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Have a 5 to boost it further.
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Congratulations! 
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And you have a silver, as well. ![Beer | [beer]](/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Mighty Oaks from little acorns grow"
<PrinceGeorgeVoice>Sausage Time!</PrinceGeorgeVoice>
I still think it is funny.
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Yeah on a way to become OriginalTpat 
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You might want to step up your post rate a little... 
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Nice! welcome to the 4 digits rep group  I'm pretty close to 2k myself
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Auschwitz Guard Arrested[^]
He claims he was only a cook.
I do not think it will help his case to claim he was in charge of the ovens.
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"This is a very positive step, we welcome the arrest, I hope this will only be the first of many arrests, trials and convictions of death camp guards,"
Seriously - how many can there be left when it happened 68 years ago? Are they gonna put 100 year old people in jail? Exactly how big a punishment is that when they've had 60+ years in freedom before being put to jail for a few years? 
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Make it a financial penalty.
Take away as much money and goods as were stolen from the families that were murdered (i.e. everything), and let the scumbag's family history record him as the one who left the family in poverty.
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There can only be a handful left. I think at this stage it's just to make a point and nothing more. I don't see what kind of punishment and rehabilitation you can realistically carry out on people who are barely alive, let alone conscious.
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Johnny J. wrote: Seriously - how many can there be left when it happened 68 years ago?
According to Wolfram Alpha[^, up to 459,000 people. Assuming all guards were male, German and over 17 in 1945. I was surprised by this figure.
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
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Keith Barrow wrote: I was surprised by this figure.
Me too - and I'm sure that NOT all guards were male. But that doesn't mean that all 459.000 were active nazis and it certainly doesn't mean that all of them were prison guards. But the possibility does theoretically exist.
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They weren't all male, nor were they all German. A better figure could be derived by getting the proportion of people working as guards/ancillary staff and mutiplying the figure by that ratio. It is hard to find figures for this. A closer rough guesstimate could be gained by getting the proportion in the Wermacht as these formed the bulk of the guards. At it's peak it had ~12,000,00 out of a male population of 39,000,000. The above figure comes down to 141,000. If we can find out the proportion of the Wermacht that worked in the camps we'd get a decent hand-waving figure I guess.
I'd be sursprised if the real figure is above the order of 100s.
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“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
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The camps were run not run by the wehrmacht, they were run by the SS, so you can cut the numbers even further.
But I made a shortcut, according to Wikipedia[^] the amount of guards in the camps were around 55000
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Thanks, I couldn't find that figure.
Using this[^] rather worrying looking page: we can guestimate an "eligible" population to work in the camps at ~12,000,000 (in 1939), the proportion of which who actually ended up working there was ~0.5%.
Given a consistent mortality rate for those who worked as guards and those who didn't (a bad assumption, many will have been hung/killed etc)
459,000 * 0.5% = 2295.
This seems a reasonable guestimate of the number left.
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“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
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Johnny J. wrote: I hope this will [only] be
..the start of my career and financially very rewarding.
Motivations aren't that hard to point.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The point is to let people that commit crimes such as this - organized systematic mass murder - that they'll never be able to stop looking over their shoulder. Never feel safe. Never be able to live a normal life. Dream about how the noose will feel around their neck when they hang.
This was a crime beyond calculation in its horror. Numbers, even pictures, don't give the true depth of it. Even something like the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC - with neat piles of people-stuff, each bit representing another life, can only begin to display a level of inhuman depravity.
So, let them be 100 years old - and string them up. The only caveat: if they have family I'd make them all watch.
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Johnny J. wrote: Seriously - how many can there be left when it happened 68 years ago?
It's the fact that there're so few left now that's driving them to go after every low level dirtbag that's left. 60 years ago taking every flunky involved to trial would have been logistically impossible even if all the ones who ran and hid could be found; now there're only a handful left and the hammer can be brought down on each survivor.
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--Zachris Topelius
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Heh heh.
If he was only a cook, or a low level guard, though, it doesn't seem right to go after him. Are we going to arrest everyone who ran PoW camps anywhere else in the world as well? I hope there's good evidence that he knew more was going on than a PoW camp.
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Seriously - not know what's going on? POW - full of civilians?
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That depends how many lies and distortions the people who were arranging these things told.
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a.k.a an Internment Camp?
Andy B
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I call Butlins[^]
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
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Gee, If this can happen after such a long time, I feel sorry for those who have worked at Guantanamo Bay. They are going to wake each morning and wonder if today is the day there will be a tap on the shoulder.
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There is hardly any comparison.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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