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Originally Posted by Paul M
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.