An accused Nazi told a packed court in Germany that he was proud of his work for the notorious Nazi SS during World War II in Holland.
Eighty-eight year old Heinrich Boere is standing trial in Aachen, Germany for his participation in an SS death squad that murdered Dutch civilians. Without hesitation during his trial on Friday, the Dutch-German Boere told the court that he was proud of being chosen as a volunteer to fight for the Nazis.
According to the prosecution, he killed a bicycle-shop owner, a pharmacist and another civilian. He faces a possible sentence of life in prison if convicted since Germany does not have capital punishment.
When German soldiers invaded his hometown in the Netherlands in 1940 and seeing Stuka dive-bombers overhead, Beore testified that he and his family were overjoyed as the Nazi Blitzkrieg destroyed their homeland.
"(My mother) said 'they're coming' now things will be better," he told the court, speaking animatedly to a panel of judges.
After the Nazis occupied the Netherlands, he told the court that he was encouraged to join the Waffen SS when he saw a recruiting poster signed by Reichfuehrer Heinrich Himmler. Dutch citizens were offered many perks to join the SS, including German citizenship after two years of service and the possibility of becoming a civilian policeman after that.
According to his testimony, Boere and 100 other Dutchmen attempted to signup at the SS recruitment office but only 15 chosen were chosen. He was part of a squad that was ordered to assassinate dozens of members of the Dutch resistance in an operation code-named Silver Pine.
The trial, which began in October, "[S}ends a very powerful message that the passage of time in no way diminishes the guilt of murderers," Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, said in a press statement, "and that old age should not protect the killers of civilians."
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By no means defending this man, who seems to admit to his part in murder, but must point out that historians differ in assigning the same absolute guilt to the Waffen SS (the military fighting arm of the SS) and its black-uniformed death camp guards and einsatztruppen. That ugly Nazi onion had many layers.
Excuse me, but speaking as a historian of this period, I can say that, as organizations, there was very little difference between the Waffen-SS and the Death's Head units. There was a regular to-and-fro between the two branches, by individuals and whole units (the first Waffen-SS division was created from camp guards, for example). The Waffen-SS regularly commited atrocities, especially in the east. And while leaving room for individual exceptions, members of the Waffen-SS knew they were fighting for Nazi ideology, not just to protect the Fatherland.
John Taurus, rot in hell.
While the likes of America and Israel are constantly seeking immunity from prosecution for their soldiers (nothing to hide nothing to fear right?), we continue to stab 80 year old nazis from our moral high horses. I'm sure there were Israeli soldiers in Palestine who have killed more than a bicycle shop-owner, a pharmacist and another civilian. In fact there are reports of women being shot at close range, homes being needlessly vandalised and even several UN and humanitarian workers being killed.
Is our relentless life in the past just a cover for the atrocities of today?
This whole thing seems fishy. It is well known that resistance members were sentenced to labor camps, not executed. Also, a bike shop owner and a pharmacist were not likely resistance. As others mentioned, why are nazis persecuted sixty-four years after WW2 but people killed in Iraq, Afgh, and Palestine TODAY are ignored?
John Taurus is still posting.....Will one day join his Folk in Valhalla....
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