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In reply to the discussion: Index card found in sunken ship helps implicate former Nazi concentration camp guard living in Tenne [View all]BigDemVoter
(4,698 posts)My great grandmother and great aunt were murdered somewhere in Poland; we never found out anything other than the name of a ghetto, Izbica.
Just from the heartbreak and misery these people have caused not only for those killed but also for those who survived, I don't think there should ever be a statute of limitation. I don't find it far fetched or draconian at all. This gentleman may be 94-years-old, but he was old enough to know better at the time, and I can guarantee if he was a guard at Neuengamme, he was brutal. I don't think Neuengamme was a true "extermination" camp (the kind where they gassed people), but I think it was a labor camp where they worked almost everybody to death.
These people never should have been allowed in this country in the first place. I'm talking about how the American government looked the other way regarding certain individuals' Nazi pasts if they had some kind of scientific knowledge to contribute, even if this scientific knowledge was obtained by "questionable" means.
The only thing that makes me sad about this is that the old man is too old to spend much time in jail. I wish I believed in hell, as this would give me great satisfaction. . .