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I don't understand why anyone blusters about the failure right up until today to prosecute the perpetrators of other mass atrocities before, during and since WW2, but then totally undermines their own position with the argument that "if they've got away with it for this long, it seems kind of unfair to charge them now." A card they pull from the bottom of the deck only for the benefit of former Nazis.

I completely agree that in a sense, elderly Nazis are a soft target because you can safely prosecute them without the need to confront awkward questions about aspects of your own country's foreign policy over the last twenty-odd years. Witnessing how the French authorities allowed genocidaires from the former Hutu Power regime in Rwanda to live comfortably and with virtual impunity in France over the last quarter of a century makes French breast-beating and soul-searching over French complicity in the Holocaust seem like a parody of guilt.

But that's no reason for Germans, or anyone else, to give former SS concentration camp staff a get out of jail free card. We're not in some contest to see who can dish out the most exemptions from justice for the most appalling crimes -- we should be doing the opposite, as Izual said in post #157.

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