http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8385577.stm
This is open to debate for any KS4 and KS5 Students.
A frail, former US carworker, accused of helping to murder 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp, goes on trial in Munich this week. He stands accused of having helped the Nazi death camp at Soribor factory to function, though he denies being a camp guard at Sobibor, in Nazi-occupied Poland. He arrived to court in a wheelchair, with his eyes close, though he he seemed conscious.
Defence lawyers say he will not speak at all during the trial, and will neither confirm nor deny that he was at Sobibor.
Read the article and debate - to what extent is this 'retrospective justice'?
3 comments:
Well I think it is unjust, although there have been reports that he was seen getting out of a car and thus his illness is fake. I see that his illness should be verified at first. Never the less looking at the picture and on that very basis I believe it is wrong and unjust to send him to jail. It is absolutely ridiculous! How can you send a man of his age to jail? Yes what he is accused of is wrong and his actions cannot be justified but you have to understand the mentality of those people during that time. He might have been forced to work on the concentration camps. If he was to be found guilty I think it is up to the congress to decide the extent of his punishment but then you cannot arrive at a conclusion because this man is already literally trapped in his own body, by his health condition. And last but not least, there has been a continuation of stories in the press regarding people who worked at concentration camps who now face prosecution. Yes they should be punished but then what is the point? The question then indefinitely arises is that can we punish someone against what they did when it was legal?
In my opinion it's unfair to bring justice after all these years, there are factors involved that need to be consideered...
first of all he himself was under Nazi control, so therefore he was only following orders given to him by his superiors...had he not done what he was asked then could he have been around today...or would he have been a victim himself!
Altough the actions of what happened during that terrible era can not be forgiven, however it is not fair to lay blame on one person...the real culprit was Hitler...
The death camp was run by a number of people...should they not also be called to justice...what can be acheived by punishing and condeming a man who is close to death with only years left...maybe months....
So, 27,900 people murdered men women and children, and some of us or some of you have "Sympathy For The Devil". The relatives of those 27,900 of those who were butchered seem not to count for much! This man like thousands of other Nazis probably enjoyed his job! He has had a nice life for the past 60 years, and that is 60 years too many.
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