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Gerhard Sommer "Unfit For Trial"

Discussion in 'Concentration, Death Camps and Crimes Against Huma' started by GRW, May 28, 2015.

  1. GRW

    GRW Pillboxologist WW2|ORG Editor

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    How convenient.
    "Former SS lieutenant Gerhard Sommer, at the top of a most-wanted list of Nazis, has been declared unfit for trial by prosecutors in Germany.
    They said he had severe dementia.
    Sommer, 93, was one of 10 ex-Nazi officers found guilty in absentia in Italy of one of the country's worst civilian wartime massacres.
    He was convicted for his role in the murders of 560 civilians in the Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in August 1944.
    The Nazis, who were retreating in northern Italy ahead of Allied troops, surrounded the village early on 12 August and in the space of a few hours murdered men, women and 119 children.
    Sommer was serving at the time in an SS Panzer division. He now lives in a nursing home in Hamburg-Volksdorf and tops the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazi criminals.
    German President Joachim Gauck (R) visits survivor Enrico Pieri in 2013
    German President Joachim Gauck (R) visited Sant'Anna di Stazzema in 2013
    Hamburg lawyer Gabriele Heinecke, who has campaigned on behalf of the victims' families to put him on trial, said she was unhappy with the way specialists had reached the conclusion that Sommer was suffering from dementia.
    When asked by Berlin website Tageszeitung if she thought dementia could be faked, Ms Heinecke said: "Of course. In matters of pensions it's something that happens every day.""
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32924225
     
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  2. LRusso216

    LRusso216 Graybeard Staff Member

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    Humbug. Dementia or no, Sommer should be at least held accountable for the massacre.
     
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  3. Dave55

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    Yes. Think what would have happened to him if he arrived as a prisoner to the camp in that condition.
     
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    Despicable.
     
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    Disgusting. They have let them live full lives in peace and now they'll have trials, or in this case not even that. What the f*** it matters anymore, the guy is 93 ffs! To bring this parody at least to some kind of conclusion, why don't they convict him anyway, it doesn't matter if he remembered anything or not. Just nail the bastard.

    Sorry for the rant, but I really feel deep anger. To me it is beyond belief that these guys has walked free all these years.
     
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  6. KJ Jr

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    Can't imagine how the families feel hearing this noise.
     
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