NBCNews.com Former Auschwitz Guard Reinhold Hanning Convicted on 170000 Counts of Accessory to Murder
nbcnews.com/news/world/former-auschwitz-guard...Posted Jun 17, 2016, 12:49 PM UTC
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In America if you commit 170,000 murders they build you a Presidential Library.
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No doubt if the Germans had won the war, he would be eligible for such an honor.
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I'm deeply torn between saying how ridiculous it is when someone gets only 5 years for being an accessory to 170,000 murders, and 70 years later they can pin the holocaust on one man who was doing what he was forced to do. Both scenarios seem ridiculous to me.
That's a life sentence for a 94 year old in prison.
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You educate the youth about the genocide, the same way they did for my generation. Charging him for this doesn't set anymore example than what they taught us in school. This just seems like a which hunt, trying to hold someone accountable for something he was forced to do.
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One man trying to morally stand against the Nazi's was not going to happen, he would have been thrown in the same gas chambers, and replaced by a cooperative officer.
His position as a SS-Totenkopfverbände was voluntary.