1. Welcome to Baptist Board, a friendly forum to discuss the Baptist Faith in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to all the features that our community has to offer.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!

Nazi War Criminals

Discussion in 'History Forum' started by Salty, Jul 24, 2014.

  1. Salty

    Salty 20,000 Posts Club
    Administrator

    Joined:
    Apr 8, 2003
    Messages:
    38,982
    Likes Received:
    2,615
    Faith:
    Baptist
    The current German govt is seeking several war criminals -

    seeing that the war was over 70 years ago, and everyone on the list is in their 90's

    Is it reasonable to continue this search?
     
  2. padredurand

    padredurand Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Oct 25, 2004
    Messages:
    4,541
    Likes Received:
    102
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Considering those they killed didn't get to live those 70 years and near 90 years old - absolutely reasonable.
     
  3. thisnumbersdisconnected

    Joined:
    Apr 11, 2013
    Messages:
    8,448
    Likes Received:
    0
    From Germany's viewpoint, it does. They want to exorcise the demons Hitler left behind. And if anyone is still alive who participated in the genocide the Nazis tried to use to eliminate the Jews, then yeah ... he still needs to answer for it.
     
  4. Salty

    Salty 20,000 Posts Club
    Administrator

    Joined:
    Apr 8, 2003
    Messages:
    38,982
    Likes Received:
    2,615
    Faith:
    Baptist
  5. Rolfe

    Rolfe Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 17, 2014
    Messages:
    6,898
    Likes Received:
    638
    Faith:
    Baptist
    If they are still alive, they are able to be held accountable for their crimes and ought to be hunted.
     
  6. thisnumbersdisconnected

    Joined:
    Apr 11, 2013
    Messages:
    8,448
    Likes Received:
    0
    In the Playhouse 90 dramatization of the account of famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and his search for Adolf Eichmann, an was portrayed of an interview Wiesenthal did with a woman and Nazi sympathizer who, prior to her arrest and life prison sentence in France for collaboration and murder, allegedly harbored Eichmann briefly when he fled Germany for Argentina. She was very uncooperative and did everything but literally spit in Wiesenthal's face. He had finally had enough, but rather than lose his temper and scream, shout and threaten, he became eerily calm, almost pleasant.

    In the production, the actor playing Wiesenthal leaned in very close to her and whispered, "I am vun off dose Jews you hate, one off the vuns you would haf gladly allowed duh Bosch to exterminate. But zee? Here ... " -- he stepped gingerly over and back above the threshold of her prison cell -- " ... I go out, I come in. I am velcome anyfvere I choos to go. But you. You, Madama Karl? You aren't going anyfvere. Efver. You vil liff here. You vil die here. Unless, perhaps, you zee fit to cooperate with dis ... dis ... Jew!"

    She did. She gave up Eichmann. And she still lived and died in that tiny cell, never setting foot outside it.

    I looked into this portrayal years later, because it stuck with me for years. It is true, almost exactly as it was shown. The woman got exactly as she deserved. Perhaps better.
     
    #6 thisnumbersdisconnected, Jul 26, 2014
    Last edited by a moderator: Jul 26, 2014
  7. blackbird

    blackbird Active Member

    Joined:
    Feb 21, 2002
    Messages:
    11,898
    Likes Received:
    4
    I'm with Padre!!! in spite of their age---even today---they are hardened fugitives running from international law and should be considered armed and dangerous
     
  8. Salty

    Salty 20,000 Posts Club
    Administrator

    Joined:
    Apr 8, 2003
    Messages:
    38,982
    Likes Received:
    2,615
    Faith:
    Baptist
    True

    Not true
     
  9. Rolfe

    Rolfe Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 17, 2014
    Messages:
    6,898
    Likes Received:
    638
    Faith:
    Baptist
    How do you know?
     
  10. Jerome

    Jerome Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Aug 21, 2006
    Messages:
    9,788
    Likes Received:
    698
    Faith:
    Baptist
  11. Salty

    Salty 20,000 Posts Club
    Administrator

    Joined:
    Apr 8, 2003
    Messages:
    38,982
    Likes Received:
    2,615
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Cant argue the facts
     
  12. blackbird

    blackbird Active Member

    Joined:
    Feb 21, 2002
    Messages:
    11,898
    Likes Received:
    4
    Salt

    My PawPaw lived to be 94 years old----and would still hunt Squirrels up until 3 months before he passed

    If you can hold a Remington 12gauge shotgun in your hands and walk through the woods at 94----you have the same potential of holding a Luger and pointing it toward . . .

    See what I'm saying???

    :saint::saint::saint::saint:
     
  13. church mouse guy

    church mouse guy Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 23, 2002
    Messages:
    22,050
    Likes Received:
    1,857
    Faith:
    Baptist
    A lot of Nazis got their records cleaned up and worked for western governments. Most of Germany was involved with the Nazi Party. It will be uphill all the way but if there are some people out there who were Nazi criminal adults in 1945 or before, then, yes, they should be rounded up. I think I would check all the nursing homes and senior centers first.
     
Loading...