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2005-06-10 Europe

Life Sentences Sought for Italy Massacre

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Posted by Fred 2005-06-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...IIRC, one good thing that came out of Nuremburg was the decision that membership in the SS made you
de facto a war criminal. That makes stuff like this a whole lot easier to deal with, even sixty years downrange.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-06-10 07:58|| 2005-06-10 07:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Our fathers had the appropriate answer to the SS

To paraphrase the Condottieri Carmagnola's declaration in 1422 to the Swiss outside Arbedo, 'Men who did not give quarter did not deserve to receive it'.

Posted by Jert Flinert7749 2005-06-10 10:56|| 2005-06-10 10:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't let AI see this story JF. Some of those GI's might still be alive to be prosecuted.

Posted by tu3031 2005-06-10 11:03|| 2005-06-10 11:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Camp guards were not Waffen-SS (combatant SS). The Waffen SS perpetrated their share of atrocities and there was constant movements of people between the two entities (later one SS division the TotenKopf was formed with former camp guards) but Wafen-SS and the camp guards were still two separate entities.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-06-10 16:24|| 2005-06-10 16:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry JFM,

I've been to Dachau. In the museum they have posted many of the papers from the camp administration. The personnel records are those of the 'Waffen' SS. The tour is very interesting. Did you know that next to the concentration camp was a Russian POW camp. The guide said the SS soldiers would use the Russians for live target practice. Total killed in the POW camp was larger than the concentration camp.

Posted by Jert Flinert7749 2005-06-10 16:45|| 2005-06-10 16:45|| Front Page Top

#6 how many Arab lawyers are flocking to this crowd?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-06-10 18:26|| 2005-06-10 18:26|| Front Page Top

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