Nazi concentration camp guard, 100 years old, cleared to face trial

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/03/nazi-concentration-camp-guard-cleared-to-face-trial/

Posted by ObjectiveObserver420

7 comments

  1. Must be difficult for him seeing his people come back into power in russia and the usa, and still have to go on trial for the stuff he did *last time* they were in power.

  2. It’s so chilling to realise that people like this have just lived normal lives and been neighbours and coworkers all these years. It’s a wonder Jews are okay with living in Germany again, where that possibility is so much higher. 

  3. It’s very weird to be tried by the same courts of the country that decades earlier mandatorily made you join the Hitler Youth, indoctrinated you from a young age with non-stop propaganda, and then at 18 assigned to a guard position at a camp.

    I’d be counter suing the German state.

  4. What kind of justice can you face as a 100-year-old in this day and age? It’d be one thing if they ended up giving him a wilfully botched hanging, like they did in Nuremberg, but I guess that’s off the table these days.

  5. I really hope one day we will see all former IDF soilders get sentence and trialed for the Palestinian genocides after Palestine gets liberated.

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  6. >Earlier this year, a German regional court suspended the proceedings against Mr Formanek due to a “permanent inability to stand trial”.

    >A 100-year-old former concentration camp guard could face justice over the murder of thousands of prisoners, after a German regional court dismissed an earlier ruling (mentioned above, I rearranged excerpts a bit) which determined he was unfit to stand trial.

    I really wish article expanded on this, because I’m REALLY curious what supposedly constituted “permanent inability to stand trial”. Article doesn’t say what it supposedly was, just that it was justification of now overturned ruling.

    Anyway, better late than never. This guy really freaking lucked out. He almost entirely avoided any responsibility over his crimes. Heck, even now he was only mildly inconvenienced so far and there’s fairly high risk he will just die of old age before mild inconvenience escalates into an actual punishment.

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