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Germany prevents SS extradition

jujuman13 said:
Germany protecting it's 'hero's' again?
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BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Germany prevents SS extradition
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Germany does not hold Hitler, the Nazis, or the SS up to be heroes. The events of the 1930's the Nazi regime and WW2 are acknowledged by all but the very far-right with the same sense of disgust as the rest of us and, more importantly, with a very real sense of shame in the actions of their forefathers. This case is unprosecutable as there appears to be no evidence connecting the suspect to the crime. You need to grasp that modern Germany cannot be held responsible for the actions of the Nazis and that it is more important to understand the causes that led to the Holocaust in attempting to prevent such things in the future. I'm not singling you out jujuman as you are not the only one who seems to think the crimes of Germany's grandparents and the valour of their own predecessor in confronting Nazism entitles you to sit on a high horse in the present. Germany has done more to confront the issues of its past than many nations with histories of genocide and/or ethnic cleansing, Turkey most notably.
 
The article is incomplete and partly misleading.

Germany is only following its own laws, laws put in place by the allies or heavily influenced by them.

The reason they are "refusing" to give him up, is that he is a German citizen. Now the kicker is that as a Dane you can NOT off hand have dual citzenship, and if you do, you have to chose between your danish or other citizenship. And if you dont, your danish passport is "arrested".. no joke, the cops come and "arrest " the passport heh... seen it done and the cops could not stop laughing too. Add to that the insufficent evidence to charge him in Germany, and you have very very little reason to extradite him to Denmark.

Its gone political too, as danish political parties are scrambling to cover their butts. You see the danish goverment has known that this guy was in Germany since the 1970s, and he has even visited Denmark since! But a few years ago some political correct moron wanted to gain some political capital by draging the sitting liberal-conservative goverment through the mud, only to find out later that his own party was just as involved in "ignoring" the case. You see in the 1970s it was the socialists that had power, as it was in the 1990s.. and nothing happened their either, and they knew very well where he was.

The man is probally guilty, but is a small fry in it all. The big criminals of the era have never been put on trial, one of the few dark parts of Danish history.
 
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