93-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Charged With 300,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder

[bbddi]

[QUOTE=Pnukup;45996668]Just let him life the rest of his life in peace, why are they pressing charges now?[/QUOTE]

i love the hilarity of people who think as soon as you turn like 60 or something you no longer are a nazi piece of shit and now you're just a sweet old german man living in argentina and you automatically become super remorseful and solemn about the atrocities you committed. will it do any good to put him in a cell? no. should he still be publicly shamed and outed as a nazi piece of shit? yes. i work with the elderly and i can guarantee if you're a piece of shit when you're young theres like a 90% chance that when you get old you'll just be an old piece of shit. contrary to popular belief, age doesnt magically make people respectful, wise sages who internally atone for their past sins. it just means their swastika tattoo is a bit saggy and sometimes they cant help if they pee

[Silly Sil]

[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;45998186]I'm not equating the two, I'm comparing them.
In both cases, you have to do something which you not ordinarily do, in order to keep yourself alive. They both work on the same principle of self-preservation, that people's actions can be at least somewhat excused when they've confronted with their own mortality.

If you kill someone because you've got a gun to your head and you're being told to do it, then you shouldn't be charged with murder. You had no alternative, other than to let yourself be killed, and while [I]some[/I] people might be willing to die instead of kill, that is not a standard which is fair to hold [I]everyone[/I] to.[/QUOTE]
Again in self defense you defend yourself against the attacker when you ran out of non-lethal options. Meaning, you had no other choice, kill or be killed. Auschwitz guards were not killed on the spot if they didn't want to be there.
Choosing comfortable auschwitz barracks and being an accessory to genocide instead of going to the front and fighting the enemy is a choice.
I don't want to charge regular soldiers, it was war. But if he went "I'd rather gas and rob innocent people than die actually doing what soldiers do in a war", he can be held responsible.
And don't even try to tell me everything that nazis done at concentration camps was because they had a gun to their heads. You have no idea what happened there if you think that.