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That's the trouble with despots like Hitler who create situations in which hatred can be bred and exploited in order to manipulate ordinary people into the tools of monsters before they ever realise it. With so much death and horror everywhere it effectively becomes 'normal' with people desensitised to and/or in denial of the carnage around them.

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My father was in the SS.......:angel:

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My wife worked for the (DH)SS....

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Did she kill anyone? :D

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Just my hopes and dreams.....

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I hope no-one she knows sees that post :rofl:

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So was my grandma's first husband

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Me too.... :D

(Actually, she kept my hopes and dreams alive after my first marriage...)

Re: Auschwitz book-keeper Groening sentenced to four years
 

Hurray, we spent 70 years chasing an accountant, and finally we got him, and now this most evil of men has been sentanced to four years for his evil evil crimes (!).... what a fantastic use of money and resources .......

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They didn't spend 70 years chasing him. It's a combination of his public admissions of his involvement and a change in how these cases are seen.

Also as I mentioned before it would be wrong to see him as evil but that doesn't mean he couldn't do something wrong. The article I mentioned before has it right, calling them evil let's us dismiss them as inhuman and therefore we couldn't be capable of doing in the same thing if we found ourselves in the same circumstances.

As for the money and resources I think a lot of these investigations are funded and worked on by Holocaust campaign groups and the victims of it. They are currently trying to find remaining living concentration camp guards and workers before they all die. To them it is a fantastic use of money and resources. There isn't a time expiry other than the lifetime of those accused.

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Don't forget BMW, another reason to boycott them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/w...Nazi-past.html

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How far do you go to hunt them down?

What about the cook, or the guy who delivered food?

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It seems to me that the bloke only complained to his superior officers at the way the holocaust happened not that it was happening .After witnessing the murder of an infant he complained to his superior that if the extermination of the Jews must happen "then at least it should be done within a certain framework" .The question has to be asked ,would he have behaved any different if he had a choice

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Some questions have no answers sadly - some guilty folks go free and some innocent folks are punished.

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This pretty much.

It appears they have in fact spent time and money chasing this guy.

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Think how many people were fine with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht before the war had even started. It's horrific how, as Osem said above, desensitised people became.