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Originally Posted by adzii_nufc
No, I'm saying punishing a 94 year old bloke for following orders is ludicrous. He hasn't evaded anything. He's never hidden. He's played a minimal part in this supposed 'War Machine' A lot of people were simply soldiers, forced into doing a job or face the consequences, we're quick to forget about that and brand them as fascist pigs instead.
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Well he joined the SS voluntary. Also soldiers don't get prosecuted but instead people who facilitated the Holocaust do. Most Nazi War Criminals were following orders from somewhere, such a scenario would mean all but the leaders at the very top would be spared conviction for what they did. Do you think the people managing the camps weren't following orders?
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Do your job and then be hunted for the next 70 years or die. What an amazing system. We're quickly taught to believe everyone that lived in Nazi Germany was automatically a racist ignorant fascist murderer.
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You are not being taught that but rather even if someone wasn't a 'racist ignorant fascist murderer' that they're still reasonable for their actions. You don't have to be evil to have done bad things.
This guy wasn't directly killing anyone, seemed repulsed by what happened and even argued against Holocaust denial more recently but he still helped in the running of the camps at the time and he knew full well what they were doing.
I can see why this case splits people but to suggest that the prosecution of former Nazi War Criminals is being done by 'do-gooders' and it should be 'left-alone' is pretty ignorant. You're also wrong to assume that to do this means you're branding everyone as 'racist ignorant fascist murderer'. It doesn't work that way.