Man, 100, charged in Germany over 3,518 Nazi concentration camp murders

[mysteryowl]

Source: The Guardian/US

German prosecutors have charged a 100-year-old man with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served during the second world war as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin.

The man is alleged to have worked at the Sachsenhausen camp between 1942 and 1945 as an enlisted member of the Nazi party’s paramilitary wing, said Cyrill Klement, who led the investigation of the centenarian for the Neuruppin prosecutors’ office.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/09/man-100-charged-in-germany-over-3518-nazi-concentration-camp-murders

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Wow! Nazi SS killers are still being tracked down and prosecuted! Impressive!

[Cirque du So-What]

1. I'm reminded of the adage, 'justice delayed is justice denied'

I'm glad this nazi will finally get justice, but it's a travesty that he lived all these years without consequence. Is it wrong to hope that he lived in fear of apprehension all these years?

[ret5hd]

5. Not that it is sufficient, but...

he probably lived EVERY DAY wondering “Is today the day?”

[Irish_Dem]

2. Maybe one day Trump will be charged with his crimes.

And be found guilty, justice will be served at long last.

[Talitha]

3. Hopefully he was tormented by damning nightmares.

[Dawson Leery]

4. As long as they are alive, they will be hunted down.

[canetoad]

6. I used to be ambivalent

About near-centenarians being prosecuted for WW2 crimes. However, the SS did not conscript it's members. Those who served were willing volunteers for the job of being the enforcement arm of the Nazi party.

The Waffen SS was a partial exception.

"After the war, in the Nuremberg Trials, the Waffen-SS was condemned as a criminal organisation owing to its essential connection to the Party and its involvement in war crimes and the Holocaust, however Waffen-SS conscripts sworn in after 1943 were exempted from the judgement owing to their involuntary servitude."

http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/waffen-ss_foreign_volunteers_and_conscripts

[riversedge]

7. Interesting. thanks for post.

[Solly Mack]

8. Good. I think war criminals should be prosecuted no matter how long it takes.

[colsohlibgal]

9. Yes Never Too Late

It is a shame he got to live free all these years, something his victims were denied.

[backroadblast]

10. germany knows what to do with war criminals

there's so many out and about walking free in the U.S., instead they are celebrated and pardoned....its disgusting

we could learn a lesson or two from them.