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And? It's like saying we should prosecute Wehrmacht soldiers because they served in an army that committed atrocities. It's absurd.There are obviously points of comparison as well as very real differences. But if you want to argue that in war time it is illegal to round up civilians for any reason then we should prosecute the guards at the Jap internment camps as well. The British rounded up German nationals in WW2 as well. Perhaps they should be prosecuted too.So we should prosecute the people who worked at the Japanese internment camps too?So Germany is putting a 93yr old man on trial for his role during the war at Auschwitz. His job was to collect money from the arriving Jews, most of whom were killed within hours of arrival.
My question is, is this really worthwhile? They will spend large amounts of money to prosecute an elderly man because he was basically in the wrong place at the wrong time on the wrong side. If he were complicit in raids that killed Jews or helped round them up, sure. Not much of an issue. But he has lived openly in Germany since the war and spoken about his role.
What will they punish him with? Life in prison? That's absurd for a 93yr old.
The best thing they could do is take a complete oral history from him of what exactly he did, why he did it, what the circumstances were, what he remembers from it and everything else they can think of. Then keep that oral history along with the other trillions of documents from that era to demonstrate to future generations that yes it really happened and here's why and here's why we cant let it happen again.
This, and other roles in the concentration camp system has no place in modern warfare so can see a need to prosecute such participants. They weren't acting in a soldier's role and soldier's around the world would take exception to them using that as a defense. They were simply criminals and thus should be prosecuted as criminals.
Is no comparison between American Japanese internment camps and Nazi concentration camps. Anyone attempting to make such a comparison is only revealing their utter lack of knowledge of the two.
He didn’t work at a camp that rounded up people for any reason. He worked at a camp that rounded up people to burn and torture them to death in horrific ways.