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Post by TW on Mar 19, 2009 12:40:34 GMT -5
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Post by TMWight on Mar 19, 2009 13:22:11 GMT -5
While I don't condone what the Nazis did during the war, this guy was taking orders. He did what he was told to do like a good soilder should, regardless if he feels it's right or not.
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Post by brewerbruce on Mar 19, 2009 14:02:43 GMT -5
It is what it is.....regardless if he was made to join the army, he still was a cold blooded murderer. He can hide behind that excuse that he was ordered to do so, but the facts are there. He killed and needs to be tried for it.
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Post by atthemurph on Mar 23, 2009 13:34:32 GMT -5
Hell, I think we had 4 or 5 of these guys in my neighborhood where I grew up.
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Post by TW on Mar 23, 2009 16:14:46 GMT -5
An old friend of mine swore up and down this one guy who lived near us was a Nazi who'd come to the US under forged identification, following WWII, and established himself, and started a family outside our area, before moving there, buying a farm.
As I looked back on it, years later, I began to see what he was talking about. It was all there, and the man was quite reclusive, despite the fact that his wife was active in their church, and the children were well mannered, and liked fairly well.
The man was respected in the community, but strangely enough, nobody really got to know him. They knew the wife, and the two sons. Him, only slightly.
It was strange though, when the son graduated from high school with us, and someone wanted to get pictures of all the parents with their kids, and he "conveniently" hid behind his son, so his face didn't show.
Also, when he had won an award for farming, and they wanted to put his picture in the paper to go with the story, he told them he didn't want the award. Give it to someone else.
There were several other incidents, in fact many of them, where he made it a point to avoid being around when there were "strangers" about.
Over the years, I thought about what my old friend had said, and the one thing that always stuck in my mind is that the last thing we talked about before he was killed in a car wreck was when he was telling me he was positive that the guy was a Nazi who had escaped prosecution.
I asked; "How do you know?"
"I know. I'm positive." He said. "But why destroy the rest of his family. They didn't do anything."
I let it go at that. My friend died a short time later, and the man, who we talked about, died less than a year later.
If he was a Nazi, he's paying his dues now, if you believe in God's punishment. In any case, he's no longer alive, so that chapter has closed.
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Post by packerconvert on Mar 23, 2009 19:02:49 GMT -5
I swear a lot of my former teachers were Nazi's including one nun.
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Post by mag7ue on Mar 23, 2009 21:33:28 GMT -5
I swear a lot of my former teachers were Nazi's including one nun.  Nice, PC. |
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