@Salt You see good sir I'm also very sarcastic, but I'm also very sleep deprived. Forgive my temporary stupidity. Edit: Forgot to mention that some people are so dumb I can't tell if they're joking
@@zlrs0113 he never gassed anybody. He and his family wouldn't have been tortured, even if he wouldn't go along with the extermination of jews, he would've been sent to a detention camp for that. The reason why nazis tortured their own people at times is because they suspected they had information regarding state security.
Valerie Konstantos well as he’s 94 now he must have been in his 20’s when he served the Reich which means a) he thought differently b) he was probably mandatorily conscripted c) he was following orders I don’t condone the nazis actions in anyway, I’m just saying. The man is old and has remorse and regret for what he did
These trials are incredibly in-depth. They'll check whether you only did what you were told, or if you did more than that. Also, they'll check exaclty how you ended up in that position. Most of the guilty ones volunteered. If you were forced, there's a good chance you won't be punished.
I have the feeling they literally just organized this as a publicity stunt, this man was practically forced to do these things, and every person in his position would’ve done this.
The people this dude led to the gas chambers where forced to do that, this old fart was a paid employee and an accessory to one of the worse war crimes in modern history. And you are defending him.
Hes a scapegoat coz they couldn't find anyone still alive who actually did the killing.....what next..."German who made coffee in the cafeteria of the factory that made the bolts that fixed the wheels to the train used to transport prisoners found guilty of accessory to murder ??"
*What a stupid comment lol* There were multiple German states in the 20th Century. His crimes were commited when he lived in the third reich. Now we he lives in the BRD. Please learn some history before you post bs like this.
@ Puli So The real sinister thing about his job was that he consciously knew that none of those people were getting any of their belongings back, they however didn’t know. They stripped themselves down and got their heads shaven and went into a room under the guise of a shower and that was it. Gold fillings were ripped out of people’s mouths, assets were stolen, and he was responsible for documenting it all. After the war he got no punishment or repercussions for his crimes and in a documentary referred to his time in auschwitz as if it was a summer camp. He got to eat good and drink stolen alcohol until he and his guard friends puked, had sex with female guards like Irma Grese. To the guards it was a holiday where they could live like kings and steal peoples stuff while also watching said people be burned in ovens.
Being in the SS was voluntary. Stop being an anti semite. Imagine if your grandfather was murdered and they found the murderer 70 years later. Would you just say "ah just let him go". Idiot.
@@theperson6179 By February 1942, Waffen-SS recruitment in south-east Europe turned into compulsory conscription for all German minorities of military age. From 1942 onwards, further units of non-Germanic recruits were formed. Yes i do believe that people need to face the consequences of their actions, but this guy either did his job or watch is family be killed along with the other people in the camps. Tragic for both sides im afraid.
@@asalamander7182 Unless he did something to you specifically, the apology isn't yours to accept either. So please don't start the group identity victimisation. In any case, the point is ' the person is no threat, so why throw him in a cell ' Think of it it terms of humanity, something that the Nazi lacked
Alvar Nuñez Bro you have to remember, he’s 94. He was most likely forced to be in the Nazi military because he would have died anyways, and even if he genuinely supported Hitlers cause, is there any reason at all to put him in jail
It’s not about him as much as it is about giving the victims and their families justice and setting a precedent in history that these things don’t go unpunished.
You know whats hillarious, that people in here are saying ''He shouldnt be following orders'' are the same people that say Russian soldiers have a choice not to fight in Ukraine,
You know what's hilarious, that the same people in here saying "He shouldn't follow orders" are the same people who said "Follow orders. Get vaxxed, or get fired", "Follow orders: Get vaxxed or go to a camp".
Which is irrelevant since he joined the SS and therefore become a criminal, not all SS had the "privilege" to actual kill , some have to do the dirty work at the desk
It's totally irrelevant if he is now a criminal for joining the SS 70+ years ago. Back then it was a police organisation, a legal part of the goverment with high social ranking. Not everything what the SS did was publicly said, like the holocaust. He probably joined for the repultation and the money. Imagine you would join the Bundeswehr and after a years you get the order to kill hundrets of civilians, you could either do it or get executed. Question, did you know from the beginning that you would be forced to kill the civilians? No you wouldn't but now you're in this missery, after the third world war you would be sent to prison for doing these things, how would you feel about it eventho you hadn't a choice? He was the accountant, he never killed someone, he did the money stuff, is this in anyway comparable to the person pulling the trigger? No it isn't, the one murdered the other counted the money. He was even charged for carrying a weapon back then, for "creating a place of fear", what should he have done? Throw the weapon away? It was part of his uniform, the police wouldn't throw their weapon away either. He didn't wanted the job after he noticed the things happening there, he wanted to fight at the front rather than doing the accountan stuff, he wasn't allowed to do so. Even the holocaust survivors forgive him, why not the goverment?
The Nazi ideology is racists and he was a Nazi and he joined the SS. The age is not a justification, I'm afraid. Obviously Oskar Groening wasn't a German patriot , he was a Nazi so he joined the SS instead of the regular military/police force. I'm sure every German saw people arrested, deported, fired from jobs, expelled from school, expelled from Germany or forced to emigrate. Ignorance is never a good justification, he wasn't a 6 year old child.
He was young and he wanted to serve his country doing desk-work for the army. After the war, when he found out about Holocaust denial, he spoke about against it and told the public about his experiences. If he hadn’t put himself on the line to make sure people knew what had actually happened, no one would even know he was involved and he’d be fine. It’s easy for us to judge the mistakes of his youth decades later, but what should count is that he spent the latter years of his life speaking out against what happened so people couldn’t deny it. He died a few years after this video, in 2018, before his sentence could begin. To imprison him at 96 years old would be not so much a punishment for what he did in his youth, but a punishment for his having the courage to talk about it when he was older. This was not justice.
absolutely, you get it. people loose sight what justice is. I thought about wanting to join a role in some sort of justice related feild for awhile, but honestly I don't know if people in the field know what justice is, and for that reason, what happens in the justice realm sometimes feels so wrong to me that I don't know if I could be a part of it.
@@kseniyabor5791 no that’s not how the law works, nor how the world works, that is idealism, you can’t fairly say that as a rule because there are far too many exceptions
This is against the rule of law. You shouldn't be punished for a crime that wasn't punishable at the time. And at the time, his actions were not punishable. If abortion was not criminalized in 1990 but is criminalized by 2023, a doctor who performed abortions in 1990 cannot be criminalized for that abortion. A very simple principle that is simply overturned here.
Welcome to world woke.....I think the governments of the world know that an asteroid the size of the moon is heading this way and just don't care what's happening in the real world .
No its not the nazi's broke almost every single INTERNATIONAL rule of war it might be that it was not punishable in german territory at the time but that doesnt matter for international law
@@Kai_075International law is kind of sketchy when it comes to Nazi Germany. To punish high ranking Nazi officials, the allies basically made up a bunch of legal concepts in the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, based on humanitarian principles, such as crimes against humanity. Codified international law wasn’t really a thing outside of maybe treatment of pow until after ww2. It would have been judicially more substantiated to put the Germans on trial under national law. That would have been easily manageable given that the Nazi Elites constantly acted against their own constitution.
The Nuremburg pronouncement "Genocide should never happen again" often times sprouted by the victorious allies but bizarrely never applied to the crimes Zionist Israel committed right at the moment of its murderous inception, Just three years after many of the Nazi leadership were sentence to death, the Nakba occurred in broad daylight yet not one of the surviving penetrators of the Nakba, has ever faced trial despite providing incriminating evidence regarding the part they played in the massacring of Palestinians as they rampage and destroyed over 500 villages, while driving a further 850.000 from their homes and farmsteads on the very land Israel now stands. To fact check the validity of this post, just stick (Old gloating solders of the Nakba) in u tubes or googles search bar. much like the present day livestream atrocities alternative news channel continually document; unless a politician with real integrated emerges from out of the cesspit of corruption the political classes now represents our entire species will be toast.
“Oh boy, I sure do love having my job checking luggage for the government in Germany 1942. I sure hope this career choice doesn’t have any consequences in 73 years”
@@psoodoe9897 I believe he wrote an excerpt about it later in life, and discussed the a particular indigent where an SS officer crushed a child’s head. I could be mistaking him for a different person, who I believe is an author but idk
that man did so many docs and interviews where he shot down and ridiculed deniers. leave him alone. he was a child caught up in a heinous chapter of our species. going after these 100 year old men is such a weak and neutered impulse. you had your chance to fight 80 years ago. dont blame some old man because you went like sheep to the slaughter
@Gxxbee I wont feel pity when you end up in jail in 60 years simply for partaking in society. Its pathetic how few people know about history. He was part of Hitler's youth. You went to school to learn about social studies and history, he went to learn about the evils of zionism and Aryan superiority. Buy yeah, its fine to throw him in jail at 94 for being brainwashed when he was 8. This is social justice at its most pathetic.
He likely got a suspended sentence or a conditional sentence order or something to that effect meaning he spends his time at home. This trial is to remind us that committing or being an accessory to mass murder even if you're just following orders: will not be tolerated, and is not an excuse. We will come for you until the end of your life.
Based on the math, he would’ve been around 18 at the time, meaning they’re putting a man in jail for a “crime” he committed when he was still very young, and all he did was carry luggage.
Tfw the government brainwashed you all your life, then conscripts you to sort luggage as a teenager, then puts you in jail for the rest of your life 80 years later.
You don't know when this video was recorded. It was uploaded 5 years ago and before that the video still needed to be edited and they needed to gather people too. So that would at least be at the age of 18
+1. People dont seem to understand how easy it is to brainwash human beings into doing horrible things. This happened to an entire generation of Germans. I'm all for publicly scrutinizing this man, but jailing him seems excessive
@@YH4867 did any of the allied soldiers in Iraq, Vietnam or wherever else were punished for their crimes against humanity including rapes, murders etc.?
@@PhucDat37 Often not. Do you think they should have been? I’m anticipating you’ll say yes, making the argument that the victors write history. You’d be right, but when possible, do we not have a moral responsibility to punish those complicit crimes against humanity, like genocide?
@@YH4867 you predicted me well :) of course we should punish those involved, i'm not defending this old german, especially since I'm from Poland so i got no love at all for wartime germans, i'm just pointing out that the american or british "heroes" are not so saint how the propaganda likes to paint them.
Also the americans had concentration camps with japanese germans and itialians of which millions of germans young and old were starved todeath yet barely anyone knows about the rein meadow death camps
@@jesseherring4745 POWs who fell under US hands were treated fairly. What was wrong was rounding up every japanese person in the US and sending them to a camp for the rest of the war in fear. However the treatment was decent. NOTHING like the soviet and axis POW camps.
“Okay, sooo instead of focusing on the modern day crimes, you know everyone is shooting one another. We’re instead going to focus on a 94 year old man for what he did over 70 YEARS ago."
its not that easy, prison guards where not people who where just given there position. Also people like him shouldnt just have been given a pass, its important to find these people and prosecute them.
@@cassiazaharia4776 He did not do it unwillingly. It is an undisputed fact that these people did this kind of work voluntarily. Had he refused, he would have lost any chance of a succesful career in the SS. But that is it. He would have been reassigned and that would have been it. This is why education is so extremely vital when it comes to these issues. People like you either don't know better or want to believe something else. He was not in any way forced to do what he has done.
@@christophersoper Yeah but it is not directly the man's fault. One could not exactly advocate for themself in strict nasty Nazi Germany, especially if you are under work by the government. The government at the time told you what to do and if you didn't do it, you would get severe consequences. A lot of guards did turn to suicide, however some thought they would be able to escape and be free, so they went through the motions of being told what to do. I'm not saying he is innocent. But if a certain amount of time has passed, 70 years, and he has been in good nature and the evil past has been put behind him, then I don't understand what the purpose of jail would serve. Justice? Ok..but what is the point of serving justice to a very old harmless man who has not done any harm in 70 years due to not being controlled by the Nazi government anymore. Forgive and leave it to the hands of God to make the proper judgement on the fate of the man in the afterlife.
Yeah one of dudes in the first couple of comment responses was talking about how he had a choice, the government forced u into the military as a kid/ young adult, he had no choice. I completely agree with u Le Matt, but what pisses me off. Not be racist here, I fell like the Japanese should have been slid off so easily. I had to grandpas who fault on that side of the war and were slaughtered in camps and those people had no punishment whatsoever
Some snowflake was probably offended that something happened 75 years ago and wanted to feel all righteous and "deliver justice" so they found some old German guy and were like "yes you are to blame for the government of your country's choices". This is honestly just virtue signaling.
international rules state that any order that goes above the law of country or violates humans rights should not be followed and soldiers will be held responseble for such actions. that's why the high ups that was sentenced also when claiming " i was just following orders" it was rejected under international law
@@caimanaraujo479 I get the point you attempted to make but you chose the wrong figure. Einstein would’ve been murdered along with the rest of the Jewish populations because he is Jewish.
I know right I mean I asked my dad a question since it look like ww3 is about to start. Dad if I was forced to kill the innocent shall I do it? He paused and said yes it's not about your country or beliefs it's about surviving if you don't you will be killed , do you want to be killed?
@@holycrusader7649 I used to think like that when I was younger But depending on the scenario I am sure today I would just get killed I hate some things more than my desire to see the sun rise
He probably died a Nazi as well... He probably believed in the slaughter of Jews and he probably passed those dangerous ideas onto everyone around him.
The germans didnt murder germans that didnt want to fight the war, they went to the camps to. Most of the deaths in the camps were due to typhoid from the head lice and from the allies bombing in coming roads and rail lines coming to the camps, so the people in the camps couldnt receive medicines and medical aid or food produce. So they either died from disease or starvation.
It was not like that. Regular Wehrmacht soldiers were not employed at the CCs. They did not even see the Camps. The ones who ran the camps were the evil ones and chose this position by themselves
@@ocho989 Tell me, would you prefer having to kill strangers, or have your family and yourself killed? And this situation doesn't even apply to him because he never took direct action to kill people.
@@sailorquestion3229 I would rather die then kill any stranger. Are you saying you would bash a small girls face in just to survive? Not sure how you could sleep I know I could not so I won’t want to go through every day regretting
@@sailorquestion3229 an auswitch doctor dident kill a single person and he lived til 2005 even when told to he refused and dident die. Rommel the highest commander refused to kill captured commanders and others. On the order of Adolf
He never made it to prison. He was found guilty and sentenced in 2018 but appeal after appeal after appeal kept him from beginning his time. He died in 2018 without having served a day of time.
If he was sentenced he'd still have been in prison during the appeals. Appeals don't keep you out of prison, they help you try to get out once you're in.
@@danieljones9436 Appeals themselves do not keep you out of prison, that is correct. However, and while rare, it is not impossible to be out of prison during the appeals process.
@@sorryifmycommentwasmeanwro2065 I'm not reading all that, but... 1: You say he had to do as he was told under a genocidal maniac? For all we know he could have done it happily under no force, just because he says otherwise doesn't mean it's true. And..... 2: He never beat England at all, it was England & the Russians who ended the atrocities.
@@marionchurch1644 Don't know what country you're in? but in the modern world you can only appeal once a sentence has been imposed, therefore you have to be imprisoned 1st to be able to appeal.
"YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR ACCESSORY TO MURDER!" "What? I didn't do anything!" "YOU SUPPLIED THE CRIMINALS WITH A BOTTLE OF WATER WHILE THEY WERE COMMITTING THE CRIME!" "They literally pointed a gun at me and said they'd kill me if I didn't..." "THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY, GET IN THE CAR"
international rules state that any order that goes above the law of country or violates humans rights should not be followed and soldiers will be held responseble for such actions. that's why the high ups that was sentenced also when claiming " i was just following orders" it was rejected under international law. so yes he would get punished like any soldier today or ranking officer
@@chozer1 He knew what would happen if he didn't follow orders. He would be killed. He basically had to choose between dying, or getting a chance at life. It's normal to choose living instead of dying. Ofcourse it was horrible what the nazis did, but I don't think that someone who is 94 years old should be sentenced for something that they did more than 70 yrs ago. He isn't a danger to anyone or anything. So it would be a waste of resources to put him in jail. He was told what to do by the government, now he is getting punished by the government for doing as he was told by the government.
@@paulimans well just because you know what might happen dosen't mean you are free to do as you are ordered. its an impossible situation if a government orders you to do somthing that violates humans rights and breaks international law you will still be punished for these actions every single higher ranking officer was punished after the war for ordering these actions and there was just 1 case if a doctor in auswitch that did not follow order and survived til the end of the war and did not get hanged because he tried to help the people and not kill them. however these officers also made the same claim. (i was just following orders from higher up) however court ruled that actions that are morally wrong should never be followed no matter the case and no immunity will be granted from such. legally he's in the wrong and morally no matter what he did
So this man was a baggage guard, is 94 years of age, and they feel the need to sentence him at the end of his lifetime? This isn’t justice for anything. This isn’t even revenge for something he did. They’re just persecuting him for their own personal satisfaction. Trying to get revenge in the nearest possible way they can by now.
Disagree. It‘s a late, yet necessary act to deal with the German past and was probably the last opportunity to set a legal example for future generations. The German legal system thereby acknowledged that when serving in a system like Auschwitz whose sole purpose is murder in any way, you bear a certain responsibility. If you think about it, 2 years isn‘t even that much, it just seems harsh because Gröning was 94. In the 50s and 60s when former Nazis continued to serve in high positions, it was impossible to get such a verdict. That is part of the reason why the trial happened so late. Doing it now at least clarifies that when you‘re in, you take a part of the responsibility for what has happened. And I say that without any hatred for Gröning as a person.
@@thefantom5171 1. you realize Luftwaffe is apart of the Wehrmact? the luftwaffe was the nazi air force. 2. He was likely trying to stray away from being killed on the front lines.
@@slugger7512 Not necessarily in the military but in civil services - as judges, policemen, even some politicians etc. - these were not all hardcore Nazis but it simply wasn't possible to build a completely "Nazi-free" environment in the 50s and 60s because of the power they had in the 40s. Germany even briefly had a former NSDAP member as chancellor in Kurt-Georg Kiesinger later on. And with so many people with a Nazi-related past, it was difficult to deal with this past and nobody seemed willing to persecute high-ranking guards and other SS members.
What a waste of tax dollars putting him in jail, he clearly wasn’t a threat anymore, should have been put in jail much sooner, I see absolutely no point to this.
Yes i agree. I'm Greek-American. Also rename Istanbul back to constantinople. No j/k. It's a sad, heartbreaking situation but the man is 94 years old. Putting him in jail at that age is elder abuse. Let him die in peace.
@@youtubeman998 Don't forget that you're a moron who doesn't realize he was ordered by his government. Just a reminder: You're still a moron and will die as a moron. Have a nice day moron.
@@HelloSirHowCanIScamYouToday Guess you were raised by a single mother & have the testosterone levels of a prepubescent female. Just because someone tells you to do something, doesn’t mean you have to do it, especially if it involves killing innocent people. You spineless maggot.
Y’all are coming to this man’s defense, but I’d like to remind everyone that working at the death camp was not mandatory…. The people who worked there chose to, out of their own volition. Even at a desk job, you heard the sounds of people screaming, followed by the smell of their burning bodies in the air… every day… and then partied and drank schnapps all night long with your colleagues. He knew EXACTLY what he was signing up for. He is not the victim.
this has to be a joke. hes 94 years old. 4 years in prison is a joke sentance just to tease him because they know he wont last 3. giving him life in prison would have been more dignifying. absolutely deplorable.
@Mr.ΠΩβΩDΨ the guy collected luggage. He was 16 at the time and yes, if he hadn't worked for the army he would've been punished by the Nazis. This trial is incredibly unnecessary
@Mr.ΠΩβΩDΨ So being conscripted into the army (and you know DEATH being the result of you not complying) and following orders (again, DEATH if you dont) is voluntary?
This trial wasn‘t about sending an old, harmless guy to prison. The punishment was not important in this thing. It was the verdict. It was an important case to show both the victoms and future generations that if you‘re part of a machinery designed to kill people, you will be guilty, even though you‘re not the one who did the killing. You will not be able to escape punishment if you just say „Well, I just did the bookkeeping of the whole stuff“, it does not matter if you‘re working in an organization only designed to kill. That message was important in this trial and in that sense also historic and in my opinion the right signal. It‘s a shame that it took so long, but it was good that it happened.
Bees nest Quite spreading the notion that he was forced to do it. Just cause you saw the “Thomas the Tank Engine Just Following Orders” Video, doesn’t mean the SS were forced into their positions. The SS and prison guard positions were the volunteer jobs that bigoted people were in line for.
Ghosty Just because some guards volunteered for the jobs, doesn’t mean all did. And even if they volunteered, they believed it was for a good cause, they were brainwashed and lied to by their government that what the nazi party aimed to achieve was a noble cause. They were taught that racism was good and supremacy was required. Many of them never even saw the carnage first hand, and many of the ones who did were scarred for life. They were threatened into supporting the party or else they would be imprisoned, tortured, and/or killed, alongside their family members and friends. Now of course this doesn’t make them completely innocent, but it doesn’t make them all monsters either. The only ones who truly were monsters were the ones pulling the strings, Hitler and other government officials, and people like Joseph Mengele who took joy in making others suffer.
@@MankiBoi234 I really hope you catch the blame for someone else's actions one of these days. It's a horrible feeling and you'd be a lot more open minded after it happens to you.
who are we kidding now? i mean seriously, he’s 94, the things that happened happened this wont change anything, this just shows how revengeful and disgusting some humans are, also he was only a guard, it wasnt his idea to do that. pathetic
@Hunter The Based God bruh it isn't his fault at all that millions of jews died. Have you thought about that maybe he just wanted to feed his family and keep them safe, so he became a guard? I bet you also think the same about the nazi soldiers, they didnt have any fault either
Comments like these are the same you'd find on a police defending himself from a blm protester.This comment is the mega equivalent of defending a black man after he got shot 16 times trying to stab a police officer.
A lot of Germans didn't agree with or like the Nazis. They lived in fear of them too. Their hold over Germany was so strong, none of it's citizens had much of a choice in what they did. I'm sure there were a lot of young guys that were forced into the Army for fear of death or imprisonment. Key word "Young". What would you have done at the age of 17+ had the government told you to suit up or be punished? Take that stuff into consideration before condemning people. If he's guilty of evil then he should face justice. If not, let him be.
He’s a member of the SS, he even admitted to going to the SS recruitment station and applying because he wanted to join the organization as opposed to having to serve with the conscripts
Does this means that if America ever loses a war on the home front, that when veterans of that war are 80 we can arrest them for being guards at POW camps too?
*Thugs selling drugs and killing people:* "Meh" *94 Year old man forced to do horrible things roaming free with what little time he has left:* "Now this, is an avengers level threat."
Most Nazis joined willingly, not all of them were forced to be Nazis. The remaining Nazis should still be held accountable for their atrocities because what they did was a nightmare. Just because this guy is old doesn't mean he doesn't deserve accountability for his atrocious acts, even if he wasn't directly involved with the war, he still was a Nazi, and anyone associated with them should be punished.
@@Rudolf215 And the entire point of this comment is that a 94 year old is no threat to anyone, but they'll still waste their time on him while there are real threats in today's time.
@@TheGamersRace I don't care if he was 100. He should still be held accountable for being a part of the Nazis whether by force or willingly. Simple as that, if you want to defend a Nazi go for it, but my opinion sticks.
I actually feel bad for this man I don’t know too much but a lot of people were forced into doing things there’s a chance he never wanted to do any of it
My problem with that is that's what they all say. They all deny accountability. Even the ones tried in the immediate aftermath of the war. But none of them stepped up to do anything about it, then or after the fact
Are you serious? They killed millions of innocent people. There's no excuse for such a crime, and "force" is such a lame excuse!! They brutally killed people with no remorse, be it 1 or 1 million. Taking a life on purpose is such a disgusting thing to do.
@@Ahgajsja He didnt kill anyone though, he lived for 70 years after the war ended as a free man and spoke on how tragic holocaust was when people were denying it
Next up: WW4 leader brought back from the future and trialed for crimes he hadn't committed yet, sentenced to life in prison, later escapes and fights in WW3 instead.
@Derone Cerrone he probably would have gotten executed if he “knew better” I’m not saying what he did was good I’m just saying that he had no other choice.
Jesus Christ are those people totally insane. The guy is 94 years old leave the man alone. First you force him into that organization and then you want to put him in jail for it?? Sick madness.
@@oscarleyden2819 or sent to the Eastern front which in it's own way would be worse. I know I would prefer execution over being involved in mass genocide but I can't speak for everyone.
@Rumi Davinci sounds to me like you'd gladly be among the next lot of fascists herding their victims into the cattle carts. All for a steady pay cheque and a warm meal hey?
Everyone says this to try and provide some kind of justification. This kind of comment is irrelevant. This isn't about what we would've done in his shoes this is about bringing people who participated in the holocaust to justice at the very least.
@Quack quack nobody in this modern neoliberal world economy fights for patriotism, at least not the western imperialist countries. They fight for material gain and interest. All the propaganda behind the wars is mere justification for the masses to be behind invading other countries and taking their natural resources and exploiting their labor. My point was that using the "I was just taking orders" justification is not an excuse. Despite taking orders you're still participating and contributing to a certain extent, big or small, and should be met with scrutiny and repercussions.
@@AnmlPeeweeIsHere me, an American bystander reading this comment: hmmm interesting, You are not wrong but it is my duty as an American citizen to disagree with anyone who criticizes the USA 🇺🇸
@@SaintJust1214 not his fault, he either stood guard, or he died. i doubt he had ever legitimately killed anyone. its still terrible, but not his fault.
Prince Andrew didnt do bad things to Jewish ppl as that just not tolerated n allowed as they would hunt him down to all corners of the world if that was the case,
This reminds me of late 90's cartoons where a protagonist will comedically beat up an old lady or trip a guy with a cane and then say, "justice is served" then pose like a body builder.
@@moderncrypto4371 I mean he had to do it or he would get executed for treason, and it isn’t like he give the murderers the gun, all he did was take the luggage. It was a terrible thing, but he had too or he would die.
@@moderncrypto4371 wow I moved luggage I was a direct or secondary cause of MILLIONS OF DEATHS. I have no mercy for those but really? this guy is just someone they had to get rid of because he “”was so bad”” guy literally moved luggage for a living
Yes because Nazi Germany and the nowadays Federal Republik of Germany have the exact same values after 70 years of serperation by the US and the Sowjet Russia who supervised Germany and controlled every move the goverment and the people were doing🙄
@@boatymcboatface4120 I don't see what point u are trying to make? The point is government laws shouldn't work retroactively , why should u be charged for something u did from an Era where it wasn't a crime?
@TheHabsSuck4Ever Even though men had to fight and serve their part in the third reich i can imagine it would still weigh heavy in the minds of those who took part in the war crimes that Nazi Germany commited.
@@youssefbenali4070 They're still people, and besides he's 94. You dont think he's had time to revise what part he took in the war. This late on just feel unnecessary, he's lived his life already.
@@rdgloveshouse I'm not sympathising, im just asking what difference would sticking a 94 in jail for something done 75+ years ago under conscription in Nazi Germany.
@@nicholasbrassard3512 It's kind of sad that justice can be molded by what the majority believe in. I mean, public opinion can be good, however, there are times when it doesn't need to be applied.
The poor guy was just a simple lower enlisted soldier dragged into the war given orders to just be a guard. Crazy how we still try to put blame on people that had no bigger picture involvement
despite everything I say let this old man go free, I just feel like I'll be cruel to put a 94 year old man behind bars for something that happened so long ago. The man already feels guilt for what he did so just let him enjoy his final years in peace.
I saw this man on a documentary. Up until then he had kept his history a secret. When asked why he had come forward he said that he was disgusted they so many people denied that it ever happened and he wanted to appear as a witness against these people.
this guy has literally 1 HP
why did I misread this as “this guy has literally [1 horsepower]...
bigthickjuicyrat69 69 you right
I swear he's one shot
i’m dead💀💀
@@unklai6709 who cares
His cellmates are gonna have a hard time figuring out what he's in for
😂
He died in 2018 before he could even enter prison.
@@rainerwahnsinn8411 bruh
He’s dead
Im pretty sure this guy was camping in dday
“Sentenced to life in federal prison.”
“Few weeks doesn’t seem that bad!”
A few day sentence doesn’t seem so bad
The comment above u says he actually died before the sentence could even begin
He read the court papers
There's good food in the feds too
I mean he got four years. If he didn't die before doing the time, he probably died or will die serving the time.
It wasn't like he was shooting people or pushing them in a gas chamber. He was an accountant. He also spoke out against Holocaust Denial.
@@zlrs0113 Well you see, he's still a Nazi.
@Salt Evidently it's not, look at some of the other comments
@Salt You see good sir I'm also very sarcastic, but I'm also very sleep deprived. Forgive my temporary stupidity.
Edit: Forgot to mention that some people are so dumb I can't tell if they're joking
@Salt Well, I wish you a good week!
@@zlrs0113 he never gassed anybody. He and his family wouldn't have been tortured, even if he wouldn't go along with the extermination of jews, he would've been sent to a detention camp for that. The reason why nazis tortured their own people at times is because they suspected they had information regarding state security.
He looks like he's literally been resurrected for his trial
If you think he looks bad look at prince philip
@@LUFCLiving he looks moldy 😟
To be fair he looks good for his age
@@poopy3772 DUHHH that's how old people look rarely
Prince Philip died today
He's 94! He's not a threat anymore. If u wanna throw him prison you shoulda did it maybe 30 years or so ago, why now
Ya really let's just throw everyone in Germany that worked in any job during ww2 in jail
They are just doing it because they can
@@xofcipher5279 ya because a lot of other countries did that too
He died in March 2018
I bet you wouldn't have said that if he was black
He’s 94. His body is already acting as a prison.
Milo The Russian Blue smartest comment in the comment section actually
Valerie Konstantos shooting him may be a better fate than what he has to deal with now.
Valerie Konstantos well as he’s 94 now he must have been in his 20’s when he served the Reich which means a) he thought differently b) he was probably mandatorily conscripted c) he was following orders
I don’t condone the nazis actions in anyway, I’m just saying. The man is old and has remorse and regret for what he did
@@jolenaagapisou3803 .....
Trini_Aviation - your reasons for excusing him are invalid, plus how do you know he’s regretting his past??
Germany 1944: Guard the baggage!
Germany 2016: How dare you guard the baggage!
I mean, he was a soldier, a guard, whatever, but if he refused to do what was told, he would be executed for treason.
Ikr even lots of the higher ups where set free because they where only following orders
These trials are incredibly in-depth. They'll check whether you only did what you were told, or if you did more than that. Also, they'll check exaclty how you ended up in that position. Most of the guilty ones volunteered. If you were forced, there's a good chance you won't be punished.
@@JackiTheOne unless you have a hate mob filled public
He wasn't refused to going to the SS, nobody was. But to be honest lot of them did that so they don't have go to war. It was still his choice though.
He was only a book keeper 😞
Inmate: “Whatcha in for?”
94 year old man: “I helped kill 300,000 people”
Inmate: *nervous sweating*
He died before his prison sentence so nobody would ever experience the fear that they would’ve got if he said that
I know this is a joke
@@7AM.Adrian Lol, in this day and age have to address it cause people dont have enough sense to connect the dots lol.
"i played undertale genocide run in real life"
During his phone call: Guys please, I think I'm in the same cell as a super villain
"You're sentenced to life."
"Sure I can wait 5 minutes."
lol
He died at the age of 96 in 2018
@@NeonAspect good
@@toddsmith1969 😳
@@anthrax2844 can I help you?
I have the feeling they literally just organized this as a publicity stunt, this man was practically forced to do these things, and every person in his position would’ve done this.
The people this dude led to the gas chambers where forced to do that, this old fart was a paid employee and an accessory to one of the worse war crimes in modern history. And you are defending him.
Guy is half dead he probably doesn’t even remember
@Amuro Ray
Careful, that saying goes much, much further than you think....
@Amuro Ray Ah yes throw a 94 year old in jail for following orders given to him by a dictatorship.
@Amuro Ray Based
@@alexs06347 nah you just don't understand
Only 90's kids remember
Hes a scapegoat coz they couldn't find anyone still alive who actually did the killing.....what next..."German who made coffee in the cafeteria of the factory that made the bolts that fixed the wheels to the train used to transport prisoners found guilty of accessory to murder ??"
Oh my god YES!!!!! Thank you.
Preach
Thomas was just following orders
@@米空軍パイロット I see what you did there
Probably go after Germans born in the Reich next. Baby was near German flag. Clearly he/she killed thousands.
Crazy how Germany convicted him for things Germany made him do
*What a stupid comment lol*
There were multiple German states in the 20th Century.
His crimes were commited when he lived in the third reich.
Now we he lives in the BRD.
Please learn some history before you post bs like this.
* Germany under a dictatorship
@@kayvan671 carrying luggage is a crime?
@@puliso1749
Well no.
He was part of this death machine but he really had no choice.
Otherwise he would have been send to war.
@ Puli So The real sinister thing about his job was that he consciously knew that none of those people were getting any of their belongings back, they however didn’t know. They stripped themselves down and got their heads shaven and went into a room under the guise of a shower and that was it. Gold fillings were ripped out of people’s mouths, assets were stolen, and he was responsible for documenting it all. After the war he got no punishment or repercussions for his crimes and in a documentary referred to his time in auschwitz as if it was a summer camp. He got to eat good and drink stolen alcohol until he and his guard friends puked, had sex with female guards like Irma Grese. To the guards it was a holiday where they could live like kings and steal peoples stuff while also watching said people be burned in ovens.
As if a twenty year old could stop the holocaust
imagine the government arresting you for something they ordered you to do
This government is different and the government in that era was different
imagine comparing the former german government with the one today
Being in the SS was voluntary. Stop being an anti semite. Imagine if your grandfather was murdered and they found the murderer 70 years later. Would you just say "ah just let him go". Idiot.
@@theperson6179 By February 1942, Waffen-SS recruitment in south-east Europe turned into compulsory conscription for all German minorities of military age. From 1942 onwards, further units of non-Germanic recruits were formed.
Yes i do believe that people need to face the consequences of their actions, but this guy either did his job or watch is family be killed along with the other people in the camps. Tragic for both sides im afraid.
@@theperson6179 they didn’t say he murdered anyone he was just an accountant.
He’s 94 years old he’s already lived his life. Prison isn’t a punishment anymore he doesn’t have much life left
I am a salamander.
@@asalamander7182 Unless he did something to you specifically, the apology isn't yours to accept either.
So please don't start the group identity victimisation.
In any case, the point is ' the person is no threat, so why throw him in a cell '
Think of it it terms of humanity, something that the Nazi lacked
@@asalamander7182 this isn’t an apology, it’s throwing an old man in jail, and no one asked for you to tell us who can talk about what.
Then you shouldn't be opposed to just lynching him, which would have been a better punishment
Alvar Nuñez Bro you have to remember, he’s 94. He was most likely forced to be in the Nazi military because he would have died anyways, and even if he genuinely supported Hitlers cause, is there any reason at all to put him in jail
A man that age has no desire to do much of anything. He's lived his whole life. Prison will not affect him much.
It’s not about him as much as it is about giving the victims and their families justice and setting a precedent in history that these things don’t go unpunished.
alright then it won’t be a problem if he is in prison then, correct?
@@alejandra.1946 that's not the problem here.
The problem is wasting time and money.
German prison is like a retirement home anyway
@@Whatorwellsaid21 how is this justice though? Him being in prison doesn't change much, he died like 2 years ago anyways
This is not justified but rather disgusting,
He was young and a soldier. If he said no they would have shot him, he had no choice
LOL no
@@Dafty2k lol yes
LOLOL NAH.
105 year old me going to jail in 2107 for not wearing a mask in 2020.
That's deep
deep
deep
Some crimes don’t have a statute of limitations
Imagine comparing wearing a mask to literal genocide on humans simply because of their religion
Judge: "You have been sentenced!"
German Guard: "k" *Dies in court*
Judge: ". . ."
Jury: ". . ."
Court: ". . ."
Made me laugh out loud
Rip
Rage quit
There's no jury in Germany fyi
It would be the most saddest 'k' ever
He's lowkey gonna have a nicer time in prison than in a nursing home.
Well he died before he got to go to that prison
@@akihui3846source?!?!?
@@justsomerand0 google?
That’s just in new york
@@justsomerand0 he died 4 years ago
You know whats hillarious, that people in here are saying ''He shouldnt be following orders'' are the same people that say Russian soldiers have a choice not to fight in Ukraine,
Agreed, all they can do is follow order from the higher ups or get punished. Sad truth
If I were in Thier shoes I would have become a Nazi myself I mean if I didn't I would prob be killed or imprisoned
Every German alive today would be a na zi if he was born at that time
You know what's hilarious, that the same people in here saying "He shouldn't follow orders" are the same people who said "Follow orders. Get vaxxed, or get fired", "Follow orders: Get vaxxed or go to a camp".
Think about what the Soviets did to their own people during WW2.
Your title is missleading, he was the accountant not really a guard.
Which is irrelevant since he joined the SS and therefore become a criminal, not all SS had the "privilege" to actual kill , some have to do the dirty work at the desk
It's totally irrelevant if he is now a criminal for joining the SS 70+ years ago. Back then it was a police organisation, a legal part of the goverment with high social ranking. Not everything what the SS did was publicly said, like the holocaust. He probably joined for the repultation and the money. Imagine you would join the Bundeswehr and after a years you get the order to kill hundrets of civilians, you could either do it or get executed. Question, did you know from the beginning that you would be forced to kill the civilians? No you wouldn't but now you're in this missery, after the third world war you would be sent to prison for doing these things, how would you feel about it eventho you hadn't a choice? He was the accountant, he never killed someone, he did the money stuff, is this in anyway comparable to the person pulling the trigger? No it isn't, the one murdered the other counted the money. He was even charged for carrying a weapon back then, for "creating a place of fear", what should he have done? Throw the weapon away? It was part of his uniform, the police wouldn't throw their weapon away either. He didn't wanted the job after he noticed the things happening there, he wanted to fight at the front rather than doing the accountan stuff, he wasn't allowed to do so. Even the holocaust survivors forgive him, why not the goverment?
The Nazi ideology is racists and he was a Nazi and he joined the SS. The age is not a justification, I'm afraid.
Obviously Oskar Groening wasn't a German patriot , he was a Nazi so he joined the SS instead of the regular military/police force.
I'm sure every German saw people arrested, deported, fired from jobs, expelled from school, expelled from Germany or forced to emigrate.
Ignorance is never a good justification, he wasn't a 6 year old child.
@@JK-gh9ej always... We always have a choice and unless you are faced with a similar reality then you can't really say, yay or nay?
He guarded baggage. He helped in the process
He's 94... Does it even matter at that point?
what's the point of Prosecuting people that don't have much time left
@@xofcipher5279 he might live another 20 yrs
XOF cipher so the survivors feel a bit of relief and don’t protest the government for letting them off the hook
@@xLiLtEmPeR he died in 2018
@@LuxuryIncorp he was ordered to, he didn't have a choice.
He was young and he wanted to serve his country doing desk-work for the army. After the war, when he found out about Holocaust denial, he spoke about against it and told the public about his experiences. If he hadn’t put himself on the line to make sure people knew what had actually happened, no one would even know he was involved and he’d be fine. It’s easy for us to judge the mistakes of his youth decades later, but what should count is that he spent the latter years of his life speaking out against what happened so people couldn’t deny it. He died a few years after this video, in 2018, before his sentence could begin. To imprison him at 96 years old would be not so much a punishment for what he did in his youth, but a punishment for his having the courage to talk about it when he was older. This was not justice.
absolutely, you get it. people loose sight what justice is. I thought about wanting to join a role in some sort of justice related feild for awhile, but honestly I don't know if people in the field know what justice is, and for that reason, what happens in the justice realm sometimes feels so wrong to me that I don't know if I could be a part of it.
One always pays for his sins. No matter what.
Have you ever read the messages? He wasn’t an officer or supervisor, he was just a guard.
@@kseniyabor5791 no that’s not how the law works, nor how the world works, that is idealism, you can’t fairly say that as a rule because there are far too many exceptions
He was a duxkimg guard at aushwit
This is against the rule of law. You shouldn't be punished for a crime that wasn't punishable at the time. And at the time, his actions were not punishable. If abortion was not criminalized in 1990 but is criminalized by 2023, a doctor who performed abortions in 1990 cannot be criminalized for that abortion. A very simple principle that is simply overturned here.
Welcome to world woke.....I think the governments of the world know that an asteroid the size of the moon is heading this way and just don't care what's happening in the real world .
Genocide, even connected to a job, is always clearly wrong.
No its not the nazi's broke almost every single INTERNATIONAL rule of war it might be that it was not punishable in german territory at the time but that doesnt matter for international law
@@Kai_075International law is kind of sketchy when it comes to Nazi Germany. To punish high ranking Nazi officials, the allies basically made up a bunch of legal concepts in the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, based on humanitarian principles, such as crimes against humanity. Codified international law wasn’t really a thing outside of maybe treatment of pow until after ww2. It would have been judicially more substantiated to put the Germans on trial under national law. That would have been easily manageable given that the Nazi Elites constantly acted against their own constitution.
The Nuremburg pronouncement "Genocide should never happen again" often times sprouted by the victorious allies but bizarrely never applied to the crimes Zionist Israel committed right at the moment of its murderous inception, Just three years after many of the Nazi leadership were sentence to death, the Nakba occurred in broad daylight yet not one of the surviving penetrators of the Nakba, has ever faced trial despite providing incriminating evidence regarding the part they played in the massacring of Palestinians as they rampage and destroyed over 500 villages, while driving a further 850.000 from their homes and farmsteads on the very land Israel now stands. To fact check the validity of this post, just stick (Old gloating solders of the Nakba) in u tubes or googles search bar. much like the present day livestream atrocities alternative news channel continually document; unless a politician with real integrated emerges from out of the cesspit of corruption the political classes now represents our entire species will be toast.
Meanwhile the red army guards in Gulag are not punished
Wait what did they did?
@@juanp2936 search gulag in google
Yeah my thoughts exactly
Because they didn't oppose the jews
n word It’s basically a Soviet Concentration camp, but 3-4 times as many people died.
He is 94 years old for christ sakes and the german government which doesn’t even exist anymore made him do mandatory conscription.
Not quite right - Camp guards were volunteers for the job, conscripts were sent to the front.
Harvey I’d rather work in a camp than get killed or thrown into a camp by the soviets
trial was a waste, for sure, but he definitely was aware of what he was signing up for when he was briefed.
Oskar Gröning
Born: June 10, 1921, Nienburg, Germany
Died: March 9, 2018
Years of service: 1944-45
Oh... No yesterday in a dream i was driving the train who brought the prisoners 😵😵😵 How cruel I am......... 12 year old cruel person........
“Oh boy, I sure do love having my job checking luggage for the government in Germany 1942.
I sure hope this career choice doesn’t have any consequences in 73 years”
Ehh he worked at Auschwitz.. he knew what was going on.
@@Just-the-Gameplay I don’t mean to sound rude but how does him knowing about the camps affect his job which is similar to airport security?
@@psoodoe9897 I believe he wrote an excerpt about it later in life, and discussed the a particular indigent where an SS officer crushed a child’s head. I could be mistaking him for a different person, who I believe is an author but idk
@@trutle88 Yikes, that’s brutal...
@@psoodoe9897 Wait until you hear about the imperial Japanese
that man did so many docs and interviews where he shot down and ridiculed deniers. leave him alone. he was a child caught up in a heinous chapter of our species. going after these 100 year old men is such a weak and neutered impulse. you had your chance to fight 80 years ago. dont blame some old man because you went like sheep to the slaughter
Give the man house arrest....he is 94 I understand what he did was way wrong.....but he's 94....
he shouldntve even been given any sentence. germany forced him to go and collect money from people when they arrived
@Gxxbee He didn't tho?
@Gxxbee I wont feel pity when you end up in jail in 60 years simply for partaking in society. Its pathetic how few people know about history. He was part of Hitler's youth. You went to school to learn about social studies and history, he went to learn about the evils of zionism and Aryan superiority. Buy yeah, its fine to throw him in jail at 94 for being brainwashed when he was 8. This is social justice at its most pathetic.
He likely got a suspended sentence or a conditional sentence order or something to that effect meaning he spends his time at home.
This trial is to remind us that committing or being an accessory to mass murder even if you're just following orders: will not be tolerated, and is not an excuse. We will come for you until the end of your life.
@@SpenserRoger well guess what? Its not his fault at all. He was forced to do it.
Based on the math, he would’ve been around 18 at the time, meaning they’re putting a man in jail for a “crime” he committed when he was still very young, and all he did was carry luggage.
It's the Mossad equivalent of the UK police sweeps that recover bike wheels and butter knives off the streets.
Tfw the government brainwashed you all your life, then conscripts you to sort luggage as a teenager, then puts you in jail for the rest of your life 80 years later.
@@TallCanDan02 fr
@@TallCanDan02 well the youth was brainwashed so u do have to feel bad
You don't know when this video was recorded. It was uploaded 5 years ago and before that the video still needed to be edited and they needed to gather people too. So that would at least be at the age of 18
Probably gave him ptsd just thinking about this. Probably hated himself his entire life.
+1. People dont seem to understand how easy it is to brainwash human beings into doing horrible things. This happened to an entire generation of Germans. I'm all for publicly scrutinizing this man, but jailing him seems excessive
@@mikeh4818 For being complicit in crimes against humanity?
@@YH4867 did any of the allied soldiers in Iraq, Vietnam or wherever else were punished for their crimes against humanity including rapes, murders etc.?
@@PhucDat37 Often not. Do you think they should have been? I’m anticipating you’ll say yes, making the argument that the victors write history. You’d be right, but when possible, do we not have a moral responsibility to punish those complicit crimes against humanity, like genocide?
@@YH4867 you predicted me well :) of course we should punish those involved, i'm not defending this old german, especially since I'm from Poland so i got no love at all for wartime germans, i'm just pointing out that the american or british "heroes" are not so saint how the propaganda likes to paint them.
Imagine a Isreali soldier getting convicted for war crime in Palestine.
This is the jews flexing their power here, putting a 105 year old in prison for something that didnt even happen
Cell mate: so what you in for?
300,000 accounts of accessory to murder
Cell mate: (👁👄👁)
Those emojis ruined it.. dislike
GJTE Feel good about yourself?
GJTE tf
Tbh those emojis are such an overused meme. They kill it.
G C nah
Meanwhile Japanese and soviet camp guards roam free. What a joke
Also the americans had concentration camps with japanese germans and itialians of which millions of germans young and old were starved todeath yet barely anyone knows about the rein meadow death camps
Jesse Herring I knew about the Japanese camps but unfortunately history is written by the victors
Jesse Herring millions were starved? There were about 4500 total deaths at 19 camps.
@@jesseherring4745 show me those statistics jimbo
@@jesseherring4745 POWs who fell under US hands were treated fairly. What was wrong was rounding up every japanese person in the US and sending them to a camp for the rest of the war in fear. However the treatment was decent. NOTHING like the soviet and axis POW camps.
“Okay, sooo instead of focusing on the modern day crimes, you know everyone is shooting one another. We’re instead going to focus on a 94 year old man for what he did over 70 YEARS ago."
What he did unwillingly*
its not that easy, prison guards where not people who where just given there position. Also people like him shouldnt just have been given a pass, its important to find these people and prosecute them.
Nicotin__ I think he already died tho since this was 5 years ago
@@cassiazaharia4776 He did not do it unwillingly. It is an undisputed fact that these people did this kind of work voluntarily. Had he refused, he would have lost any chance of a succesful career in the SS. But that is it. He would have been reassigned and that would have been it. This is why education is so extremely vital when it comes to these issues. People like you either don't know better or want to believe something else. He was not in any way forced to do what he has done.
Everyone is shooting one another? In Germany? That's new.
This is sick. Let him go!
He’s so old there’s literally no point. Just let him go
You should read what 1:29 says
@@christophersoper Yeah but it is not directly the man's fault. One could not exactly advocate for themself in strict nasty Nazi Germany, especially if you are under work by the government. The government at the time told you what to do and if you didn't do it, you would get severe consequences. A lot of guards did turn to suicide, however some thought they would be able to escape and be free, so they went through the motions of being told what to do. I'm not saying he is innocent. But if a certain amount of time has passed, 70 years, and he has been in good nature and the evil past has been put behind him, then I don't understand what the purpose of jail would serve. Justice? Ok..but what is the point of serving justice to a very old harmless man who has not done any harm in 70 years due to not being controlled by the Nazi government anymore. Forgive and leave it to the hands of God to make the proper judgement on the fate of the man in the afterlife.
Yeah one of dudes in the first couple of comment responses was talking about how he had a choice, the government forced u into the military as a kid/ young adult, he had no choice. I completely agree with u Le Matt, but what pisses me off. Not be racist here, I fell like the Japanese should have been slid off so easily. I had to grandpas who fault on that side of the war and were slaughtered in camps and those people had no punishment whatsoever
Sorry for a lot of misspelled words
They couldn't let him go, or he would have collected money again. The horror.
Next up: Alexander the Great raised from dead to be trialed for burning down Persepolis.
😂
@WILEY CRONZ Technically all presidents have caused murder because they run the entire country.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks
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They really didnt need to do this to a low ranking guard....
Some snowflake was probably offended that something happened 75 years ago and wanted to feel all righteous and "deliver justice" so they found some old German guy and were like "yes you are to blame for the government of your country's choices". This is honestly just virtue signaling.
Didn’t they get a janitor a bit back?
international rules state that any order that goes above the law of country or violates humans rights should not be followed and soldiers will be held responseble for such actions. that's why the high ups that was sentenced also when claiming " i was just following orders" it was rejected under international law
Political theatre
@@krostan6570 political theatre? my mum was one of the people who payed money to see the guy being prosecuted. he deserves justice.
Bro dont even know he’s being arrested 😂😂 “Oh my these ppl love me so much, they’re giving me a home !”
Not much difference from where he going to being in a long term care facility.
😂
I am certain that 99% of those who say that obeying orders is not proper defense, would also obey orders to save their own life.
Einstein didnt kill anyone, despite being german on ww2.
@@caimanaraujo479 he was Jewish...
@@caimanaraujo479 I get the point you attempted to make but you chose the wrong figure. Einstein would’ve been murdered along with the rest of the Jewish populations because he is Jewish.
I know right I mean I asked my dad a question since it look like ww3 is about to start. Dad if I was forced to kill the innocent shall I do it? He paused and said yes it's not about your country or beliefs it's about surviving if you don't you will be killed , do you want to be killed?
@@holycrusader7649 I used to think like that when I was younger
But depending on the scenario I am sure today I would just get killed
I hate some things more than my desire to see the sun rise
The old man literally died before he could even enter his cell. Such a waste of tax money
It was a waste of money even if he did enter his cell
@Zabe Hameed and guarded luggage
@Zabe Hameed you guys are idiots.
He probably died a Nazi as well... He probably believed in the slaughter of Jews and he probably passed those dangerous ideas onto everyone around him.
@@1125Spikeboy my man literally stood near luggage with a gun, that was his literal job
Guy in his head is like “all I did was bring that officer a coffee!”
A comment with a thousand likes with one comment
Not anymore
@@olivernorth7418 it was a joke
@@exotiq5367 The original commenter is clearly trying to rehabilitate the guard's image.
@@olivernorth7418 No he wasnt
Bro was on half a heart 💀
Germany: Work for us or get killed.
Also Germany: Life in prison.
The germans didnt murder germans that didnt want to fight the war, they went to the camps to.
Most of the deaths in the camps were due to typhoid from the head lice and from the allies bombing in coming roads and rail lines coming to the camps, so the people in the camps couldnt receive medicines and medical aid or food produce. So they either died from disease or starvation.
@@thestonecollector.3416 so death?
@@thestonecollector.3416 I would choose gas chamber over starvation or death by head lice or typhoid
@@thestonecollector.3416 bottom of the line it was unacceptable
It was not like that. Regular Wehrmacht soldiers were not employed at the CCs. They did not even see the Camps. The ones who ran the camps were the evil ones and chose this position by themselves
Next video: ghost of Mongolian soldier was sentenced to life in prison after giving water to one of their comrade
Don't try to deny this old man crimes
@@ocho989 Tell me, would you prefer having to kill strangers, or have your family and yourself killed?
And this situation doesn't even apply to him because he never took direct action to kill people.
@@ocho989 omw to get arrested in 2746 for not wearing a mask in 2020
@@sailorquestion3229 I would rather die then kill any stranger. Are you saying you would bash a small girls face in just to survive? Not sure how you could sleep I know I could not so I won’t want to go through every day regretting
@@sailorquestion3229 an auswitch doctor dident kill a single person and he lived til 2005 even when told to he refused and dident die. Rommel the highest commander refused to kill captured commanders and others. On the order of Adolf
Germany: DO THAT NOW!
Germany 75 years later: WHY DID YOU DO THAT YOU KILLER?
It was Nazi Germany then.
It was another conjuncture, this German isn't that German
@@ObsidianMirage i know, it is a joke 😂😂
@@alancosta4760 its a joke😂😂
@@gmbhalex8069 A joke is suppose to be funny
He's 94 what is he gonna do 💀
How he sleep all these years 😢
104 year old me realizing I'm going to jail because I got within 40 ft. Of a concentration camp back in 1943.
Noah Shackelford lol
Not funny
callumdd0123 well, it’s true he never even got within 40 ft of a single concentration camp.
@@Lushyyyyx yes it is lol
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He never made it to prison. He was found guilty and sentenced in 2018 but appeal after appeal after appeal kept him from beginning his time. He died in 2018 without having served a day of time.
If he was sentenced he'd still have been in prison during the appeals. Appeals don't keep you out of prison, they help you try to get out once you're in.
@@danieljones9436 Appeals themselves do not keep you out of prison, that is correct. However, and while rare, it is not impossible to be out of prison during the appeals process.
@@sorryifmycommentwasmeanwro2065 I'm not reading all that, but...
1: You say he had to do as he was told under a genocidal maniac? For all we know he could have done it happily under no force, just because he says otherwise doesn't mean it's true. And.....
2: He never beat England at all, it was England & the Russians who ended the atrocities.
@@marionchurch1644 Don't know what country you're in? but in the modern world you can only appeal once a sentence has been imposed, therefore you have to be imprisoned 1st to be able to appeal.
Good. He should've never had a legal battle to begin with.
"YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR ACCESSORY TO MURDER!"
"What? I didn't do anything!"
"YOU SUPPLIED THE CRIMINALS WITH A BOTTLE OF WATER WHILE THEY WERE COMMITTING THE CRIME!"
"They literally pointed a gun at me and said they'd kill me if I didn't..."
"THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY, GET IN THE CAR"
"but that was 71 years ago"
Init
@@crimsonify6245 makes it worse
They wouldn’t have killed him though
@@lisap.31 u sure?
Wanna know the difference between a cow and the holocaust? A cow can only be milked for five years the holocaust is being milked after 80
Excellent! Thank you.
Guy: *Does what he told* Gets Punished
Guy: *Doesn’t do what he’s told* Gets Punished
No. He was part of the SS unit.
international rules state that any order that goes above the law of country or violates humans rights should not be followed and soldiers will be held responseble for such actions. that's why the high ups that was sentenced also when claiming " i was just following orders" it was rejected under international law. so yes he would get punished like any soldier today or ranking officer
@@chozer1 He knew what would happen if he didn't follow orders. He would be killed. He basically had to choose between dying, or getting a chance at life. It's normal to choose living instead of dying. Ofcourse it was horrible what the nazis did, but I don't think that someone who is 94 years old should be sentenced for something that they did more than 70 yrs ago. He isn't a danger to anyone or anything. So it would be a waste of resources to put him in jail. He was told what to do by the government, now he is getting punished by the government for doing as he was told by the government.
@@paulimans well just because you know what might happen dosen't mean you are free to do as you are ordered. its an impossible situation if a government orders you to do somthing that violates humans rights and breaks international law you will still be punished for these actions every single higher ranking officer was punished after the war for ordering these actions and there was just 1 case if a doctor in auswitch that did not follow order and survived til the end of the war and did not get hanged because he tried to help the people and not kill them. however these officers also made the same claim. (i was just following orders from higher up) however court ruled that actions that are morally wrong should never be followed no matter the case and no immunity will be granted from such. legally he's in the wrong and morally no matter what he did
@@chozer1 those rules didn't exist back then so get a better argument
Tbh this was a little bit uncalled for
Nah
it was a lot of uncalled for
Well when you know who’s in charge of everything...banks, media, sports, behind the curtains in politics-it makes sense.
We're the good woke government now... Honest...
Hello Stirner
So this man was a baggage guard, is 94 years of age, and they feel the need to sentence him at the end of his lifetime? This isn’t justice for anything. This isn’t even revenge for something he did. They’re just persecuting him for their own personal satisfaction. Trying to get revenge in the nearest possible way they can by now.
Disagree. It‘s a late, yet necessary act to deal with the German past and was probably the last opportunity to set a legal example for future generations. The German legal system thereby acknowledged that when serving in a system like Auschwitz whose sole purpose is murder in any way, you bear a certain responsibility. If you think about it, 2 years isn‘t even that much, it just seems harsh because Gröning was 94. In the 50s and 60s when former Nazis continued to serve in high positions, it was impossible to get such a verdict. That is part of the reason why the trial happened so late. Doing it now at least clarifies that when you‘re in, you take a part of the responsibility for what has happened. And I say that without any hatred for Gröning as a person.
@@thefantom5171 Is it better to fight in the army? Is it better to actually kill other soldiers? Nah, I'd rather count some money
@@MankiBoi234 former nazis didn't continue to serve because Germany wasn't allowed to form a military.
@@thefantom5171 1. you realize Luftwaffe is apart of the Wehrmact? the luftwaffe was the nazi air force. 2. He was likely trying to stray away from being killed on the front lines.
@@slugger7512 Not necessarily in the military but in civil services - as judges, policemen, even some politicians etc. - these were not all hardcore Nazis but it simply wasn't possible to build a completely "Nazi-free" environment in the 50s and 60s because of the power they had in the 40s. Germany even briefly had a former NSDAP member as chancellor in Kurt-Georg Kiesinger later on. And with so many people with a Nazi-related past, it was difficult to deal with this past and nobody seemed willing to persecute high-ranking guards and other SS members.
You act like he had much of a choice in that society.
What a waste of tax dollars putting him in jail, he clearly wasn’t a threat anymore, should have been put in jail much sooner, I see absolutely no point to this.
Doesn't matter tho.
He stole people's time, no matter how much they had left
He built his own grave
It isn't about punishment, it's about sending a message to all the remaining Nazis
@@lartas7960 what kind of msg? That u get jailed for 80 years later? /s
Next: Sentencing Mehmed II to prison for ending the Byzantine Empire
Yes i agree. I'm Greek-American. Also rename Istanbul back to constantinople. No j/k. It's a sad, heartbreaking situation but the man is 94 years old. Putting him in jail at that age is elder abuse. Let him die in peace.
Sentencing Attila for sacking Rome.
@@olaff9771 sentencing Caeser to attack Gaul
Yes please
@Nefomemes Yes it was called Konstantinniye. Istanbul was the name after Turkey took over.
At this point it's not even justice anymore, it's just revenge.
True
Don't forget who he was just because he looks old now.
@@youtubeman998 not who he was, but what Germany made him become as an ignorant 18 year old
@@youtubeman998 Don't forget that you're a moron who doesn't realize he was ordered by his government.
Just a reminder:
You're still a moron and will die as a moron. Have a nice day moron.
@@HelloSirHowCanIScamYouToday Guess you were raised by a single mother & have the testosterone levels of a prepubescent female. Just because someone tells you to do something, doesn’t mean you have to do it, especially if it involves killing innocent people. You spineless maggot.
Y’all are coming to this man’s defense, but I’d like to remind everyone that working at the death camp was not mandatory….
The people who worked there chose to, out of their own volition. Even at a desk job, you heard the sounds of people screaming, followed by the smell of their burning bodies in the air… every day… and then partied and drank schnapps all night long with your colleagues.
He knew EXACTLY what he was signing up for. He is not the victim.
I still think Von Braun had more responsibility in the use of slave labor for his rockets but he was not jailed.
Guilty of being on the losing side of the war.
Blood Angel and being part of one of the biggest industrial scale murder machine in history.
@@whatonearth9809 sorry no
@@whatonearth9809 it's not even close to the biggest. Read a book.
@@AeroBigDick i cant think of an other "industrialized genocide" of this amplitude. Can you light my lantern ?
@@whatonearth9809 I'm pretty sure Stalin killed way more with his gulags and Mao and his communist party killed 4~5times more people than the Nazis
this has to be a joke. hes 94 years old. 4 years in prison is a joke sentance just to tease him because they know he wont last 3. giving him life in prison would have been more dignifying. absolutely deplorable.
Nah
@@generalmalaise2930 what are you even saying no about.
Not quite as deplorable as assisting in mass murder
@@internationalrtg5602 They were pretty much forced into it.
Nah
I swear, this feels like something from the Onion
Onions 🌰
Happy somone agreed with this😂
Exactly lol
This is exactly what I thought.
Honestly onion predicted modern news
Guilty for a crime that didn't happen
They forced him to lie.
What’s next, putting a French Barista on trial for collaboration because she served drinks to a SS Officer?
LOL
@Mr.ΠΩβΩDΨ implying that following orders in a military caste is voluntary
@Mr.ΠΩβΩDΨ the guy collected luggage. He was 16 at the time and yes, if he hadn't worked for the army he would've been punished by the Nazis. This trial is incredibly unnecessary
@Mr.ΠΩβΩDΨ So being conscripted into the army (and you know DEATH being the result of you not complying) and following orders (again, DEATH if you dont) is voluntary?
Not just served him a coffee, but a cafe latte to his preference -_^ confirmed Nazi sympathizer
The guy is 94 years old. Sending him to prison is just moving him to another old folks home. Like what’s the difference?
This trial wasn‘t about sending an old, harmless guy to prison. The punishment was not important in this thing. It was the verdict.
It was an important case to show both the victoms and future generations that if you‘re part of a machinery designed to kill people, you will be guilty, even though you‘re not the one who did the killing. You will not be able to escape punishment if you just say „Well, I just did the bookkeeping of the whole stuff“, it does not matter if you‘re working in an organization only designed to kill. That message was important in this trial and in that sense also historic and in my opinion the right signal. It‘s a shame that it took so long, but it was good that it happened.
Bees nest Quite spreading the notion that he was forced to do it. Just cause you saw the “Thomas the Tank Engine Just Following Orders” Video, doesn’t mean the SS were forced into their positions. The SS and prison guard positions were the volunteer jobs that bigoted people were in line for.
Ghosty Just because some guards volunteered for the jobs, doesn’t mean all did. And even if they volunteered, they believed it was for a good cause, they were brainwashed and lied to by their government that what the nazi party aimed to achieve was a noble cause. They were taught that racism was good and supremacy was required. Many of them never even saw the carnage first hand, and many of the ones who did were scarred for life. They were threatened into supporting the party or else they would be imprisoned, tortured, and/or killed, alongside their family members and friends. Now of course this doesn’t make them completely innocent, but it doesn’t make them all monsters either. The only ones who truly were monsters were the ones pulling the strings, Hitler and other government officials, and people like Joseph Mengele who took joy in making others suffer.
Just some Forest Ranger with Internet Access all my comments calling you guys out keep getting deleted... I suppose you Nazi lovers win this one.
@@MankiBoi234 I really hope you catch the blame for someone else's actions one of these days. It's a horrible feeling and you'd be a lot more open minded after it happens to you.
who are we kidding now? i mean seriously, he’s 94, the things that happened happened this wont change anything, this just shows how revengeful and disgusting some humans are, also he was only a guard, it wasnt his idea to do that. pathetic
@Hunter The Based God bruh it isn't his fault at all that millions of jews died. Have you thought about that maybe he just wanted to feed his family and keep them safe, so he became a guard? I bet you also think the same about the nazi soldiers, they didnt have any fault either
Comments like these are the same you'd find on a police defending himself from a blm protester.This comment is the mega equivalent of defending a black man after he got shot 16 times trying to stab a police officer.
It doesn't matter how long ago so if your doing that then go break all the laws on the constitution as that was a long time ago
HE JOINED THE NAZI FORCE. THAT ALONE IS ENOUGH
@@Hello-ww7xr you do realize that he was forced by the Wehrpflicht introduced by Hitler to join them?
A lot of Germans didn't agree with or like the Nazis. They lived in fear of them too. Their hold over Germany was so strong, none of it's citizens had much of a choice in what they did. I'm sure there were a lot of young guys that were forced into the Army for fear of death or imprisonment. Key word "Young". What would you have done at the age of 17+ had the government told you to suit up or be punished? Take that stuff into consideration before condemning people. If he's guilty of evil then he should face justice. If not, let him be.
You’ve got to be kidding me. Hitler’s reign was literally “join or die”. Most people had no choice...
Thank you! 100%
Yes!
He’s a member of the SS, he even admitted to going to the SS recruitment station and applying because he wanted to join the organization as opposed to having to serve with the conscripts
supps I suggest you do some research on ww2 before you make any more outrageous comparisons.
supps lol what?
Does this means that if America ever loses a war on the home front, that when veterans of that war are 80 we can arrest them for being guards at POW camps too?
Yes.
I'm glad he died before he could begin his sentence.
Ikr
Why
@Anth Graves oh please
@Anth Graves hidden because people like you have total reprise. Arguably just as bloodthirsty as nazis were
Anth Graves lol apparently he wasn’t even a guard he was apparently an accountant
"What are you in for"
"Guarding bags"
“sentenced to life” dude legitimately looks older than death
😂
Best comment
It's purely for the humiliation and part of the whole "German Guilt" phenomenon
He should be free and be a living testamwnt of this history so this would bot be repeated
*Thugs selling drugs and killing people:*
"Meh"
*94 Year old man forced to do horrible things roaming free with what little time he has left:*
"Now this, is an avengers level threat."
Most Nazis joined willingly, not all of them were forced to be Nazis. The remaining Nazis should still be held accountable for their atrocities because what they did was a nightmare. Just because this guy is old doesn't mean he doesn't deserve accountability for his atrocious acts, even if he wasn't directly involved with the war, he still was a Nazi, and anyone associated with them should be punished.
@@Rudolf215 And the entire point of this comment is that a 94 year old is no threat to anyone, but they'll still waste their time on him while there are real threats in today's time.
@@TheGamersRace I don't care if he was 100. He should still be held accountable for being a part of the Nazis whether by force or willingly. Simple as that, if you want to defend a Nazi go for it, but my opinion sticks.
@@Rudolf215 BS
"Forced"
Okay Hitler.
I actually feel bad for this man I don’t know too much but a lot of people were forced into doing things there’s a chance he never wanted to do any of it
Another liberal nut case like you, why don't you marry a Nazi and say what's wrong
I don't feel bad at all for murderers
My problem with that is that's what they all say. They all deny accountability. Even the ones tried in the immediate aftermath of the war. But none of them stepped up to do anything about it, then or after the fact
Are you serious? They killed millions of innocent people. There's no excuse for such a crime, and "force" is such a lame excuse!! They brutally killed people with no remorse, be it 1 or 1 million. Taking a life on purpose is such a disgusting thing to do.
@@Ahgajsja He didnt kill anyone though, he lived for 70 years after the war ended as a free man and spoke on how tragic holocaust was when people were denying it
Next up: WW4 leader brought back from the future and trialed for crimes he hadn't committed yet, sentenced to life in prison, later escapes and fights in WW3 instead.
frr
sounds like the plot to terminator LOL
and the peace treaty of ww3 will be the cause of ww4 where he will be promoted for his achievements in ww3
@Derone Cerrone he probably would have gotten executed if he “knew better” I’m not saying what he did was good I’m just saying that he had no other choice.
@Derone Cerrone “he had been forced into his role as a guard at the camp and had not been involved in the killings” it probably felt terrible for him
Jesus Christ are those people totally insane. The guy is 94 years old leave the man alone. First you force him into that organization and then you want to put him in jail for it?? Sick madness.
Never forget and never forgive.
Ya lets not hold people responsable for genocide.
@@axelscrivener9711 he would of been executed if he refused
@@oscarleyden2819 or sent to the Eastern front which in it's own way would be worse. I know I would prefer execution over being involved in mass genocide but I can't speak for everyone.
@Rumi Davinci sounds to me like you'd gladly be among the next lot of fascists herding their victims into the cattle carts. All for a steady pay cheque and a warm meal hey?
Poor man, he had no choice and now they think it’s fun to arrest him. If they were around then they would’ve done the same.
Everyone says this to try and provide some kind of justification. This kind of comment is irrelevant. This isn't about what we would've done in his shoes this is about bringing people who participated in the holocaust to justice at the very least.
@@AnmlPeeweeIsHere finally a voice of reason!
@Quack quack nobody in this modern neoliberal world economy fights for patriotism, at least not the western imperialist countries. They fight for material gain and interest. All the propaganda behind the wars is mere justification for the masses to be behind invading other countries and taking their natural resources and exploiting their labor.
My point was that using the "I was just taking orders" justification is not an excuse. Despite taking orders you're still participating and contributing to a certain extent, big or small, and should be met with scrutiny and repercussions.
@Quack quack how is my reasoning awful?
@@AnmlPeeweeIsHere me, an American bystander reading this comment: hmmm interesting, You are not wrong but it is my duty as an American citizen to disagree with anyone who criticizes the USA 🇺🇸
How many Americans are on trial for their part in the atrocities visited on Japanese Americans???
This is cruel and unusual punishment. Let the man live his last years in peace.
@卐 HitlerLoveϟϟ Anime 卐 yeh I agree but I have no respect for u with that name.
@@SaintJust1214 bruh hes 94 you're kidding right
@@SaintJust1214 soldiers were charged with treason for leaving
@@SaintJust1214 not his fault, he either stood guard, or he died. i doubt he had ever legitimately killed anyone. its still terrible, but not his fault.
@@SaintJust1214 He carried luggage
This guy can get sentenced but Prince Andrew can just ask mummy to buy his way out of prison.
different jurisdictions
Prince Andrew didnt do bad things to Jewish ppl as that just not tolerated n allowed as they would hunt him down to all corners of the world if that was the case,
Not anymore she dead
I don't think he "facilitated mass murder". He guarded bags and things. Didn't even take them. This is only from what the video said though.
@Thack I thought this guy was familiar. I watched the accountant of auschwitz and I feel like it gives a better view of what this is actually about.
Imagine getting confiscated for working for your own country
There is no reason to put this man in jail he bout to be gone anyway most likely
He died before he could even serve his sentence
he may outlive you..
he needs to face a justice. age is just a number
This reminds me of late 90's cartoons where a protagonist will comedically beat up an old lady or trip a guy with a cane and then say, "justice is served" then pose like a body builder.
Yea because this is some random "old guy" and not someone who aided the death of millions.
Kill people himself* He did Not kill himself He lived Long Into the 1980s after the war
@@moderncrypto4371 I mean he had to do it or he would get executed for treason, and it isn’t like he give the murderers the gun, all he did was take the luggage. It was a terrible thing, but he had too or he would die.
@@moderncrypto4371 First off, he sorted luggage. He was forced by the same country that is prosecuting him to do what he did. Resist and he gets shot.
@@moderncrypto4371 wow I moved luggage I was a direct or secondary cause of MILLIONS OF DEATHS. I have no mercy for those but really? this guy is just someone they had to get rid of because he “”was so bad”” guy literally moved luggage for a living
German Government: Guard this prison
Also German Government: How could you?
Germany be like
"Scapegoat time!!"
Yes because Nazi Germany and the nowadays Federal Republik of Germany have the exact same values after 70 years of serperation by the US and the Sowjet Russia who supervised Germany and controlled every move the goverment and the people were doing🙄
@@boatymcboatface4120 I don't see what point u are trying to make? The point is government laws shouldn't work retroactively , why should u be charged for something u did from an Era where it wasn't a crime?
nazi Germany's government** stop putting stereotypes on today's germany.
@@author5867 not the point
He's probably like "I did what 75 years ago?"
He's probably living with the guilt his whole life. Thats worse than any prison knowing you're congruent in genocide.
Stop being a nazi sympathiser
Stop sympathizing with nazis. Its gross.
@TheHabsSuck4Ever Even though men had to fight and serve their part in the third reich i can imagine it would still weigh heavy in the minds of those who took part in the war crimes that Nazi Germany commited.
@@youssefbenali4070 They're still people, and besides he's 94. You dont think he's had time to revise what part he took in the war. This late on just feel unnecessary, he's lived his life already.
@@rdgloveshouse I'm not sympathising, im just asking what difference would sticking a 94 in jail for something done 75+ years ago under conscription in Nazi Germany.
How are you going to charge this man at 94 years old, they couldn’t charge him right after the war was over? Why wait this long
Basically the court of public opinion thought he should be punished
@@nicholasbrassard3512 It's kind of sad that justice can be molded by what the majority believe in. I mean, public opinion can be good, however, there are times when it doesn't need to be applied.
Wintry Snowflake Yep, mob mentality. Like witch burning.
@@peteplayz-norskgaming5723 wait from my understanding you are defending a Nazi. Is this right or am I getting something wrong here ?
@@a.b2966 nah it’s actually left
"I Hans shall make coffee as usual, carry the luggage of prisoners and their wealth."
70 years later...
"You killed 300k people Jail time."
The position of prison guard on Auschwitz was voluntary, he chose to be a guard there
@@gravynavy516 maybe to not be in the frontlines
@@nero7469 the SS also fought, and you're being way too optimistic
@@gravynavy516 yes but I'm saying he could of wanted a guard position to not be in the frontlines
@@nero7469 doubt it tbh
The poor guy was just a simple lower enlisted soldier dragged into the war given orders to just be a guard. Crazy how we still try to put blame on people that had no bigger picture involvement
despite everything I say let this old man go free, I just feel like I'll be cruel to put a 94 year old man behind bars for something that happened so long ago. The man already feels guilt for what he did so just let him enjoy his final years in peace.
Would you feel the same way if your entire family was tortured and killed , and he was involved in some way? He should have given himself up ages ago
@@ChristinaMagma he carried bags :/
@@ChristinaMagma You realize at that time he would've been killed for not obeying orders also this happened when he was 18 are you slow?
@@ChristinaMagma #disliked
Judge: "For more than 300,000 accounts of accessory to murder, we are sentencing you to life in prison".
Him: -Dies on the podium-
I swear I had the same expression as that pfp before recognizing it.
I saw this man on a documentary. Up until then he had kept his history a secret. When asked why he had come forward he said that he was disgusted they so many people denied that it ever happened and he wanted to appear as a witness against these people.
He already lived a full life. What is the point of this.
So are you going to arrest everyone who worked in 1940s Germany
Right!
Lol haha yeah
Uhh no because not everyone in 1940s Germany was part of the SS lol
Incorrect.
Should have just prosecute the high ranking officials