XPost: can.politics, alt.politics.socialist.nazi
From: campbell@neotext.ca
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 22:17:47 -0600, David Johnston wrote:
> On 4/21/2017 8:27 PM, Greg Carr wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:48:46 -0600, David Johnston
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/20/2017 10:05 PM, Greg Carr wrote:
>>>> Kept secret for nearly 70 years, a trove of United Nations war crimes
>>>> files made public this week contains early evidence of Nazi death
>>>> camps that was smuggled out of Eastern Europe into Allied hands.
>>>>
>>>> “It was unknown that the Allies prepared prosecutions of Adolf Hitler
>>>> and the rest of the Nazis for the death camps in Europe while the
>>>> Nazis were still in power and while they were still running occupied
>>>> Europe,” says British historian Dan Plesch, whose new book Human
>>>> Rights After Hitler delves into the files of the United Nations War
>>>> Crimes Commission (UNWCC).
>>>>
>>>> “There are many such dossiers of legally prepared indictments of
>>>> Hitler and other Nazis for many of their crimes, including the
>>>> extermination of the Jews, and these were drawn up long before
>>>> D-Day.”
>>>>
>>>> Plesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and
>>>> Diplomacy at the University of London, said in an interview that as
>>>> early as 1942, Allied leaders publicly condemned a Nazi project to
>>>> exterminate Jews that they knew was underway.
>>>>
>>>> The full extent of the Holocaust, which killed six million Jews, was
>>>> revealed when concentration camps were liberated in the final stages
>>>> of the Second World War, but the Polish government in exile had
>>>> earlier provided detailed descriptions of atrocities in such camps as
>>>> Auschwitz and Treblinka.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Related German prosecutor turning around his country’s poor record at
>>>> convicting SS soldiers This 95-year-old Holocaust survivor has a
>>>> roommate — a 31-year-old granddaughter of Nazis Archaeologists
>>>> unearth human bones near site where Nazi scientists experimented on
>>>> Holocaust victims Plesch said that the early evidence suggests that
>>>> in 1942 and 1943,
>>>> more could have been done to rescue Jews from the Nazis by using
>>>> escape routes through France and the Balkans — parts of Europe that
>>>> were not yet under Nazi control.
>>>>
>>>> “You can’t say that people didn’t know,” Plesch said. “They did
know
>>>> and still didn’t act.” And once the war was over, he added, “there
>>>> was a great deal more evidence and a great deal more that could have
>>>> been done to prosecute than was done.”
>>>>
>>>> Allied states including Canada, the United Kingdom and the United
>>>> States created the UNWCC in 1943 and co-operated on the investigation
>>>> of more than 36,000 international criminal cases between 1943 and
>>>> 1948. Plesch writes in Human Rights After Hitler that an American
>>>> shift in emphasis from punishing Nazis to combating communism led to
>>>> the closing of the UNWCC.
>>>>
>>>> “The commission’s files contained indictments against thousands of
>>>> Nazis who were then allowed to go free,” he writes. While people
>>>> remember the trials of top Nazi officials at Nuremberg, the UNWCC’s
>>>> pursuit of underlings has been largely forgotten.
>>>>
>>>> At the urging of U.S. intelligence officials, the UNWCC files were
>>>> classified and public access was prohibited. More recently,
>>>> researchers were granted access on the condition that they not take
>>>> notes. Plesch led an effort to persuade diplomats to release the
>>>> secret material.
>>>>
>>>> You can’t say that people didn’t know. They did know and still
didn’t
>>>> act He said he stumbled upon the vast archive when he found reference
>>>> to a UNWCC form outlining charges brought by Canada against SS
>>>> commander Kurt Meyer. Meyer was convicted of ordering the 1944
>>>> murders of 20 Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy, France.
>>>>
>>>> Plesch said the evidence of war crimes contained in the files
>>>> “provides a whole hardware store of nails to hammer in the coffin of
>>>> Holocaust denial. This is a huge trove of prosecutions of the
>>>> Holocaust from during World War II, legally authorized
>>>> documentation.”
>>>>
>>>> He said the archive also offers a lesson today as atrocities continue
>>>> to be committed in Syria and elsewhere.
>>>>
>>>> “They had a very effective, low-cost system for prosecuting low-level
>>>> perps, and we badly need something like that today,” he said.
>>>>
>>>> “If they could be taking evidence from people escaping from under the
>>>> jackboot of the SS, why aren’t we doing the same when it comes to
>>>> people escaping from Syria?”
>>>>
>>>> ((Why dont they care about the pedophiles and rapists and organized
>>>> crime criminals in Canada.
>>>
>>> I was unaware that Canada had stopped prosecuting cases of rape and
>>> child pornography.
>>
>> A senior citizen in Surrey was beaten and raped a few years ago and her
>> perpetrator recieved 13 years today. If we had a justice system it
>> would be death.
>
> That is not what the expression "justice system" means.
It means we're gonna park him long enough that he won't
be a danger to the rest of us when he gets out.
Dhu
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