The Last Nazi War Crime Trial

[Bronzeage]

A 95-year-old former medic at the Auschwitz death camp will go on trial next month on at least 3,681 counts of accessory to murder, German authorities said Monday.

This guy was 20 years old in 1940. It seems he is charged with being "aware of the purpose of the Birkenau camp as an extermination camp."

It will be interesting to see what evidence is presented against a 95 year old dementia patient. It's obvious the motives here are something beyond finding and punishing those responsible for the Holocaust.

I'm going to put this one in the "too little, too late, file. A show trial is a show trial.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Maybe someone's trying to force the court to conclude that there really was a Holocaust?

The court or someone in it?

 

[laughing dog]

A court ruled this man was fit to stand trial. This man should have already served his time for his conviction (assuming the sentence was not death). He doesn't deserve any sympathy in my view.

 

[J842P]

A 95-year-old former medic at the Auschwitz death camp will go on trial next month on at least 3,681 counts of accessory to murder, German authorities said Monday.

This guy was 20 years old in 1940. It seems he is charged with being "aware of the purpose of the Birkenau camp as an extermination camp."

It will be interesting to see what evidence is presented against a 95 year old dementia patient. It's obvious the motives here are something beyond finding and punishing those responsible for the Holocaust.

I'm going to put this one in the "too little, too late, file. A show trial is a show trial.

I've always thought the entire idea of trying the Nazi's in a court of law as by and large a show. It perhaps served some sort of cathartic, therapeutic, and symbolic need, but the trials themselves never made sense to me. Nazis didn't break any laws, indeed, the whole idea of laws make no sense in that context. It was wars between states, not states dealing with their internal affairs. By all means many should have been executed, probably even more, but the trial aspect is just silly.