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    DangerBadgerHudson Hongo
    2/16/15 8:35pm

    At age 93, I doubt he gives a shit.

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      SugarHilDangerBadger
      2/16/15 8:43pm

      Really? At 93 I bet he's fucking pissed because he probably figured he'd gotten away with it. I hope he spent the last 60 years carefully hiding it from everyone he knows. He probably expected to die without ever being punished and was looking forward to living the rest of his life drinking prune juice in a rocking chair.

      May he live to be 118 behind bars.

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      cuntybawsDangerBadger
      2/16/15 8:44pm

      I suspect that self-preservation and wish not to be held accountable is an instinct that runs deep even in the oldest of these murderous bastards.

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    VwolfHudson Hongo
    2/16/15 8:40pm

    What is this for? He's 93. He already lived a full life. You'll send him to jail for a few short years and then he'll die. Nothing will have changed.

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      special_k_sideVwolf
      2/16/15 9:04pm

      What I wonder about, is how one person can be held accountable for 170,000 deaths? The person in question may have been under orders to do this. His only recourse was to obey, or be killed. For his sake he knew that someone else would take the job on. Many may have died at his orders, but many more would have died otherwise. Not saying killing people in any way is good. This is pure retribution. Now, if he was caught red-handed......then things may change.

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      Gimme a beetVwolf
      2/16/15 9:07pm

      He will never serve a day in prison. He will probably die before trial. However, Nethenyahu will bring this up when someone dares to criticize war crimes in Gaza or theft of land in the West Bank.

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    carlinemomHudson Hongo
    2/16/15 8:40pm

    Privacy laws???

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      Gemmabetacarlinemom
      2/16/15 8:43pm

      It's so that if a suspect turns out to be innocent, you don't ruin his life because of the media circus.

      The Germans take the innocent until proven guilty business seriously.

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      KittyReavenGemmabeta
      2/16/15 9:08pm

      If you watch media, corrections to reporting are rarely the front page issue, since if your media source has made a giant deal of a case for months, you're going to look like a freaking idiot if your reporting was entirely wrong.

      So there's a tendency to push things like peoples innocence to last page articles that no one reads so that it doesn't hurt business.

      Even if you're innocent, being the target of a case like this will leave people asking you about it for the rest of your life. It's almost a sort of indirect emotional abuse by media sources.

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    LordCucufaceHudson Hongo
    2/16/15 11:39pm

    My father in law was in the first group of American soldiers to enter Buchenwald. For 68 years he was unable to talk about what he saw. He took photos and I have seen them and it's hard to take in that he held the camera that took the photo that I had in my hand. The horrid unimaginable photos. He died at 93 years old and it never left him for a second. He was not the same person when he returned. My husbands childhood was damaged because of what his father saw and his inability, and in many ways unwillingness, to get help for himself afterwards. He lived a very long time and became a successful businessman and a well known performer and yet his time in the war is what defined him. It damaged him and a generation of his family that came afterwards. Even a second generation now.

    My previous next door neighbor and his wife both survived a camp. One survived a death march and the other from being burned alive in a barn with 100+ other Jews. Both lost their entire families. When I became Jewish I took that neighbors mothers name as my Jewish name as a tribute to her. His mother was murdered in front of him at the gates of Auschwitz. My neighbor was 85 years old and collapsed in tears and joy when I honored his mother. Every time I saw him he'd put my face in his hands and start crying with a smile on his face and sob things in Polish. He is gone now too.

    If that Nazi lives one day after he is found guilty then that is something. He has been found out and exposed. I wish it happened 70 years ago but if he has one breath left in him it's still in time.

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      chattygalLordCucuface
      2/17/15 1:25am

      Responding to promote.

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      MissBitchLordCucuface
      2/17/15 1:35am

      This. Thank you.

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    TraceHudson Hongo
    2/16/15 8:43pm

    has been charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder for his role as a guard at Auschwitz concentration camp.

    This morbidly makes me wonder who holds the record for the amount of 'counts' held against them now. That's a whole lot of counts. At 93 though, I imagine he won't have too long to spend in prison.

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      ItsaClawWorldTrace
      2/16/15 8:52pm

      "Accessory to murder" seems like a tricky one to rack up. Murder, yes. Probably Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, etc could be charged with murders in the millions. But accessory?

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      Wishbone of ArcTrace
      2/16/15 8:54pm

      Himmler? idk

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    ninjajuicerHudson Hongo
    2/16/15 9:03pm

    As a polish/Israeli Jew, I lost untold family during WW2. It's nice to see justice being served, but really, he's 93, more than enough time has passed to rightly move on. This is akin to tracking down Hiroshima survivors and suing the U.S.

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      starcrunchninjajuicer
      2/16/15 9:13pm

      Well said. Charge the guy who flew the Enola Gay with mass murder too. Or the US presient who made the order. What about Clinton who ordered the bombings in Yugoslavia in 1999?

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      ratchedninjajuicer
      2/16/15 9:19pm

      My DIL is from Poland (Best DIL in the world!). Her mom comes here pretty often and a lot of their family went through horrors of the Holocaust. (They don't want to talk about it though, so I don't know the extent.)

      I am so sorry about the losses your family endured.

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    kaysey17Hudson Hongo
    2/16/15 8:56pm

    Not to make light of the gravitas of the sitch, but could you *imagine* being the person that had to keep track of all the charges against this guy!? That's some HEAVY stuff, right there!

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      Gimme a beetkaysey17
      2/16/15 9:03pm

      The filing alone would be a nightmare!

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      kaysey17Gimme a beet
      2/16/15 9:54pm

      I know! *HOW* long would it take to do all of that AND keep track of every, single one?
      To be honest, I know *nothing* about the legalities of things like that, but it sounds like a nightmare of epic proportions taking decades upon decades...so, yeah. A seriously long time of tracking every. single. traumatizing. thing. that happened.

      Whoever's job that was *deserves* an EPIC vacation on the company's dime. But I'm betting they might be dead by now. This story just keeps getting more dismal by the minute. ◕︵◕

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    KomradKickassHudson Hongo
    2/16/15 8:38pm

    Those are some Cosby Numbers.

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      mousebasketHudson Hongo
      2/16/15 8:42pm

      I am of the opinion that, at this point, let us show them the mercy that they could not/would not/did not.

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        NATHANJUNI0Rmousebasket
        2/16/15 9:16pm

        He's going to be housed in relative comfort (compared to his victims), adequately fed, given a fair trial, and probably die of natural causes. Seems merciful enough to me.

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        estoyusandoelinternetmousebasket
        2/16/15 9:22pm

        Being allowed to die of old age in prison will be far more mercy than they showed.

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      poshbygoshHudson Hongo
      2/16/15 10:46pm

      Yes the holocaust was a tragedy, abomination, etc, etc. but there have been other genocides, other atrocities. Why can't we ("the world") stop wasting time prosecuting 93 year old offenders and just work to make the world better, work on stopping things that are happening now? This seems like a waste of energy and resources.

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        IkerCatsillasposhbygosh
        2/16/15 11:14pm

        But by refusing to call Holocaust settled history, we are working to make the world a better place. As laughably feeble as the international system for dealing with genocides is, that it exists at all is a testament to the strength of the memory of the Holocaust. That system rests on the premise that justice for atrocities has no expiration date — which is why Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic are on trial today for acts committed in the 1990s.

        Furthermore, much of the sociological insight we have into how and why these events occur comes from the Holocaust. Even today, there are still things we're learning about this period; just recently, for example, a study was published showing that the network of labor, concentration and extermination camps was much more extensive than we thought. This kind of work is important and can help give insight on contemporary genocide.

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