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I can't figure out why I'm on the fence about pursuing this guy. He was clearly engaged in, what I'd call, the most evil period in human history. And I'm not directly affected by the Holocaust in any way so it's tough for me to relate too closely to it. He's lived his life, post Holocaust, without any real problems and at 94 years old, what kind of justice is it going to be to just lock him up until he dies which is right around the corner. . . I'd be more willing to hang him up if his role was pushing jews in the gas chambers or some other torture related crime. But his role was handling paperwork. It's an accessory crime in my mind and it seems like the statute of limitations should apply in this case.
I do wonder what his position would have been if they had asked to help him with the "extermination" process.
I can't figure out why I'm on the fence about pursuing this guy. He was clearly engaged in, what I'd call, the most evil period in human history. And I'm not directly affected by the Holocaust in any way so it's tough for me to relate too closely to it. He's lived his life, post Holocaust, without any real problems and at 94 years old, what kind of justice is it going to be to just lock him up until he dies which is right around the corner. . . I'd be more willing to hang him up if his role was pushing jews in the gas chambers or some other torture related crime. But his role was handling paperwork. It's an accessory crime in my mind and it seems like the statute of limitations should apply in this case.
I do wonder what his position would have been if they had asked to help him with the "extermination" process.
It's only been in the last couple of years, that my father has spoken of what he witnessed as a young boy in those times. Not pretty, and something no child should ever have to witness. One year to young to be inducted into the Hitler Youth, by wars end. "Happy Birthday son, here's a PanzerFaust. Go take out that Sherman. Heil Hitler!" Easy to sit in judgement, 70 years after the end of the war.
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I've done quite a bit of research on the Holocaust and visited a museum we have in Dallas. It's such a sobering experience. Dr. Mengele is the guy I wish we would have captured before he died. . . That guy is quite possibly more evil than Hitler. Pure evil doesn't even scratch the surface of what that guy did. Some of the experiments he performed were just inexplicable. Makes you wonder how he slept at night without having nightmares.
What's odd is that we got many medical advances from some of the experiments they performed in Auschwitz. Unfortunately, we were unable to find most of his research journals.
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