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Vibrationbaby 
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 Posted: June 17 2013 at 21:37 |
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Yeah but his portrayal in the Forsyth story was pure fabrication. There was no ODESSA. The Nazis made it out of Germany on their own more or less. He was never known as the Butcher Of Riga as far as I could find out. this was something invented by Forsyth in the novel and it stuck.
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tszirmay
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Posted: June 17 2013 at 23:08 |
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that is correct but he was the SS commander in charge of Riga and killed thousands . The moniker was an easy literary creation.
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The T
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 00:48 |
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The guy is old and probably has but little time left. I just feel people would be falling down to an unhealthy level of thirst for vengeance to put the obviously soon-to-die guy in jail thus also probably destroying people who are also probably not guilty of anything, his family. Yes, he didn't have those considerations for others' families and a few years ago we would have welcomed him being punished for his crimes. But going all vendetta on a useless 94 year old doesn't sound that good to me. I don't know.
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 01:10 |
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^ Not sure if his family is gonna be cool with living with an ex-Nazi from then on. As per "an unhealthy level of thirst for vengeance" ... what? Who would go down to that?
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Dean
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 02:30 |
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Sixty years of living in comfort, safety and freedom, living a life that the victims never could and raising a family that the victims never could. What repentence? What mercy? What thirst for vengence?
Whatever happened to justice?
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 06:54 |
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I dunno either. I'm with Mr.T on this one.
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Vibrationbaby
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So if you were the judge and this old geezer came in front of you you would say, "off with his head" or "drawn & Quartered" or "medieval torture" or "hook him to the back of the tank and take him for a scrape around the block'". or bread & water for the rest of his....... Seriously what kind of punishment would you dish out?
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Gerinski
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 07:17 |
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If it was already cold between the Anglo-Americans and the Russians, the last thing we needed was the news of the spying by the British to the G-20 delegates. I guess they all spy each other, but it's kind of embarrassing.
We're heading into cold war again
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 07:21 |
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I don't know about this.
My granddad had to flee to Sweden with my father, during the 2. WW. My dad was but a mere toddler when it happened, but he vividly remembers all of the unfortunate souls from his family who somehow managed to survive the cruelty of the labour camps. They would meet up at new year's eve every year and form this huge circle of people - holding each other in a warm embrace. My dad said that they went somewhere in that moment, their gazes became distant and he could almost sense the coldness and heartache filling the room from some 10 to 20 years ago. Each year there'd be fewer and fewer attending - most of them ending their lives prematurely by their own hands. Too much evil left inside I suppose. What I mean to say by all this, is that across the globe there are literally thousands upon thousands of similar stories - stories that still to this day colour families in despair. Each time one of these old buggers emerge, the wounds open up again - and even if the war is long gone, I'll bet that a lot of these people still long for justice. Now you can bend the word justice to whatever agenda you wish, but you can't deny these families of their feelings of betrayal, when they continue to see war criminals popping up.
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Dean
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 07:50 |
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Do you really think that "we" are a rabid mob baying for blood? I have no "jewish" axe to grind, I am not out for retribution, an eye for an eye or a pound of flesh - if (and it is only an "IF") the guy committed war-crimes then he should answer for those crimes and that punishment should fit the crime within what the law permits in the country he is tried in (which would be Poland or Germany, neither of whom have corporal or capital punishment). Do you seriously believe that corporal punishment is acceptable in this day and age? Do you honestly tthinkthat is what I am after? You cannot demonise me for wanting to see jjusticeserved, it's simply not going to wash. Incarceration for the rest of his natural life if it can be proven that he is culpable, denial of freedom is the modern method of punishment regardless of the nature of the crime committed. |
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 08:26 |
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isn't that a bit too lenient. I mean if they caught the guy just after the war he would have probably be hanged if he were convicted. No? So why not send him to the gallows today? I'm actually for leaving the guy alone but if you're going to prosecute him do so using the punishments which were in place at the time of his crimes. If you're gonna do something do it right man. Look what the Israelis did with Eichmann. They didn't f**k around with him.
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 09:00 |
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This article explains how changed laws have made it much easier to convict these guys by no longer having to prove blood on their own hands via witnesses or photos.....it is enough to place them at the scene via paper records and convict via association
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/12/18148965-never-too-late-nazi-hunters-tirelessly-pursue-50-elderly-auschwitz-war-criminals?lite “Now in Germany, all of a sudden, all you have is one task – all you have to do is find people, because you can prove service with documents,” Zuroff said. “You don’t have to have someone who says, ‘I saw this b*****d kill my fellow inmate.’” He added: “Today, any job in a concentration camp can be sufficient evidence towards a conviction as accessory to murder." |
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 09:12 |
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Yeah but what if the guy just wanted a job? Maybe he was just the guy who cut the grass or drove a truck ?
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Dean
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 10:01 |
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Well, this guy didn't work in a camp, he didn't cut the grass, he didn't drive a truck - he commanded a unit of the Ukrainian Self-Defense Legion that wiped out entire Polish villages.
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 10:38 |
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Oh well here we go again. What is going on ? Is it open season on war crimminals?
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 10:54 |
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Would it be a bad thing if it were?
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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The T
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 11:08 |
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So now they are trying to portray this Snowden guy as a likely Chinese spy or something. I saw it yesterday even in CNN. It is just press demonizing and working for Big Brother or will it be true? Regardless, I prefer to know we are being watched (and read, and listened to - not that we didn't assume it anyway) than to ignore the fact.
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 11:10 |
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 11:33 |
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Absolutely shocking that people are calling for justice for 'war criminals' what is the world coming to?
Let them live a life of luxury I say. Surely there should be a point when any law abiding nazi should be allowed to enjoy their retirement from all that continuous goose stepping in peace? Leave them alone.
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tszirmay
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 12:22 |
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There is a difference between history (let it go) and
genocide. Humans are capable of incredible cruelty even to their own (Hello Pol
Pot) but mass murder is uncalled for and never to be forgotten. The Nazi ideology
is a fraudulent farce that was essentially based on one main political tenet =
vengeance for Versailles and nothing else. It needed to blame someone (unfortunately
the real culprit for Germany’s WW1 defeat is Paul Hindenburg) , so it went
about this purity argument which was laughable at best as the only blond and
blue eyed Aryan leader in the party was Reinhard Heydrich who was , of course
half-Jewish! There are neo-nazi sympathizers still active today, who have one
common denominator with each other, a complete lack of knowledge of their own history,
and having the cowardice to deny their crimes. At least Goering (the only one
at Nuremberg) admitted to the Holocaust which was not the case for the rest of
that fine crew. While fascism will
always be around, Nazi criminals must be at the very least identified and
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