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Originally Posted by Livia
He had a good, long life, a family, love, a home... all the things the people he helped murder would never have. Now he's going to die peacefully in a warm secure place.
Let's not forget who made the Nazi Party in control in Germany.
I can't believe there is sympathy for this man on here.
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I don't think it's really about sympathy, I for one don't have "sympathy" for him and couldn't give a stuff what happens to him. It doesn't matter. He's old. Most people don't reach the age of 94 at all so whether they kill him, let him die in jail, whatever, it's all sort of redundant... for better or worse, he's already had his life. So no, it's not about sympathy, more about pointing out the futility of it.
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Originally Posted by Livia
There are survivors of the Holocaust who might disagree with you.
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You're contradicting your own post there, though. "He had a good, long life, a family, love, a home... all the things the people he helped murder would never have. Now he's going to die peacefully in a warm secure place."
So, by your own thinking, does this feel like justice? Or even vengeance? He can go to jail and sit in a room for a couple of years until he dies. Or he could stay out of jail and... err... sit in a room for a couple of years until he dies. Because he's 94. So I stand by what I said: it's not about justice or about this man, it's a stunt, a charade, perhaps to make some sort of point, or as the article itself says;
"The historic significance of the trial of Oskar Groening, and the opportunity it provides for to educate a generation that is all too distant from the horrors of the Holocaust."
In a couple of decades, WW2 and the Holocaust will be entirely outwith living memory. It sort of feels like anything that happens now is little more than an attempt to bookend history... a cry of "Lest we forget", perhaps, or more likely, purely for appearences.