The Last Nazi Trials: The Case Of Auschwitz Guard Reinhold Hanning | TIME 

Light Ray Adam eyyyy ain’t that the truth!!

Light Ray Adam-- do the Japanese even teach their school children about atrocities in se Asia?

You won't get them as japan never admitted the crimes as for german they had admitted and taken the responsabilities.

Or what about the Americans who dropped nukes and murdered 200K civilians. Indeed a war crime based on the laws made up after the war.

The Japanese situation is different. Japan suffered from the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Japanese have learnt from their mistakes, due to lack of experience.

NEVER !!!!!!!

Would your feel better knowing that your murdered relative life was valued as 10 minutes or so prison time? 0 in practice as "everybody" knew someone of his age and health would not be actually jailed and probably would die before the legal formalities was sorted out. That's not justice nor revenge. Just a impotent show trial where the prosecutor knowing fully well that while he will get guilty verdict a punishment even remotely fitted to the charge will not be carried out. It's better to admitt that justice was not served to him and a great many other of his kind back in the days for one reason or another and that time have now run out for a rerun in a meaningfull way. Then stating that the proper punishment for him and others like him will be carried out post mortem.

so what, retaliate? if thats your answer, then obviously youre part of the problem. yes you forget and move on, thats what a mature person will do. my father was almost killed in the cypriot invasion of turkey, hes alive and well today but never did he ever mention his experiences in war, its over. you forget and move on

Emilios Powerballer So are we suppose to act like nothing happened? Despicable.

All wrongs or sins need to be forgiven, not for the sake of the abuser but for the sanity of the victim, or it will eat you alive, Gods help will be needed to do this. It is not humanly possible ..

@John Sluder Great education you have, you think Communism was Jewish because of Lenin? Lord have mercy, I have seen so many misinformed idiots online it actually hurts my feelings that most of human kind is at your level.

John Sluder Marx was a self hating half jew, he even wrote a book criticising them. Also his partner Friedrich Engels was pure european German. Communism is not a jewish ideology.

John Sluder Nazibot

@John Sluder yes Bolsheviks.

But you can through forgiveness! Sadly something missing in tech social media. It’s all we have to aid us in the path to redemption.

@Y Bshut up boy

What about Palestine then? Should we forget about their plight and struggle?

Gaza i think you mean? Israel pays them for electricity and other essential stuff

You will repeat it even if you remember it. Such is human nature.

@@guavaguy4397 then that's a conscious decision you'll reap the consequences for as life as shown many a time. You are not asked to be or feel guilty but to acknowledge, accept, and remember. That isn't hard.

We still had trials in 2023! Some of these late-90s/centenarian SS men are actually put in front of juvenile courts, because they were under 18/21 while they were SS members/the holocaust took place. For them it was certainly better than to fight on the fronts. The years of 44/45, the _"final stand/Endkampf",_ took more casualties than the previous years combined _(where already millions had died)._ Especially among very young men. They often didn't even finish school, before being thrown at the front lines. After a shortened training. Although many had already somewhat of a pre-training. Being part of the Hitlerjugend and anti-aircraft defense _("Flakhelfer generation")._

@@yannick245Good. You shouldn't get to participate in something like this, without facing the consequences.

Daniel Ruelas The West did not prosecute any of the former 731 scientists. When one of them came to the US to make a formal apology, he only made out of his plane before being sent back to Japan by the police! Had he been allowed to speak, it would have been world news!

Jordan Reynolds That's what leftists and SJWs apparently believe and that no other race except whites can do that.

@@Bj-yf3im well said man.

Yep, prosecuting a 94 year old man who was a tiny payer in a big game more than a lifetime ago just seems silly. The poor sod probably didn't know what was going on

My people only make up less than 2% of the country after many genocides The last one being in the 80s.There were no camps they were purged on site :( things like this happened in Asia too

Very true.

True but that applies to everyone not only Western. Soviet Union did the same thing.

@@marcospark2803 Yep, basically just hypocrites in power. Even worse, when America originally started hearing rumors of the ethnic cleansing occuring in Germany, they were slow to react because America was overwhelmingly antisemetic during the 30s and 40s so they didn't really see it as a pressing issue. It was only when Pearl Harbour was attacked that the Jewish extermination became a worthy enough cause for America to join the war for.

Germany's crime was taxing the US corporations that did business in Germany

It makes me sick how the US hid so many of these people, and let many of the Japanese completely off the hook in agreement to exchange information.

Who did you vote for in the last election? Let’s see how well you’ve learned ‘your lesson’…

True and well said.

True and everyone has a choice. I am ex navy and if I were given an order that I believed was unlawful , like this guard was given , I would rather go to jail or even be killed my self than obey that order . Evey military person has the right to refuse to obey an unlawful order. And what is lawful about about first guarding the people so,they couldn’t sneak away, escape off the trains or to escape after they were unloaded at the camp……dividing families, sending some to the camp to be worked to death and others be killed immediately , sending those children and infants to be gassed, then guarding the remainder in a camp, making sure that they don’t escape and then guarding them while they work and forcing them to work until they died from untreated disease and sickness, over work and malnutrition? What ,in ANY military ,is lawful about ordering someone to do those things? The guard is responsible because of this simple fact…if there had not been guards like this man, many of these people would have at least tried to escape. Who knows how many might have succeeded. Who,dealt wirh the people on a daily basis? Not the high officers, it was the guards, the enlisted ranks,. Of course the officers woukd check periodically, and they certainly signed off on the enlisted guards reports, maybe the officers supervised any special occurrences or punishments that happened. They supervised the off loading of the trains of people. But guards were still,present , when officers where there and when officers were absent. One or two officer wouldnt have been enough to stop a mass escape or a mass attack on the officers…so guards were absolutely ecsssary and vital to all aspects and operations ofmthe murder machines. So this murder machine that was the concentration camp required many people to make it work. If you remove one part it just doesn’t woek or doesn’t woek as well. And a guard was one of those parts that was absolutely necsssry. It’s a tradgedy that this guard was allowed to live a long , free, and happy life , somerhing he denied thousands of others. Justice wouid have been better served if he could have been caught and tried decades ago. But he needs to be convicted ,he needs to ad it his guilt and responsibility in the deaths of thousands and IMO he needs to be in prison for his last years.

@@teresahiggs4896 thank-you for your service.

That woman is the exact reason this was allowed to happen in the first place. Complete ambivalence and then excusing actions by saying maybe that's just what they had to do.

I'm happy to know I'm not the only one who disagrees with that woman's mindset.

Actually, a Christian must forgive. We may not all be going to prison for crimes, but before God us sinners cannot stand. MATTHEW 6: 14 -15 "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."

This guy isn't even the same guy he was in his youth. This is a travesty and a waste of time.

The truth : yes , it's possible.

Belinda Hopkins you do not know that

How come Rudolph Hess was made to die in solitary confinement, for the same reson that Eichmann was murdered, to keep him quiet.

@@archdornan3339wasn't Germany under half and half ussr control until 1990? Hardly a time to drum up more when the Berlin wall is right there

@@HackersSun that was 30 years ago

She's playing her part, that's all.

@@David-ci1vn What do you mean by that?

@@gordonharper9126 "I was asked if I would go", "I didn't look at his face but I was not required to", she's acting a part as required in a prosecution as a witness of someone she had never met. Look at how cursorily she points to the photograph while indicating herself, then compare that picture to the narrative of the moment, does it tally, is she being pressured to move, does she look even concerned, is she even the right age? This elderly lady has a legally promted platform and I daresay, and hope, that she is now comfortable at home, quite unlike another elderely lady Ursual Haverbeck who today the 8th November is passing it in Bielefeld prison because she "is not allowed to speak", it's disgusting.

@@David-ci1vn She said: 'I was not required to recognize his face'. That's wholly different and has nothing to do with how classy & even pretty she appears!

#Vietnam

#Iraq

I disagree. And I doubt that he never killed any of them or participated in beatings that could lead to death. If the dead could talk...they would tell you, I'm sure, that he participated in murder.

Linda Williams the dead can’t talk, and your certainty doesn’t hold up in court

Alan Dela that’s what I’m thinking, he was a pawn

You have a very weird view on justice.

@@ceebee4750 You are absolutely right just as the court.

Yeah, you get it I think of the horror of Normandy of basically ally vs ally killing each other out of fear for what the top might do at the same time gunning down your country men

to be fair, for the victims, he needed to be brought to justice.

@@HackersSun "ally vs ally killing each other" ? "Gunning down your countrymen"? 1. It's ALLIE not ally! Ally is a unisex given name, nickname and surname. It is a variant of Allie and Ali. It is used as a diminutive nickname for the given names Alison or Alyssa (feminine) or Alister or Alan (masculine). 2. The allies certainly didnt shoot each other knowingly, out of fear or otherwise!

@@HackersSun EASTERN FRONT normandy is western

@@HackersSun Garbage response.

Bro that bitch is fucking ignorant!!!

Your not the only one. That girl didn't lose anyone,so this doesn't matter to her,most of the young people today have never faced ha4dship in their lives,so they are desensitized to other people's problems m

They aren’t saying he committed crimes , he is being charged for just having been there as a guard which is problematic

This is law, not justice.

Yes people were forced into the Wehrmacht (Army) but no into the SS that guarded the camps

Sami F There were plenty of ordinary soldiers who committed war crimes against Russian civilians through rape and murder. Should we prosecute every living german soldier because the possibility he may have committed such crimes? No. The same goes here. That's like saying American soldiers who fought in Iraq should be prosecuted for their part in an illegal war, even though they were just following orders from their commanders-the ones really responsible.

Magnus Hansson ur sick he liked his job asshole

Spoken with the eloquence I've come to expect from leftists and other outrage warriors. How the f'ck would "you" know?

Jeff Max And he told you so?

I can salute him and not be aware of the mass execution or about the massacres. But a guard is a different story, he is seeing everyday how innocent people are being massacred, assassinated, sent to gas chambers, etc.

"Every time I hear" you act as you are supposed to,it's great NLP.

I don't think so.

@@harrynking777 OK, keep torturing yourself then.

He was on the run for 65 years, something that his fellow colleague Jakob Wendel didn't do. He too was a guard (lower ranking than Hanning actually) but never had anything to hide. Turned himself in back in 1948, stood trial and served 5 years in prison. That's the way it's supposed to be.

True, now let's make that trip to Africa and put the original salesmen on trial.

Greg Ranger - lol

The old man *is* what the young man has done. You can't reverse the harm you caused other people. You can repent and you can change as you grow older, but that doesn't erase the suffering. We will always be responsible for that. [But it's good you have empathy. That is such a beautiful, necessary human emotion.]

bakari brown - a true, idiotic liberal comment!!!

Thats incorrect. Nobody was forced to be a guard in a camp. U could decline yr duties there anytime and be a regular soldier.

@@lizvlx he was wounded while fighting on the front line and was considered not fit for front line duty, thus he was assigned to be a guard.

Pepper no, if you are injured you are sent home

@@lizvlx where u would most likely have died so he is right

@@air2091 you really think they'd allow you to just be chilling at home?

@Val O'Brien In general I agree with you. But who would really have sacrificed his own life in such a situation? Would you? I think that is very hard to tell. Above all because the real options he might have had to act differently probably would not had changed anything. Of course there was also resistance and heroism in this time, but even those heros acted from a position of a minimum of security and the chance to get away with their rebellious acts (Schindler, the Scholl siblings and the white rose etc.).

Shut up

Really why should i

How do you know he never killed anyone?

@@gregranger9440 I don't but how do you and the court know he did plus he is 90 years old he will die soon anyway

@@gregranger9440 let's just call it quits

I wouldn't be volunteering for an army branch that's for sure.

@@damenwhelan3236 it wasnt volunteer

Definitely join the military, I wouldn't mind being a tank crewman or a pilot even. Maybe even join the SS, who knows.

Hey there, I just came to say that you have a very nice body.

@@damenwhelan3236 well it might be best to volounteer because your chances are the highest to get to an army branch which isnt at the front .If you get drafted chances are high you have to join the ss or the normal infantry

You do realise that the only crime he committed was being a guard, which, wasn't a choice. It was a legitimate posting. A lot of the time soldiers, even of the SS, didn't know they were going to be posted to a death camp. This caused problems because guards would kill themselves if it got too much, so, they had to be on rotation. 43 is when they started to gas, which only required one person to operate. So again, out of the thousands of troops who were guards, he is guilty because he was one of them. Muh hawlawcawst

Jack H He was a good soldier.

Wytee Powers He was a good solider. He was. And im.sure his medals will comfort him as his humanity failed.

LegionaryWithAGladius not many people actually understand this you obviously seem like a reasonable person for knowing this

mike powers You lying piece of garbage! if Israel wanted to exterminate the “Palestinians”, they could’ve easily done it by now.

Without the cog, the killing machine does not work. Do not give in to evil. There is no expiration date on an injustice!

Oh you mean the Palestinians attacking Israeli soldiers which then defend themselves?

no, they not accept the international court of law

Warsame Guhaad Bahdoon Baloney there is no comparison you are out of your mind if you think so !

HOW DARE YOU COMPARE

Well i see the Terrorist internet army of Israel isnt happy with what i write.

Without the cog[s], the killing machine wouldn't work.

You will learn that the human mind and body changes in a 7 years cycle. Many of us do not remember anything under that age of 5. 5-10 years old another cycle. 10-20 years another cycle of changes. Cycles /Chapter's in life continue to change as we age. After the age of 70 the vessels in the brain thin and memory is gone forever. Dementia and Alzheimer set in. At the age of 90 short term memory is gone. Some have long term memory. I work with the geriatric population and could not imagine a 90 year old man being put through a court hearing. Forgiveness is the KEY......To set humanity FREE. I teach my children to FORGIVE quickly. To BLESS those who curse you. Why Bless them???? Because the Universal Law (NOT MAN'S LAW) will shower BLESSING in your life. Wisdom is a gift.

it's a matter of justice not forgiveness, it's up to the victims to forgive not to the justice system. I personally don't care if he spend a minute in jail or not, I care justice is done.

Indeed it should've taken place between 1945 and 1970 as was the case of Hanning's colleague Jakob Wendel. He was never on the run. He was not even an officer. He was a Sturmmann (Lance corporal), 2 ranks junior of Hanning. He turned himself in in 1948 after serving time in a POW camp. He was convicted as a guard and served 5 years, freed 1953. That's the way it's supposed to be. Hanning evaded the law from when he finished serving time in a POW camp in 1948 up until his capture in 2013. 65 years. That itself is a crime. His SS guard service facilitating mass murder is another. At least he was caught and convicted. Better late than never.

He died before he could serve his sentence.

Tai Zong I heard- again, I don’t condone anyone having been involved in this, but this was a low ranked guard- not Ivan the terrible

Hanning actually initially arrived in court walking unassisted. He probably sat on a wheelchair for much of his trial because it's an accommodation for the elderly.

like this guy.....en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk...he was filmed joyously walking around when not on trial yet was brought to trial in a wheelchair to garner sympathy. John was found guilty btw.