Germans assuage their guilt by persecuting an 89 year old retired autoworker.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for prosecution if the Germans can produce some shred of incontrovertible evidence... fingerprints, DNA perhaps, but no one can convince me "beyond a reasonable doubt", that a 67 year old photograph and a parade of 90 year old witnesses who haven't seen the suspect in 66 years are evidence (Sobibor was closed in 1943).
Having first been identified as Ivan the Terrible, he was tried and sentenced to death in Israel, that is until the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the conviction after incontrovertible evidence emerged that he was not Ivan the Terrible, Ivan the Mean perhaps, or Ivan the Grumpy, but certainly not Ivan the Terrible.
The way I figure it, they had their shot, they failed, what are they going to do? Keep accusing him of being a different person until they get a conviction? One is left wondering why our government and court system continues to allow this travesty to go on. What? There are no Germans left to try and convict?
That is another case to be made too, Germany seems more than willing to go after foreigners accused of being Nazi collaborators, yet their own record at convicting Nazis is dismally absurd, only 7,000 convictions in 90,000 trials held since the end of World War II. Gee.... outside of those killed by the Allies, tried and convicted by the allies... I am supposed to believe that only 7,000 Nazis managed to survive the war? Look to your grandparents and great-grandparents if you want to atone.
Thousands of Nazi scientists in the fields of biological warfare, chemical warfare, submarine technology, rockets, aviation, etc. were divided up among the allied powers with some 1600 alone coming to America. What? An autoworker isn't good enough?
Funny, how after the war, there were very few Nazis. The Germans are left like a small child with chocolate smeared on their hands and face muttering "it wasn't me". Sorry, I don't buy it with my kids, I don't buy it from you.
I am disappointed in my government and the Justice Department for allowing not only allowing this farcical travesty to continue, but in enabling it. The war has been over for 64 years, any incontrovertible evidence is most likely long gone yet the witch trials continue.
Peace!
~Finntann~
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They're charging him with something like 30,000 murders. Can you imagine? That must get you at least 10 years in liberal Germany...
"That must get you at least 10 years in liberal Germany..." Such a great place to get together and plan atrocities and always has been. Judging by their continued propensity to be romanced by Fascists even today seeing their Hitler like turnout for Obama seems like Deja Vu all over again,
As for Demjanjuk this is their lame way of saying they did their part to issue death sentences and in guy's case that'll be about a month at 89 and being incarcerated 50 years after the foggy fact. Go Bama
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