Poster Campaign Launched To Find Surviving Nazis

[Flashermac]

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German poster campaign launched to find surviving Nazis

 

Posters displayed in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne say "late, but not too late"

 

 

 

A poster campaign has launched in Germany aimed at tracking down the last surviving Nazi war criminals and bringing them to justice.

 

Some 2,000 posters showing the entrance to the Nazi Auschwitz death camp and asking people to come forward with information have been displayed in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne.

 

The US-based Simon Wiesenthal Center offers rewards for useful information.

 

It estimates there to be 60 people alive in Germany fit to stand trial.

 

Some are suspected of having served as guards at Nazi death camps or being members of death squads responsible for mass killings, particularly early on in the war.

 

"Unfortunately, very few people who committed the crimes had to pay for them," leading international Nazi hunter and the centre's Jerusalem branch director, Efraim Zuroff, said. "The passage of time in no way diminishes the crimes."

 

As part of its "Operation Last Chance II" project, the centre is offering rewards of up to 25,000 euros (£21,500; $33,080) for information which helps to prosecute war criminals in Germany.

 

The centre, which is one of the largest Jewish human rights organisations, is asking for tip-offs via a hotline it has set up.

 

The posters depict a black and white photo of the railway tracks leading into Auschwitz and say in German: "Late, but not too late. Millions of innocents were murdered by Nazi war criminals. Some of the perpetrators are free and alive. Help us take them to court."

 

Auschwitz, in occupied Poland, was the biggest Nazi death camp where more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered.

 

Legal precedent

 

The poster campaign comes two years after the conviction of Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk for his role as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor death camp.

 

Demjanjuk, who died in March 2012 at the age of 91, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2011 based solely on his service in the camp.

 

The centre says his conviction set a precedent allowing German prosecutors to reopen hundreds of investigations and prosecute former camp guards as accessories to murder, even if there was no proof the defendants personally killed anyone.

 

Germans are divided between those who think war criminals should be pursued to the grave and those, often younger people, who say the crimes are remote from present-day Germany, says the BBC's Stephen Evans.

 

In May, a 93-year-old former Auschwitz guard was arrested in southern Germany, accused of participating in the mass murder and persecution of innocent civilians, primarily Jews, between October 1941 and 1945.

 

The Simon Wiesenthal Center had named Hans Lipschis as number four in its list of most-wanted Nazis.

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk...europe-23428997

[Flashermac]

_{I wonder when Stalin's war criminals will be tried.}

 

_{p.s. One of the conditions at the Nuremberg Trials was that no Allied war crimes could be considered.}

[Plainsdrifter]

Who was it that said something like; "To the victor goes the role of writing history"?

[Mekong]

Who was it that said something like; "To the victor goes the role of writing history"?

 

Winston Churchill "History is Written by the Victors"

[BelgianBoy]

_{p.s. One of the conditions at the Nuremberg Trials was that no Allied war crimes could be considered.}

not correct, Nurenberg was specifically against The Germans.

[Flashermac]

Ah ... you right:

 

<< At the end of World War II, several trials of Axis war criminals took place, most famously the Nuremberg Trials. However, in Europe, these tribunals were set up under the authority of the London Charter, which only considered allegations of war crimes committed by persons who acted in the interests of the European Axis countries. >>

 

 

http://en.wikipedia....ng_World_War_II

[pasathai1]

will they be going after the camp cook that pealed potatoes ?

[baa99]

Bavaria has been protecting Nazis for a long time. For example take this case,

 

Klaas Carel Faber, who was second on the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's list of Nazi criminals still at large, died on Thursday in Ingolstadt in Bavaria, where he had lived for decades.

 

German prosecutors said in January they had appealed to a court in Bavaria to make Faber serve the life sentence handed down by Dutch authorities for murdering 22 Jews.

 

Faber was a former member of the Nazi SS unit known as Silver Fir and was originally sentenced to death by a Dutch court in 1947. While awaiting execution he escaped from Breda prison in the western Netherlands in 1952 with six other former SS men.

 

He eventually started working for the car maker Audi based in Ingolstadt, while his sentence was commuted to life in prison after the Netherlands abolished the death penalty.

 

In 1957, a German court threw out all charges against him for lack of evidence and Bavarian authorities said the Netherlands must produce new evidence before Faber could be arrested again.

 

The Netherlands secured a European arrest warrant for Faber in November 2010 and sought his return to Dutch custody but Bavarian officials refused to execute the warrant.

 

Faber, who originally had Dutch nationality, escaped because Germany still recognises the citizenship that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler gave to all those serving in the SS - and does not extradite its own citizens.

 

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120527-42789.html

[unit731]

On a slightly different note.

 

 

Most sent to camps went by rail. The railroads were paid.

 

One way the Nazi paid for the railroads was to use the life insurance of the passengers.

The railroads wanted the money up front.

So the Nazi's had death certificates printed for the folks not dead yet.

Life insurance companies paid whenever there was a death certificate - dead or alive.

[BelgianBoy]

On a slightly different note.

 

 

Most sent to camps went by rail. The railroads were paid.

 

One way the Nazi paid for the railroads was to use the life insurance of the passengers.

The railroads wanted the money up front.

So the Nazi's had death certificates printed for the folks not dead yet.

Life insurance companies paid whenever there was a death certificate - dead or alive.

any link for this ? sorry but sounds like someone had a lot of imagination.....

first of all, railroads were not paid, they were nationalised, secondly, back then, no life insurances !

its a load of croc.....

 

BB