relevant to this conversation how?

People were talking about modern Germany prosecuting someone from another country, who was never in Germany and who was 12-14 years old during the war as a war criminal.

And you tell me Hitler was Austrian.

Good story.


93 posted on 08/07/2022 2:38:07 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

So, in the course of all of the conversations you’ve had throughout your life, you never had anyone bring additional matters into the discussion? If they did, can I assume that you were rude to them as well?


94 posted on 08/07/2022 4:31:57 PM PDT by GingisK
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