Ex-Auschwitz guard convicted, sentenced to five years in prison
Source: Reuters
Published Friday, Jun. 17, 2016 8:36AM EDT
A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard was convicted on Friday of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people, according to the judge presiding over what could be one of Germanys last Holocaust trials.
Reinhold Hanning was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in facilitating the slaughter at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/ex-auschwitz-guard-convicted-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison/article30499072/
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Some small (very small) amount of justice.
brooklynite
(94,519 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)a life sentence.
cali
(114,904 posts)MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)Fuck him. Die in pain.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)will be brought to justice and get what they deserve 50 or so years from now for the genocide that they created in Iraq and the rest of the middle east. we can only dream.
cstanleytech
(26,290 posts)farleftlib
(2,125 posts)Just like WJC turned a blind eye to Poppy Bush and Obama turned a blind eye to Jr. and his crew,
the hope is very small indeed.
I don't know if it's even their right/duty to do something like that but I'd hope they'd use the bully
pulpit to start an investigation at least.
bobthedrummer
(26,083 posts)Cheney Watch
http://www.cheneywatch.org
Behind the Aegis
(53,955 posts)This criminal deserves more time, and his victims deserve to be respected.