why? to me still prosecuting auld men for things which happened 70 years ago feels to me more like defeat than victory. all the senior people are long dead, all the officers are long dead, you're now getting people who were in many cases peripheral to the entire process in their own culpability. yes, they were there, yes, what they did deserved punishment: but it seems to me little's gained by making them die in prison after so long. i think the game's no longer worth the candle as the prizes are all dross.
yeh, as it is a lifetime later he's been sentenced to spend his last months in prison where he'll almost certainly spend the remainder of his life in the prison hospital.
i don't think they all had long and happy lives but they were the people whose punishment would really resonate. sending some minor functionary to prison 70 years after the end of the war doesn't to me seem to send the message "we really don't approve of this sort of thing" but more "every now and then we can send down a minor cog, having let so many of the movers and shakers evade us"
I agree mate, I just like the idea of nazis getting punished.
i prefer the idea of young nazis getting punished.
shurely "the german states". there were of course the nuremberg trials and a series of subsequent trials in east and west germany, not to mention the zionist entity. while sentences may have been commuted no one i believe is suggesting anyone already tried should be retried. it would be nice to have a point to which to respond tho.
as detailed in the brown book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunbuch and highlighted by, among others, the red army faction.
That's. The problem. Trying to rebuild a state when so many are guilty Nazi's corrupted everything.
At least another one faces justice.That link does no such thing - why pretend that a review/precis of a book that demonstrates the half hearted (or, heavily instrumentalised and politicised) pretence of de-nazification and the continued influential state roles that actual high ranking naizis played in the post-war FRG is 'wibbling on about the children of nazis'? Or did you just not bother to read the link? Or did you read it but just didn't understand it at all?
Well the first plan after a great die off was to turn germany into an agrarian economy which would never be able to threaten europe again after the soviet threat ment that was not on rebuilding germany needed managers and anyone who was any good at their job was a Nazi. Short of opening up the camps for another holocaust no easy way to de nazification germany and leave it in any way functioning.
Yes, really. Well done on skipping to the last para and not bothering with the rest though. Good job.
