Posted by NCWayne on May 25, 2014 at 19:55:28 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: totally OT, but... posted by JRSutton on May 25, 2014 at 07:22:06:
Personally I think the whole deal about the Nazi war crimes, etc was started with good intentions, and against those really guilty of being blatantly evil. Unfortunatly those types of cases went too quickly for some, and in the time since, the whole mess been played for all it's worth, in the name of being PC, all to make a small number of people feel avenged.
That said I can't see where being a guard in a prison makes someone a war criminal, regardless of what happened in the camp. These guys had a job they were ordered to do, and they did it, no different than the guy guarding the Japanese internment camps here in the US. Yes, the conditions were different between the two camps was a lot different, but the jobs of the guards was the same.
Now if you take the ones like Joseph Mengele that happily did deadly experiments on live subjects, gassed millions, etc, etc, then they were, and are criminals. Yes, they may have had 'orders' to do some things, but it was the manner in which they did them that makes what they did criminal. In other words they went about it with pleasure, and got great joy over being sadistic, while the guys talked about here, were simply doing what their country had ordered them to do under risk of their families being killed, etc, etc.
In the end, it's two way different scenarios, and I think the guys they are after now should be left alone, and left in peace to die. I'm sure anyone ever in a war zone, and in combat has done things they weren't proud of, or weren't happy having had to do something, but did, because they had received a lawful order so do so. I don't see them being tried for war crimes, so why should these guys be any different simply because they were considered Nazis, and not Army, Navy, or Marines from this country, or some other.
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