The Nazi's testimony

[jakpalmer]

The Guardian (Laurence Rees)

"Oskar Groning was at his local philately club when a fellow stamp collector cast doubts on the Holocaust. Groning knew he was wrong - because 50 years earlier he had served at Auschwitz. Laurence Rees on what happened when the ex-SS soldier decided to finally confront his past"

This is quite a disturbing story, but interesting nonetheless.

[flordehinojos]

1. how much suffering and how many crimes and how many cover-ups ...

and incredibly something in the undercurrent of this story makes me think about the bushes... and their Prescott who financed Hitler, and the bushes historical lust for money and power, and it may be that there is a connection too between what the SS did in Germany to the Jews and what the bushes are doing to the iraqis in iraq...but perhaps there is another and more powerful connection for me between the bushes and the Groning story ... and that is that they never are allowed to grieve and are never allowed to talk about what they are doing wrong. they are never allowed to talk about their crimes...and they push any inkling of wrongdoing off of their thoughts and focus on something else which to them is not as wrong, as groning did when he just focused on counting money--even when he was surrounded by stench of blood and bloodied up hands.

the gronin story and the bushes, it is like two sewers that've met together...the stench and the horror are one and the same.

[ET Awful]

2. Hmmm, an ex SS soldier who has "right-of-centre political views"

"He wears good clothes, eats solid German food and espouses conventional right-of-centre political views."

Go figure.

[jakpalmer]

3. How is it possible that those that were at the heart of the Nazi

horror system were not all tried and condemned ?

This man's name must appear in at least a few documents linking him to Auschwitz and he has now publicly acknowledged the fact that he served there.

Yet, I understand he won't be prosecuted. All he got was a few months as a POW in the UK...

Sad.