Let me just start this post by saying my great grandparents were Polish Jews. They left Poland and headed to America before Nazi persecution began, but my heart feels for all those whose family wasn't so lucky.
Mercy for these men is not an option in my opinion. They are guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Crimes against humanity are defined as offences against or serious attacks on human dignity or grave humiliation or degradation of one or more human beings.
Did these men not commit these specified acts? In the article these men claim ignorance but does ignorance constitute innocence? NO! I feel that these men should be exiled back to the grounds in which they helped (knowingly on not...more than likely knowingly) decimate a human race. They may have escaped the Numberg Trials, but does that mean that they should not pay for their acts anyways. If we allow their age to become a factor in their deportation, are we not allowing ignorance to constitute as innocence. These men knew what they were doing was immoral and wrong. Simply sayiong they had no choice is unexcusable. They did have a choice. They just chose not to do the right and moral thing. They are guilty and they need to own up to what they did. They should come full circle with what they did and take their punishments as they did serving there own brand of justice.
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I completely agree with you 100%. It kind of shocked me that there were not that many people in the class who shared our opinion though. I would think that everyone would be suggesting their deportation from our country. Also, its cool that you have that family history. It would be interesting to hear their stories about this time period.
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