97-year-old German woman convicted of complicity in war crimes

[Nemuri Kyoshiro]

A 97-year-old woman got a 2 year suspended sentence handed down by a German court. As a teenager, she was employed in the office at  Stutthof as the Commandant's secretary. I wonder how many ex-NKVD typists are still swanning around free?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/20/nazi-camp-secretary-irmgard-furchner-stutthof-germany

[Anti Facts Sir]

Why wait 78 years to do this to her, though. I doubt you can get much more junior than a teenage female secretary in the grand scheme of Nazism.

[- TZC -]

I had dreams and daydreams about what I would do if I had been called upon to go and kill for my country as a child. I imagined refusal, and facing the single pistol or firing squad, or perhaps agreeing, getting tooled up and then going awol, maybe trying to hide in a pile of bodies, hoping the bayonets missed me so I could wander home after a few hours of shallow breathing.. pretty dark morose thoughts for a child, I know.  And I also considered the flipside of those actions getting home being called a coward, a traitor, a failure.

 

This might be tricky to some but-

 

The difference in my opinion, is intent.

I do not believe it is acceptable to deliberately take a life no matter what side you are on or what justification there is, nor how futile it may seem to refuse.

This poor girl found herself in a tight situation that didn't command personal physical action to kill, and it's undoubtedly grey, but I think that sentencing a 97 year old lady for doing what she needed to in the horror that she found herself growing up in is a hell of a stretch to try and keep alive the horrors of naziism and falsely stoke the relevance of it in 2022. Pathetic.

[Anti Facts Sir]

46 minutes ago, - TZC - said:

sentencing a 97 year old lady for doing what she needed to in the horror that she found herself growing up in is a hell of a stretch to try and keep alive the horrors of naziism and falsely stoke the relevance of it in 2022. Pathetic.

Somehow I wonder if this was the actual motivation more than anything else.

[Azy]

I'm not really familiar with the current German Government but I assume it's the same entity at the top as the rest of Europe and most of the world. Since they are devoid of any empathy for humans their actions and Judgement on this elderly lady does not surprise me.

 

I believe in Judgement Day and part of me would like to see the horror on the faces of these fake rulers of today when they have to answer for their actions.