Concentration Camp Guard Convicted

[Paigntonian]

Great.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/28/nazi-court-case-oldest-concentration-camp-guard-on-trial-101-jailed-16903347/

[jno]

good, I guess. Eighty years ago would have been more satisfying.

[Mozz71]

I agree with jno. Shame it wasn't when he was much younger. It seems somewhat hollow jailing him at his age.

[Paigntonian]

I just hope that he has a terrible time in jail. Imagine what his victims went through.

[Mozz71]

Agreed.

[Peter Pedant]

Not keen
Even the sixties was a bit late for convictions
Now is far too late for oral testimony

see any documentary about Ivan Demjanjuk
In then end, the prosecution was reduced to saying - "OK we havent shown any of the indictment, but we KNOW he was a very bad man" - judges threw the indictment out

[douglas9401]

It'll all be over soon enough though.

[Paigntonian]

But Demjanjuk was guilty, albeit cleared of original charges and then convicted of others.

[goodgoalie]

He should not have been allowed to cover his face.

[youngmafbog]

Never too late.

[lady-janine]

Good. Justice for his victims at last.

[Peter Pedant]

// Demjanjuk was guilty, albeit cleared of original charges //
erm yeah OK, I am in nice guy mode today
so guilty and not guilty at the same time....

second batch - failing to pick up chewing gum?
He was certainly indicted for lying on his immigration form and stripped of citizenship

and I will plead bad memory - the main point I am making, that it is far too long ago for oral testimony is that I thought M. Verges was involved - but it was other war crimes he got involved in

M Verges ( very complicated point, but what the hell) ran the to quoque defence ( That is more Latin for kai su Brute!) - Which Goering ran unsuccessfully ( 'me war crimes? look what the allies were doing in Japan!" )

defended Butcher of Lyon ( battery acid into mens bladders)

[Peter Pedant]

// Never too late.//
yes too late - turn your brayne on YMF

Justice as Lord hewart said so wisely in 1924 needs to be seen to be done. - - Justice delayed is justice stayed.

Cases this far from the event inevitably involve memory loss

Demjanjuk - One Witness (A)eloquently described how D ( the defendant that is!) made someone crawl into a furnace alive.

then later in the case A was confronted with a film of 1946 where A says he killed Ivan the terrible with his bare hands....
and A says. - yeah but that was someone different !

Defence says - - noooooo - - you said it was the defendant

The case survives that....

It also survives ( just ) this pass ( yeah) the photo has clip holes where the paper hasnt
( yeah so what)
Defence: it shows the photo has been recycled and we say its first use is innocent and this pass is a forgery....

Case limps on, and is abandoned soon ( like a few weeks) after

[sandyRoe]

The last people into the gas chambers should have been the guards who were captured when the death camps were overrun.

[youngmafbog]

//yes too late - turn your brayne on YMF//

Mine is functioning perfectly thank you, unlike yours that spews gibberish and insults at all and sundry.