Demjanjuk Convicted for Role in Nazi Death Camp

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Originally Posted by Seth8530

You guys are all sick. He was a guard for crying out loud. If he was abritrarly shooting prisoners it would be a diferent story. Prove to me that he killed prisoners and im all for giving him jail time if he in fact has not already served that time under a different countries hands..

Prison guards are members of a military and therefore should be treated as any soldier folowing orders would be. .

What would be the consequences if he had not followed orders and went awol instead?

Oh jesus ----ing christ. He just followed orders - I see that you are an adolescent and an American, not a real excuse, but if you grew up in Germany and actually talked with people who lived during the 3d Reich you would be sick of these "I only did my duty" excuses. And: It was not always an excuse, sometimes also the bitter truth - many shades of grey involved.
However, what MH already wrote: people had options. A man of honour would prefer to be in a penalty unit and die by a bullet at the Eastern Front over helping to exterminate civilians.
And if you would have read the article or this thread you would know that this whole ---- is not about a trial about direct murder but the very support to commit this extermination.

But I am not here to help you with your failed education, when you do not know the difference between a prison and an extermination camp (Vernichtungslager), your local library can be your friend.
A good start to read would be Eugen Kogan's "Der SS-Staat", which goes in english by the dumb title of: "The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them"