[diseeKeythilt]

Never too late for vengeance on Nazis.

[Zarekylin75]

We can dig up their corpses and **** on them.

[dAy2EWlg]

No, but we'll feel better.

[Ltftujkg]

Seriously, the dude is 94, if even still alive. What are they going to do if they find him? Kill him?

[SoftrermaBioniaSat]

Originally posted by Space05us
Seriously, the dude is 94, if even still alive. What are they going to do if they find him? Kill him? I have visions of an old bastard in an electric wheel chair with a Walther P38 in one hand and the other hand on the electric motor controls for his wheel chair. Still running for the law, still free, still laughing. It's almost like the old guy in Big Trouble in Little China.

[Zdfjpbth]

Ultimately he won. Any guy who spent the entire 3rd Reich as a war criminal and then lasted 63 years while he was being hunted has won.

[Kitdowstyhodo]

I must need new glasses since i thought that said they took in a rich hooker and was trying to figure out what the problem with that was.

[Oxzzlvpg]

Originally posted by Winston
For sure, Chile is well-known for its hospitality toward German criminals. They took in Erich Honecker too. Not just Chile, the whole Southern Cone was a haven for Nazi war criminals. Kluas Barbie was kicking it in Bolivia (where the U.S. stashed him). Mengele was dug up in Brazil, IIRC, and Eichmann was kidnapped from Argentina.

[Nikkytas]

Do we have any from Uruguay?

[lidersontop]

Josef Schwammberger was hiding in Argentina until he was captured in 1987. He wasn't finally convicted until 1992 and didn't die until 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Schwammberger

[bubbachew14]

Originally posted by Monk


Where did you read that part about the task force?

I'd be interested in a situation where they do find this dude and try to get him to Germany while they never have handed over Søren Kam themselves. But really, I'd just call this off and put the money and the energy into something more constructive than hunting down some sorry old men. The guy wasn't a boy scout, or a camp guard.

[Justlovemy]

Your last statement.

It's relevant in that I agree the busy bodies can go too far in tracking down minor players and nobodies so long after the fact.

I don't think this guy was a minor player.

I think that if someone deserves a death sentence or life imprisonment, then the crimes are so great as to warrant hunting him down til he's 150 to deliver justice if necessary. I think this one warrants it.

[jeargefef]

I thought this was going to be someone's birthday thread. Thread fails.

[BariGrootrego]

Originally posted by Oerdin
63 years is a long time so no one can claim the German government hasn't spent enough time trying to track down war criminals. Good thing it's primarily the German's. If it was the USA, can you imagine the outcry over not being able to find him, after letting him go? You don't have to imagine.

[educationonlines]

Just out of curiosity, is this guy know to be alive, or is Chile the last place he's been tracked to? Not many people live to be 94.

[Lidawka]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST

Hm, considering the things he did it is strange that he was first caught, then released without being tried and afterwards was able to live 14 years in freedom without being prosecuted. Not so strange. There were a lot of records to go through, some of the records were incomplete (Nazis started burning records to hide stuff), and the US was holding tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Nazis after the war. A few years after the war ended the orders came down to either charge or release these men and some guys who were guilty got let go simply because not enough manpower had been dedicated to reviewing the hordes of Nazi files. Later on they figured out so and so was a war criminal and it was to late.

[TaxSheemaSter]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Just out of curiosity, is this guy know to be alive, or is Chile the last place he's been tracked to? Not many people live to be 94. They claim he is.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7506679.stm