Yup, I hope it doesn't happen. He was probably involved in some bad shit. But it was a very long time ago, and sending someone essentially a century old to prison is pretty fucked up. He's not going to reoffend...although the mental picture is hilarious. Genocidal ancient grandpa...what does he think he is, in government or something?
I don't care. If you're a Nazi or a communist or whatever, and you're a hundred years old, you should get a pass. Just like that concentration camp secretary lady should have gotten. Nazis did bad shit, but hunting down the Nazis and Nazi-adjacent from way back when is pretty messed up, in my opinion.
I love that this happened with the Canadians, because it's fucking hilarious, but I hope there's no legal blowback on this guy. If they are serious about extradition, I hope lawyers can drag it out until he dies naturally, at least. Leave the dude along, except to use him to laugh at the retarded libs.
The reason our ancestors allowed soldiers to put down their rifles and go home was to prevent wars from becoming Total Wars.
I'm not sure you're right there. Total war is the mobilization of the entire society, which is a development starting in 1793 with the levee-en-masse of the French Revolution - at least in modern times.
I think you mean: soldiers are allowed to surrender, because otherwise they would fight to the death. And that is indeed a very good reason to take prisoners and to treat them humanely. Like Sun Tzu said: make a golden bridge for your enemy's retreat.
That said, I fully support the Americans who committed the war crime of killing the camp guards at Dachau. SS soldiers were bad guys almost to a man (some were forcibly conscripted, so not all) and should not have been allowed to surrender, but obviously, great powers don't care about morality of any kind.
It's barely a step away from those old court trials where a corpse was dug up and put on trial for their crimes against the Kingdom. The flailing of an illegitimate power.
If any specific crimes can credibly be attributed to him, that's one thing, and then I really don't care that "that was like four days ago, five days ago". But if it's trying to prosecute him for being a member for an organization that they don't like, even a heinous and criminal one like the SS, that's quite a different matter.
Yup, I hope it doesn't happen. He was probably involved in some bad shit. But it was a very long time ago, and sending someone essentially a century old to prison is pretty fucked up. He's not going to reoffend...although the mental picture is hilarious. Genocidal ancient grandpa...what does he think he is, in government or something?
I don't care. If you're a Nazi or a communist or whatever, and you're a hundred years old, you should get a pass. Just like that concentration camp secretary lady should have gotten. Nazis did bad shit, but hunting down the Nazis and Nazi-adjacent from way back when is pretty messed up, in my opinion.
I love that this happened with the Canadians, because it's fucking hilarious, but I hope there's no legal blowback on this guy. If they are serious about extradition, I hope lawyers can drag it out until he dies naturally, at least. Leave the dude along, except to use him to laugh at the retarded libs.
The reason our ancestors allowed soldiers to put down their rifles and go home was to prevent wars from becoming Total Wars.
The end result of this will be that all wars against the GAE will become Total Wars.
I'm not sure you're right there. Total war is the mobilization of the entire society, which is a development starting in 1793 with the levee-en-masse of the French Revolution - at least in modern times.
I think you mean: soldiers are allowed to surrender, because otherwise they would fight to the death. And that is indeed a very good reason to take prisoners and to treat them humanely. Like Sun Tzu said: make a golden bridge for your enemy's retreat.
That said, I fully support the Americans who committed the war crime of killing the camp guards at Dachau. SS soldiers were bad guys almost to a man (some were forcibly conscripted, so not all) and should not have been allowed to surrender, but obviously, great powers don't care about morality of any kind.
It's barely a step away from those old court trials where a corpse was dug up and put on trial for their crimes against the Kingdom. The flailing of an illegitimate power.
If any specific crimes can credibly be attributed to him, that's one thing, and then I really don't care that "that was like four days ago, five days ago". But if it's trying to prosecute him for being a member for an organization that they don't like, even a heinous and criminal one like the SS, that's quite a different matter.