German Nazi suspect dies ahead of trial

Hey B92! Why don't you go deeper yourself?


..At the end of 1943 the camp at Belzec was shut down and Kunz was transferred to Flossenburg, a concentration camp in Bavaria where he was captured by American troops by the end of the war.

After the war Kunz was granted German citizenship and moved to Bonn, where he worked for many years as a carpenter in the Ministry of Construction until his retirement.

Samuel Kunz was repeatedly interrogated back in 1969, 1975 and 1980 as a witness in connection with the events that took place at Belzec extermination camp but he was never considered to be a suspect.

Kunz's alleged Nazi past was revealed by several media outlets in connection with the Demjanjuk trial where he was called as a witness. Hence the Dortmund prosecutor's office started an investigation into the allegations...

WTF? And they're able to slow down the development of Serbia for years blackmailing us all the time because of Ratko Mladic?!! And someone suggest to finally go and join EU or NATO?!

Do you know why the Kunz was not identified before?? (No joke) There were nobody to be found as a witness!

--Samuel Kunz was third on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war crimes suspects and had been due to go on trial early next year.--

Kunz sounds like a real nasty piece of work. i certainly don't mourn him -- i'm just sorry that he escaped justice. "earthly" justice. who knows what happens afterward.

the reasons for the lack of robust prosecution ag. many of the nazi war criminals are complex, and of course tragic. (for us, the anti-nazis). why was germany so lax, for so long? so unwilling to deal honestly with its dark past. west germany, to be sure, but the communist east also turned a blind eye when it served their purposes. at any rate, ddr is history, and good for it.

many other govt's turned blind eyes, when it served their purposes, incl my own country as well. one of the most famous was werner von braun (sp?)who nearly single-handedly jump started our space program. hitler collaborater? user of slave labor? who cares, we gotta beat the russkies. and we did, but at some price.

apparently, there was even some old lady who was recently extradited fr the US, who had a nazi criminal past. she was married to an american jewish man for years, and lived in my neighborhood in frisco. no joke. not sure what has happened to her.

there were always individuals with integrity who never relented in their search for the nazi war criminals -- wiesenthal was the best known, the Klarsfeleds, in france -- and the israeli govt did its share, or tried. eichmann was their major success story. and ours.

now, about mladic: yes, serbia (and rs before it) has harbored him, very much like some countries (argentina comes to mind)harbored the nazi big-fish. why that has continued for so long is also complicated, but it's mainly as a result of the intl comm (so called) closing their eyes, kind of w/a wink and a nod. clearly he could have been picked up by nato troops just after the war, and was not. no one wanted to make too many waves. they still don't want to make waves, except for some of us who are all too happy to make waves in order to get the mass murderer(s) to the hague, where they belong.

and we will not give in -- speaking for myself -- for as long as i live. nothing will distract me, or turn me around, get in my way. there are thousands of others around the world who feel similarly, esp.ly in or from bosnia.

thank you.

roberto
frisco

--Samuel Kunz was third on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war crimes suspects and had been due to go on trial early next year.--

Kunz sounds like a real nasty piece of work. i certainly don't mourn him -- i'm just sorry that he escaped justice. "earthly" justice. who knows what happens afterward.

the reasons for the lack of robust prosecution ag. many of the nazi war criminals are complex, and of course tragic. (for us, the anti-nazis). why was germany so lax, for so long? so unwilling to deal honestly with its dark past. west germany, to be sure, but the communist east also turned a blind eye when it served their purposes. at any rate, ddr is history, and good for it.

many other govt's turned blind eyes, when it served their purposes, incl my own country as well. one of the most famous was werner von braun (sp?)who nearly single-handedly jump started our space program. hitler collaborater? user of slave labor? who cares, we gotta beat the russkies. and we did, but at some price.

apparently, there was even some old lady who was recently extradited fr the US, who had a nazi criminal past. she was married to an american jewish man for years, and lived in my neighborhood in frisco. no joke. not sure what has happened to her.

there were always individuals with integrity who never relented in their search for the nazi war criminals -- wiesenthal was the best known, the Klarsfeleds, in france -- and the israeli govt did its share, or tried. eichmann was their major success story. and ours.

now, about mladic: yes, serbia (and rs before it) has harbored him, very much like some countries (argentina comes to mind)harbored the nazi big-fish. why that has continued for so long is also complicated, but it's mainly as a result of the intl comm (so called) closing their eyes, kind of w/a wink and a nod. clearly he could have been picked up by nato troops just after the war, and was not. no one wanted to make too many waves. they still don't want to make waves, except for some of us who are all too happy to make waves in order to get the mass murderer(s) to the hague, where they belong.

and we will not give in -- speaking for myself -- for as long as i live. nothing will distract me, or turn me around, get in my way. there are thousands of others around the world who feel similarly, esp.ly in or from bosnia.

thank you.

roberto
frisco

Hey B92! Why don't you go deeper yourself?


..At the end of 1943 the camp at Belzec was shut down and Kunz was transferred to Flossenburg, a concentration camp in Bavaria where he was captured by American troops by the end of the war.

After the war Kunz was granted German citizenship and moved to Bonn, where he worked for many years as a carpenter in the Ministry of Construction until his retirement.

Samuel Kunz was repeatedly interrogated back in 1969, 1975 and 1980 as a witness in connection with the events that took place at Belzec extermination camp but he was never considered to be a suspect.

Kunz's alleged Nazi past was revealed by several media outlets in connection with the Demjanjuk trial where he was called as a witness. Hence the Dortmund prosecutor's office started an investigation into the allegations...

WTF? And they're able to slow down the development of Serbia for years blackmailing us all the time because of Ratko Mladic?!! And someone suggest to finally go and join EU or NATO?!

Do you know why the Kunz was not identified before?? (No joke) There were nobody to be found as a witness!