MaSS Murdering 89 year old held on Auschwitz charges - Nazi Hunt - Polidicks

[QUOTE=wrv451nlp;45153464]The Fourth Reich are really trying hard to cover their tracks, What are they even gonna do? Throw every former Nazi and their descendants into concentration camps just for revenge for something that happened before most people alive today were even born?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=wrv451nlp;45153464]The Fourth Reich are really trying hard to cover their tracks[/quote] Let's rewind a second.

I am fine with this. I think the ongoing Nazi hunts and arrests are more about establishing precedent than anything else. The world needs to know there is no statute of limitations on genocide. Maybe knowing they'll still be on the run at age 89 will make a few people think twice about their participation in future war crimes.

People who say guards who were forced to do their job are innocent because otherwise they'd die, most people performing the executions were also forced and if they didn't do it they'd also be killed. Then why is one supposedly okay while the other punishable? It wasn't their fault they were chosen to do the dirty job.

[QUOTE=Wargammer02;46777177]If you think about it, during the Holocaust and WW2, many people in Germany actually agreed with Hitler's rules and ideas, violence towards Jews in Nazi Germany was common place, both by Nazis and regular citizens, even if this man did order the slaughter of 216,000 Jews during WW2, it is likely he was only doing what hundreds of other guards were doing at the time, following orders and trying not to get shot by their CO for speaking out against the atrocities they were carrying out, we must remember that there were strict rules on following everything Hitler ordered his army to do. Also. this whole thing between Jews and Germany has actually been going on before WW2, during the black plague of the 1300s, Jews were burned because they were blamed for starting it in the first place, obviously the plague wasn't caused by people of the Jewish faith, but that is what some German people thought even back then, so why arrest an ex-Nazi for doing what he may have been ordered to do or just believing in something that many other people believed back then, just move on and ficus on more pressing matters like Syria, ISIS and Hamas, they are the real threat.[/QUOTE] Who is teaching you history? Not every German citizen agreed with Hitler's ideology, especially the German Jews. [URL]http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005469[/URL] [URL]http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005687[/URL] "Germany had a Jewish population of 565,000 in 1933" Additionally, many German citizens were really only concerned with the reconstruction of their country after the result of World War 1, I don't think Hitler's ideology had really shown it's true colors until after the economic reconstruction. Plus, why do you assume every soldier is an automaton robot without feeling? Are you that naive to believe that once they give him one simple order every emotion and personality that makes him human is removed? It doesn't take a idiot to know that he was well aware of what he was doing. And the persecution during the plague was not caused by just Germans, it was conducted all over Europe, whoever found a small Jewish community. *oh shit, I just realized this thread dates back to June*

They should prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law. That doesn't mean he should serve prison time. But it should go on record that he was found guilty of his crimes.

I'm sure he chose that job, right? And it wasn't the threat of death for treason that motivated him to do it or anything. Is that not a form of duress? Being drafted into a unit by your government to do a specific job on the government's behalf the way they tell you to do it should exonerate you from responsibility of that act. In my opinion Otherwise all soldiers of all nations would always be tried and convicted as individuals of murder, trespassing, so on and so forth

Why do we lock people up? To reform them, get them to reflect on their actions, and keep them away from society while that happens. Now... This man is 89. He has probably reflected on everything there was to reflect about, and he is not a danger to society at all unless his cane is also a shotgun. Which it probably isn't. What sensible reason is there to lock him up besides "B-But he has to pay!!" revenge boner nonsense? You lot are talking a load of rubbish. "So you're saying that certain things should just be forgotten with time?" Well, yeah. This man, for starters, was just a pawn. If he hadn't obeyed, he would have been shot. Can you tell me what choice he had? I'll tell you: He had none. [editline]23rd December 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Pantz Master;46778073] That doesn't mean he should serve prison time. But it should go on record that he was found guilty of his crimes.[/QUOTE] The crime of not being a moron who became dead because he didn't obey? And what exactly will that accomplish?