johankreig wrote:
I find it sad that they are going to try one of the former camp guards who has been helpfull to researchers etc.. and also admits openly that they were wrong, cant remember his name but he was in charge of the foreign currency at the camp, and features on the bbc series on the camp.
It's Oskar Groening - the bloke who this thread is all about.
Have to say I feel a wee bit sorry for the guy. Having been ordered transferred there and not liking it very much, the only way out was to apply for another transfer to a combat unit, which is exactly what he did. Since then, he has constantly spoken up against Holocaust deniers, has provided unvarnished testimony as to the brutality of those places and has admitted moral guilt for being part of the Nazi regime.
I have always thought that changing a law and then retrospectively prosecuting someone for breaking it is a bit daft, but if Germany wants to apply the "accessory to" crime so broadly, then I guess they will be bringing similar prosecutions against the train drivers who drove the transports and the workers in the civilian firms who provided supplies for the camps.
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