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Thread ID: 14344 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2004-06-28
2004-06-28 01:01 | User Profile
*PaleoconAvatar comment: The obsessive Nazihunters have really begun scraping the bottom of the barrel--now they're down to pursuing people who "ordered the deaths" of 59 prisoners. A slim number, that's. Pretty soon we'll be hearing about how they've convicted "The Evil-Eyer of Bucharest" who is guilty of "looking the wrong way at 4 Jews on a streetcorner." What a war criminal! :lol: *
[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3841283.stm]'Butcher of Genoa' ruling quashed[/url]
Friedrich Engel, 95, is too old to face a re-trial
A German court has thrown out the conviction of a former Nazi SS officer who was found guilty of ordering the deaths of 59 Italian prisoners in 1944.
Friedrich Engel, known as "the butcher of Genoa", was sentenced to seven years in jail for his role in the executions.
The federal court said he was legally responsible for the massacre, but questioned whether there was enough evidence to secure a murder conviction.
Due to his advanced age, Mr Engel, 95, will not face a re-trial.
Appeal
Mr Engel had appealed against the decision by a lower court in Hamburg in 2002.
The court ruled he had ordered the execution of the Italian naval commandos on a mountain pass outside Genoa, in northern Italy, in revenge for an attack on a cinema full of German soldiers.
Mr Engel, who was the head of the SS in the city at the time, maintained that he had observed the event - and did not supervise the executions.
He had already been convicted in absentia by an Italian court in 1999, which sentenced him to life imprisonment for war crimes and his part in 246 deaths.
2004-07-02 00:53 | User Profile
I'm just real curious about this. Why is it open season on Nazis yet nobody's made an effort to find Jap commanders who commited heinous atrocities against civilians and POWs? How many of them were brought to trial and executed after WWII? As I said, I'm just curious because one never sees any headlines announcing a Jap capture. And I don't recall any Jap officier winding up in prison for 60 years like Hess.