The multitude of Holocaust museums (including quite a number in the US) and half of the German nation suffering under Communism was never enough I reckon?
Nuremberg and additional trials of the time only convicted 179 people (with 37 of those being executed), but I guess we need to be hunting those who were SS members from a lifetime ago now? Statue of limitations, buddy.
(Edit: The number leaves out the other warcrime trials, like for Dachau etc, contemporary and long ex post facto, but it should be noted that a lot arrested didn't see trial)
I don't support prosecuting this man for mere affiliation with the SS, but are you seriously arguing that mass murderers should not be punished because some museums were erected to their crimes?
I didn't know that if 1/4 of Germans suffer under communism, that somehow pardons mass murders committed by Ukrainians. I guess Stalin is now pardoned because 100% of Germans and 40% of Soviets suffered under Nazism.
That's not what I was arguing. I was arguing against someone being persecuted by simple association.
As I said, I agree with that - unless evidence of serious crimes comes up.
Maybe I prefaced it badly, but don't put words in my mouth.
My bad if I misread you, but I still think it is a pretty weird argument. Surely, the existence of holocaust museums has nothing at all to do with whether or not it's a good idea to prosecute this man. Maybe you meant: this is symbolic, maybe it'd have been a point worth making if people were very uninformed, but they're not and a good deal of attention is paid to it, citing ...
The multitude of Holocaust museums (including quite a number in the US) and half of the German nation suffering under Communism was never enough I reckon?
Nuremberg and additional trials of the time only convicted 179 people (with 37 of those being executed), but I guess we need to be hunting those who were SS members from a lifetime ago now? Statue of limitations, buddy.
(Edit: The number leaves out the other warcrime trials, like for Dachau etc, contemporary and long ex post facto, but it should be noted that a lot arrested didn't see trial)
I don't support prosecuting this man for mere affiliation with the SS, but are you seriously arguing that mass murderers should not be punished because some museums were erected to their crimes?
I didn't know that if 1/4 of Germans suffer under communism, that somehow pardons mass murders committed by Ukrainians. I guess Stalin is now pardoned because 100% of Germans and 40% of Soviets suffered under Nazism.
That's not what I was arguing. I was arguing against someone being persecuted by simple association.
Maybe I prefaced it badly, but don't put words in my mouth.
As I said, I agree with that - unless evidence of serious crimes comes up.
My bad if I misread you, but I still think it is a pretty weird argument. Surely, the existence of holocaust museums has nothing at all to do with whether or not it's a good idea to prosecute this man. Maybe you meant: this is symbolic, maybe it'd have been a point worth making if people were very uninformed, but they're not and a good deal of attention is paid to it, citing ...
You can't say this guy was simply "associated" when there are pictures of him with the regiment armed and reports of him participating in the battles.
Maybe the reports aren't accurate, but he wasn't the supply clerk.