http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110512/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_demjanjuk
i thought this to be very interesting, seeing as the man is 91 years old anyways, what's the point of sentencing him? he's 91, likely dead in less than 9 years either way.
i personally think there's no point in pursuing the lower staff such as common soldiers/guards/etc. it's better to nail the officers/high-ups who were truly behind it all, which they already have.
after reading the above text, i thought about the way Germany censors many video games that contain nazi-affiliated images/etc. like Wolfenstein, which is banned from legal sale in german territory. i think they're ashamed of their history a bit too much. my personal beliefs are "if one makes mistakes, they should live with it and learn from it" the same should go for a whole country as well as it goes for a single person.
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i thought this to be very interesting, seeing as the man is 91 years old anyways, what's the point of sentencing him? he's 91, likely dead in less than 9 years either way.
MUNICH – A German court convicted retired U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk on Thursday of taking part in the murder of tens of thousands of Jews as a Nazi death camp guard, breaking legal ground that could pave the way for the prosecution of many low-level cogs in Hitler's machinery of destruction.
i personally think there's no point in pursuing the lower staff such as common soldiers/guards/etc. it's better to nail the officers/high-ups who were truly behind it all, which they already have.
The case was considered groundbreaking because although scores of Nazi war criminals have been tried and convicted in Germany, in this case there was no evidence that Demjanjuk (dem-YAHN'-yuk) committed a specific crime.
His prosecution was based on the theory that if Demjanjuk was at the camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, he was a participant in the killing there — the first time such a legal argument has been made in German courts.
after reading the above text, i thought about the way Germany censors many video games that contain nazi-affiliated images/etc. like Wolfenstein, which is banned from legal sale in german territory. i think they're ashamed of their history a bit too much. my personal beliefs are "if one makes mistakes, they should live with it and learn from it" the same should go for a whole country as well as it goes for a single person.
Opinions?