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  • July 29, 2010 at 1:21 pm #2308 Reply
    Phidippides
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    I raise this question after reading this story, which is similar to other stories about ex-Nazis who have been hunted down:Nazi Suspect Indicted in Germany for Role in 430,000 MurdersIs hunting down low-level guards, 65 years after the events in question really wise/the best use of time and efforts?  What is the point of “capturing” a 90-year old and putting him on trial?  I do realize that there is the principle that people who commit crimes need to pay the price, and for some/many the guilt or fear in the decades since WWII is not enough.  But I also believe that human justice is hardly the only thing here, and that Divine Justice is the “catchall”, if you will.  Seems to me that placing so much attention on hunting down ex-Nazis “before it's too late” (i.e. they die out) is misplaced.

    July 29, 2010 at 11:34 pm #21865 Reply
    garbanzo
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    I don't think so and would go so far as to say it's a publicity stuntI am sure many families would want justice brought to these people however and I don't think I can blame them.

    July 30, 2010 at 1:05 am #21866 Reply
    donroc
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    And if there is no “divine justice” what then?

    July 30, 2010 at 1:27 am #21867 Reply
    Phidippides
    Keymaster

    And if there is no “divine justice” what then?

    If there is no “divine justice”, then I don't think that bringing them to justice on earth would really matter anyway, except perhaps on an emotional level for people who were related to victims of the holocaust.  But I think that justice is more than the satisfaction of emotions.

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