From the DW:
“Germany: Former SS soldier
charged with hate speech”
Prosecutors in the German state
of Lower Saxony said Wednesday that they have charged an ex-SS guard for
questioning the extent of the Holocaust and offensive comments he made about
the victims of a massacre of civilians in France during World War II. Karl M.
admitted last year in an interview with German TV broadcaster ARD to being part
of an SS troop that massacred 86 villagers in the town of Ascq in northern
France in April 1944. He denied shooting at the victims, some of whom were as
young as 15. But prosecutors charged him with hate speech and slandering the
memory of the deceased by claiming that the Ascq victims were responsible for
their own deaths and separately questioning whether the Nazis had killed six
million Jews during the Holocaust. Denying or belittling the Holocaust is a
crime in Germany. Karl M. was one of the SS soldiers involved in the massacre
of 86 people in Villeneuve-d'Ascq in North France Karl M. will not be charged
for his participation in the massacre of Ascq villagers, after it was ruled he
could not be found guilty of the same crime twice. The former soldier was
sentenced to death in abstentia by a French court in 1949 for his role in the
mass slaughter. He could face five years in jail if convicted. Multiple ex-SS
soldiers have faced trial in recent years over their actions during the Nazi
era.
^ Even when a Nazi admits to
being at a massacre of innocent people the Germans still refuse to punish him. I knew that was what West Germany
did from the 1940s-1980s (when Nazis were allowed to live openly in society)
but I had hoped that with newer generations of Germans now in office that weren’t
Nazis themselves that things would really change. This case shows that it
really hasn’t changed that much. Sure he will be charged with belittling the
Holocaust, but not for murder during the Holocaust. The Germans won’t even use his
name – they continue to protect their Nazis. According to the world media it is
“Karl Muenter” and they even published his pictured (above.) ^
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