Associated Press report on Nazi Trial in Germany

[jwhess]

The AP report on the trial of a 96 year old Nazi secretary included a comment on Jehovah's Witness being prisoners in the camp.  75 years have gone by and it still makes the news.

 

"From mid-1944, tens of thousands of Jews from ghettos in the Baltics and from Auschwitz filled the camp, along with thousands of Polish civilians swept up in the brutal Nazi suppression of the Warsaw uprising.

Others incarcerated there included political prisoners, accused criminals, people suspected of homosexual activity and Jehovah’s Witnesses."

[Lee49]

Hard to read that last 2 paragraphs in that article, hard as in inhumane!  😪

[daydream]

https://mynorthwest.com/3171822/ex-secretary-of-nazi-camp-commander-goes-on-trial-in-germany/

Caution advised.

 

Spoiler

More than 60,000 people were killed there by being given lethal injections of gasoline or phenol directly to their hearts, or being shot or starved. Others were forced outside in winter without clothing until they died of exposure, or were put to death in a gas chamber.

 

 

[friendlyone]

Got to love this part in the report -

 

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The accused woman previously had “announced that she didn’t want to come” to court, 

Hardly surprising she wanted to avoid court considering the charges 😨

[Shawnster]

Back last century when I was a teenager we had a public talk and during the talk it was mentioned (maybe an illustration) about these Nazis being found and taken to court decades after the war ended.  After the meeting my mother asked the brother why it was necessary to charge these people with crimes from decades ago.  His reply basically was that "crime doesn't pay."  Some crimes are so heinous that they must be prosecuted because, if they weren't, then this would send the message to criminals that "if you just hide out long enough, you can legally get away with murder."

[Amygdala]

I heard in the car radio that she was a teenager when she started working as this commander's secretary. People who worked under the Nazis sadly did some heinous things as mentioned, but also nurses willingly followed orders from doctors doing "experimentations" on the vulnerable - especially to handicapped or ill people, even twins.

 

I'll be amazed if this 96 year old woman even lives through the trial.