Nazi triggerman dodges jail, ages in peace

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Nazi triggerman dodges jail, ages in peace
Investigator builds case against Heinrich Boere; 1,000 Nazi cases still open

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23525623/

ESCHWEILER, Germany - Heinrich Boere's first victim was a pharmacist. Two more victims would follow on a single day, one gunned down at point-blank range in his doorway, the other on the road.

And although the killing spree happened in 1944, a footnote to the far greater carnage raging across World War II Europe, it still haunts Germany and Holland, leaving a sense of justice denied by dueling court systems despite the continent's long march to unity and harmonized institutions.

Boere was part of a Waffen SS death squad of mostly Dutch volunteers tasked with killing fellow countrymen in reprisal for attacks by the anti-Nazi resistance. His is among more than 1,000 cases worldwide which the Nazi-tracking Simon Wiesenthal Center says are still open as of last April 1.

Though sentenced to death in the Netherlands in 1949 — later commuted to life imprisonment — Boere has managed to escape jail so far. One German court has refused to extradite him because he might have German nationality as well as Dutch. Another won't make him serve his Dutch sentence in a German prison because he was absent from his trial, having fled to Germany.



Heinrich Boere in front of his house in Eschweiler, Germany, in 2003. Boere is one of hundreds of Nazi war criminals still alive but never punished, says the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

[DumpDavisHogg]

1. Looks like McCain's got a running mate! (n/t)

[seemslikeadream]

2. How can anyone live in peace living with this

oh now that I read the story, never mind

[bluestateguy]

3. Mossad? Calling the Mossad? We've got a job for you...

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