02-09-2023, 01:59 PM
And so he should be, given the nature of those camps.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300...ation-camp
"A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945.
The charges were filed at the state court in Hanau, which will now have to decide whether to send the case to trial. If it does, he will be tried under juvenile law, taking account of his age at the time of the alleged crimes.
Charges of murder and being an accessory to murder aren’t subject to a statute of limitations under German law.
Tens of thousands died of starvation, disease, forced labour, and other causes, as well as through medical experiments and systematic SS extermination operations including shootings, hangings and gassing.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300...ation-camp
"A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945.
The German citizen, a resident of Main-Kinzig county near Frankfurt, is accused of having “supported the cruel and malicious killing of thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard detail,” prosecutors in Giessen said in a statement. They did not release the suspect’s name.
He is charged with more than 3300 counts of being an accessory to murder between July 1943 and February 1945.
The charges were filed at the state court in Hanau, which will now have to decide whether to send the case to trial. If it does, he will be tried under juvenile law, taking account of his age at the time of the alleged crimes.
Charges of murder and being an accessory to murder aren’t subject to a statute of limitations under German law.
More than 200,000 people were held at Sachsenhausen, just north of Berlin, between 1936 and 1945.
Tens of thousands died of starvation, disease, forced labour, and other causes, as well as through medical experiments and systematic SS extermination operations including shootings, hangings and gassing.
Exact numbers for those killed vary, with upper estimates of some 100,000, though scholars suggest figures of 40,000 to 50,000 are likely more accurate."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)