It's Never Over

This is why I'm always hesitant to sum up the war that's still going on:

BERLIN (Nov. 17) — A former SS sergeant who worked unnoticed for decades as a train-station manager was charged with 58 counts of murder Tuesday after a student doing undergraduate research uncovered his alleged involvement in a massacre of Jewish forced laborers.

University of Vienna student Andreas Forster was working on a project about the slaying in a forest near the Austrian village of Deutsch Schuetzen when he stumbled across Adolf Storms' name in witness testimony.

Forster then obtained files from federal archives in Berlin that enabled him to link the former sergeant to the massacre, his professor Walter Manoschek told The Associated Press.

Manoschek visited Storms, 90, at his home in the city of Duisburg several times last year after finding him in the phone book. The professor conducted about 12 hours of interviews in which Storms repeatedly said that he does not remember the killings.

Forster and Manoschek notified authorities and state prosecutors near Storms' hometown in the industrial Ruhrgebiet region of western Germany filed the charges against him Tuesday.

The last war almost anyone living can remember isn't over yet.

A.

Comments

[Lex]

Coincidentally, I'm reading a newly translated journal kept by my sister-in-law's grandfather, a German infantryman who took part in the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. Her brother is seeking an agent and/or publisher. I posted a couple of short excerpts here.

I've been into WWII history for 40 years, and I have yet to become inured to the savagery in these first-person accounts of combat.

This is the kind of stuff that ought to be required reading for anyone pondering getting us into a war (or expanding our involvement in a war most Americans already see as pointless).

[Elspeth Ravenwind]

Okay, if they can still prosecute someone from back then...WHY CAN'T WE INDICT AND PROSECUTE THE EFFING BUSHCO REGIME?!??!?!?!?

To HELL with this "Let's move forward and not look back"...that's bullsh*t - let's prosecute the lying, lethal motherf*ckers WHILE we are progressing...that would be PROOF that we are moving back into a more HUMANE existence.

[Lex]

What Elspeth said.

[pansypoo]

heh, i'll take getting georgee when he thinks he's safe. sadly i hope dickie is in hell 1st.

[Domino]

The German film, The Nasty Girl, dealt with a similar theme. (A German to English website translates "schreckliche" as dreadful, terrible, horrible or awful, so don't think this is a dirty picture.) Anyway, the nasty girl writes a book about her town during the Third Reich. From her research, a prominent man is found to be the town's head Nazi. The older folks have tried to forget that era.