[Henndigo]

The argument was, was it a choice? its very well to say that I wouldn't have chosen that, until you are faced with the situation you wouldn't know.

He could have confessed after the war had ended, expressed remorse and then served his time if he was just a helpless victim of the time. But he remained silent and investigators obviously tracked him down. I vote camp rot.

[Flibbertigibbert...]

La Di Dah, I am sorry for what your aunt went through, I can't even begin to imagine what it must have been like for her and the millions of others who suffered, I hope she is at peace now.

My extended family buried a Holocaust survivor this year. I say extended because she was my aunt by marriage but I grew up thinking of her as a third grandma. She was very frail and she was very lonely in her old age because she didn't have the extended family and siblings and stuff the other older women in her retirement community had.

She was desperately sad that the other old women would ask her about her siblings/cousins. She hadn't had any for sixty years. Neither had her husband. He died when I was five. She never remarried.

She was quite old and frail too.

I'm imagining telling her that because somebody managed to not pay for sixty years that they deserve to have the same gentle retirement she does. After all, they're old now.

So are the families of their victims, the widows, the children? Might as well give them maybe a year of solace.

[Guest_holy_j_*]

He could have confessed after the war had ended, expressed remorse and then served his time if he was just a helpless victim of the time. But he remained silent and investigators obviously tracked him down. I vote camp rot.

you didn't read that in context. I already stated my opinion on this man, and this incidence, ''tis now starting to spill over into "they"",""all members of the germany army", ""german citizens" and it is simply just not that black and white.

[la di dah]

La Di Dah, I am sorry for what your aunt went through, I can't even begin to imagine what it must have been like for her and the millions of others who suffered, I hope she is at peace now.

Thank you. I hope you don't think I was attacking you. I was just trying to explain my feelings on the "long ago" quality of it.

[Guest_Spring Chickadee_*]

I dunno, I just think of a 90year old man sitting in a gaol cell.

That is the decision he made for himself. In the same way that a person with a physical disability should still serve the punishment for a crime they knowingly commit. Just because they are impaired does not mean they are less accountable.

Actions have consequences- doesn't matter how old you are you still need to face the music!

This post has been edited by Spring Chickadee: 16/12/2011, 03:07 PM