Thursday, April 8, 2021

Nazi War Criminals

Helmut Oberlander in an undated handout photo.

Perhaps, then, if we reworded the troubling question

as example: How could they not know and be aware

that their actions aided in the deliberately untimely

death of thousands of children, women and men?

Ah, that argument that they were young, conscripted

to perform a national duty and had no other option

but to follow prescribed orders such that their very

youth alone must forgive their trespass on that most

basic of human rights ... existence. Needless to say

their age-peers who fought on a deliberate principle

of upholding freedom and the sacredness of human

life chose that course in loyalty to their conscience

needing no orders or prompting to fight the evil these

now-elderly moral criminals represented. They who

gave little thought to enabling the mass murder of

Jews who were, after all, Jews. Who would not go on

to litter the world with their offspring to exploit world

order to their gratification. Elderly, feeble, ill or not

justice has not been well served in their preservation.

 

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