101-Year-Old Former Nazi Camp Guard Jailed for 5 Years

[WillBrink]

Saw this on FB, and one response was:

"He isn’t a threat. He isn’t going to run. He has had to carry what he has done all these years. This isn’t a punishment just a waste of tax money"

My response to that BS was:

"So get old enough to not face any penalties if when caught? Let the monster and psychopaths know if they can avoid being found long enough they will get away with it? They should know that they will NEVER be able to sleep or not be looking over their shoulder as long as they live, and once found, a bullet to their brain and and un marked grave is what awaits them. It's with your attitude we are doomed to repeat such things over and over."

Morons...

101-Year-Old Former Nazi Camp Guard Jailed for 5 Years

Josef Schuetz was convicted of being complicit in the murder of 3,518 people. He's the oldest person to ever go on trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k89...z-germany-nazi

[joe138]

Your response is right on target.

[WillBrink]

Your response is right on target.

People like that are the problem. Utterly disgusting response. I can't even fathom how those who lost family members in those camps would feel seeing such a response. Personally, always been dismayed we didn't spend more time and effort tracking everyone of those mother f-ers down and ending them on the spot. We knew and know where most of them went, in our own back yard down south, and didn't pursue them to the end of the earth.

I "get" the attitude that the war was over, the world just wanted to move on, most of the high ranking Nazi's prosecuted, etc, none of it works for me as to allowing a single one to exist. The only thing such creatures understand as to the message it does not pay to do such things, is they will never sleep or be at ease as long as they breath.

[The Dumb Gun Collector]

I remember when I was a little kid I was really into World War II —it was in the news that Joseph Mengele had died by drowning or something. I would’ve been like 10 years old and I remember I was talking to this old ww2 vet with my dad and the vet was saying they needed to quit wasting time hunting down these old men. I was sort of agreeing with him and then my dad said “to hell with that these bastards need to burn.” My dad was right.

[WillBrink]

I remember when I was a little kid I was really into World War II —it was in the news that Joseph Mengele had died by drowning or something. I would’ve been like 10 years old and I remember I was talking to this old ww2 vet with my dad and the vet was saying they needed to quit wasting time hunting down these old men. I was sort of agreeing with him and then my dad said “to hell with that these bastards need to burn.” My dad was right.

In my view, he was per comments in #3. There can be no rest for such people, and any thing else is being complicit in future such events, plenty of which took place after WWII and "never again" didn't amount to jack chit, perhaps partly due to the fact every psycho knew and knows there's a very good likelihood they will in fact get away with it I suspect.

[CRAMBONE]

What boggles my mind is there was never the same effort put into Japanese war criminals.

[WillBrink]

What boggles my mind is there was never the same effort put into Japanese war criminals.

Yes, indeed, a whole other topic of importance!

[ddbtoth]

What boggles my mind is there was never the same effort put into Japanese war criminals.

They certainly make a better ally now than the Germans. But yeah, the Japanese were much crueler than the Germans, just not as efficient.

[WillBrink]

They certainly make a better ally now than the Germans. But yeah, the Japanese were much crueler than the Germans, just not as efficient.

And most people have no clue the Japanese made the Germans look like quire boys, and while the Germans fessed up to it and dealt with their national shame etc, the Japanese to this day teach an alternative history and many think we dropped those nukes on them due to being imperialist meany heads.

[SteyrAUG]

What boggles my mind is there was never the same effort put into Japanese war criminals.

Complicated names, hard to remember and they all look alike.

More importantly "we" were complicit. We got a "conditional" unconditional surrender which left the emperor in place as a symbolic leader and we participated in the fiction that he was in no way connected to war crimes and had no knowledge of any done in his name. This is of course absurd as he knew everything so we couldn't convict a lot of people without going up a ladder that ended with him.

Even worse when it came to atrocities at the most severe level like Unit 731, we wanted their data, so we gave complete immunity to Shiro Ishi and everyone else involved as a trade. Keep in mind these people engaged in live dissection of children so they could track the progress of their bio weapons. It's one of the most shameful things the US ever did and it goes at least as high as MacArthur.

There should be no statute of limitations on this shit. My only concern is, do we actually have a guy who did something more than guard the gate? Because we let a LOT of people go in Germany, during the 40s who did much more than just guard the gate. Hell we employed some of them. But 5 years is light compared to what happened to those people in those camps so if he did more than guard the gate, he had it coming.

Also somebody mentioned Mengele, sadly he lived to the age of 67, pretty much in the open with family visiting and died of natural causes.