Ex-Auschwitz guard convicted, sentenced to five years in prison

[inanna]

Source: Reuters

Published Friday, Jun. 17, 2016 8:36AM EDT

A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard was convicted on Friday of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people, according to the judge presiding over what could be one of Germany’s last Holocaust trials.

Reinhold Hanning was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in facilitating the slaughter at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/ex-auschwitz-guard-convicted-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison/article30499072/

[COLGATE4]

1. Well, at least the bastard will die in prison.

Some small (very small) amount of justice.

[brooklynite]

2. Five years divided by 170,000 is.....

[christx30]

3. At 94 years old, 5 years is probably

a life sentence.

[cali]

8. good. It damn well should be.

[MosheFeingold]

4. He can have all the mercy he showed.

Fuck him. Die in pain.

[olddad56]

5. so, there is hope that GWB, Shooter Cheney, Rumsfeld etc...

will be brought to justice and get what they deserve 50 or so years from now for the genocide that they created in Iraq and the rest of the middle east. we can only dream.

[cstanleytech]

6. Well there is always hope................just not much of it. nt

[farleftlib]

7. Sad, ain't it?

Just like WJC turned a blind eye to Poppy Bush and Obama turned a blind eye to Jr. and his crew,
the hope is very small indeed.

I don't know if it's even their right/duty to do something like that but I'd hope they'd use the bully
pulpit to start an investigation at least.

[bobthedrummer]

9. +1 K&R

Cheney Watch
http://www.cheneywatch.org

[Behind the Aegis]

10. Good.

This criminal deserves more time, and his victims deserve to be respected.

[uppityperson]

11. Good. slow is better than never.