Never Forget
Editors note: I disagree with the statement below that it would be "difficult" to charge anyone 61 years after WWII....So if the perpetrator is in their right mind and just happens to be in their 90's and STILL believes what they did was right, we, because we are now part of a global neighborhood-- (meaning a more kind, more peaceful, more civilized, intellectual(WHAT?!) humane mind rules among nations currently-- magnanimity to a fault) we cannot or should not charge for war crimes because of some false propriety based upon dignity of age or some other convoluted notion? This absurd attitude existed during Nuremburg, and regardless of age, right minds overruled over the liberality of 'forgiveness' ., this forgiveness being based NOT upon law or violations of the Geneva Convention or even feigned grace but upon some vague sense of fear, moral relativity and supreme discomfort to exercise judgement and execute truth. For the most part, throwing stones in glass houses. We continue to suffer from this diseased fear of calling wrong wrong and doing right for rights sake. Truth and morality are based upon a moral law which is not relative or fluid with the times or culture. There most definately is good and evil and few grey areas if any. Sentances for war crimes were given then because crimes were committed, NOT simply because contrition, or even an understanding of what had transpired, was absent in many. We need to abide by laws and if they are not written within the hearts of men then we must administer the laws we have in order to create justice for all--- safety and reverence for the victims life and correction based upon truth for the perpetrator.
Courtesy of Yahoo News
Nazi-era mass grave discovered in German cemetery
By Matthias Inverardi 1 hour, 42 minutes ago
MENDEN-BARGE, Germany (Reuters) - German authorities said on Thursday that they had unearthed the remains of 51 people, most of them children, in what may be a mass grave for murdered victims of Hitler's euthanasia program.
So far the skeletons of 22 children and 29 adults have been exhumed from the grave, located in a Catholic church cemetery of the village of Menden-Barge, local officials told reporters. The exhumation process is still under way. State prosecutor Ulrich Maass said there were signs those buried in the grave met a violent end, especially the children. "We assume that these were victims of the Nazi regime," Maass said. Supporting this view is the fact that the children's tiny skeletons had been haphazardly tossed into the grave without coffins, he said. Three of the children showed signs of having physical handicaps, Maass said. Some of the adults were buried in coffins and the cause of their deaths was not immediately clear. During Adolf Hitler's 12-year rule, which ended with the Nazi leader's suicide in 1945, he oversaw the mass slaughter of six million Jews and other minorities across Germany and Europe. People with mental and physical handicaps were systematically put to death as part of a euthanasia program aimed at "cleansing" the German gene pool of those whom the Nazis deemed unfit for a master race of Aryan supermen. The prosecutor's office will now look for witnesses and documents from the period. Maass said he already had the testimony from a former church assistant who said he saw corpses brought on horse-drawn carts and dumped into the grave. However, it would be very difficult to indict anyone 61 years after World War Two ended, he said. Also, it would be hard to detect traces of poisons that might have been used to kill them. Maass said he would investigate whether the victims came from a Nazi hospital nearby which was established on the orders of Hitler's personal physician Karl Brandt, who headed the Nazi euthanasia program and was executed after the war. The local population kept silent about the existence of the mass grave until three years ago when local authorities began investigating signs that there might be a mass grave, he said. Maass said that after the war many Germans had a tendency "first to suppress and then to forget."
Courtesy of Yahoo News
Nazi-era mass grave discovered in German cemetery
By Matthias Inverardi 1 hour, 42 minutes ago
MENDEN-BARGE, Germany (Reuters) - German authorities said on Thursday that they had unearthed the remains of 51 people, most of them children, in what may be a mass grave for murdered victims of Hitler's euthanasia program.
So far the skeletons of 22 children and 29 adults have been exhumed from the grave, located in a Catholic church cemetery of the village of Menden-Barge, local officials told reporters. The exhumation process is still under way. State prosecutor Ulrich Maass said there were signs those buried in the grave met a violent end, especially the children. "We assume that these were victims of the Nazi regime," Maass said. Supporting this view is the fact that the children's tiny skeletons had been haphazardly tossed into the grave without coffins, he said. Three of the children showed signs of having physical handicaps, Maass said. Some of the adults were buried in coffins and the cause of their deaths was not immediately clear. During Adolf Hitler's 12-year rule, which ended with the Nazi leader's suicide in 1945, he oversaw the mass slaughter of six million Jews and other minorities across Germany and Europe. People with mental and physical handicaps were systematically put to death as part of a euthanasia program aimed at "cleansing" the German gene pool of those whom the Nazis deemed unfit for a master race of Aryan supermen. The prosecutor's office will now look for witnesses and documents from the period. Maass said he already had the testimony from a former church assistant who said he saw corpses brought on horse-drawn carts and dumped into the grave. However, it would be very difficult to indict anyone 61 years after World War Two ended, he said. Also, it would be hard to detect traces of poisons that might have been used to kill them. Maass said he would investigate whether the victims came from a Nazi hospital nearby which was established on the orders of Hitler's personal physician Karl Brandt, who headed the Nazi euthanasia program and was executed after the war. The local population kept silent about the existence of the mass grave until three years ago when local authorities began investigating signs that there might be a mass grave, he said. Maass said that after the war many Germans had a tendency "first to suppress and then to forget."
posted by Napoleon at 8:38 AM
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i'm sending this to Ahmendijad or however the heck you spell his name, sorry A!
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