Another Day

From Yahoo:
"German court declares 93-year-old Auschwitz SS guard fit for trial"

 

The trial of a 93-year-old former SS guard accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau will open in mid-February, a court spokeswoman said on Monday. The court in the western town of Detmold took the case against the man known as Reinhold H. who lives in the neighboring village of Lippe. The news came after a German court last week permitted the trial of another German man, aged 95, accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 3,681 people at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The higher court of Rostock in northern Germany deemed Hubert Z. fit for trial, overruling a previous decision by a lower court that considered him too fragile for a legal process. H., whose last name is confidential under German privacy laws, served at the same camp between January 1943 and June 1944. German court rulings have established a precedent for the conviction of Nazi concentration camp employees for being guilty of accessory to murder.

             

^ Another day another Nazi finally charged. Can you imagine how many the Germans could have punished for their horrible crimes if they had really wanted to in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s or the 2000s? Some may think this is too little too late, but I think that anytime a criminal is caught and punished - regardless of how much time has passed - is a good thing. These Nazis thought they had gotten away with murder - literally - and that they were going to live the rest of their lives in peace and now they have to fear being caught and punished. The fear along - especially for the elderly - is sometimes punishment enough. Bringing charges and convictions is even better. You have to remember how these same people treated the infants and the elderly when they were young. The infants were smashed against a wall or thrown into the air and shot while the elderly were beaten and gassed. I believe in an "eye for an eye" especially in cases of murder. These elderly Nazis are just "lucky" that Germany gives them better treatment then Nazi Germany did to its victims. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/german-court-declares-93-old-auschwitz-ss-guard-140538322.html