The Allied bombing of Nuremberg during World War II

Last night I watched the old movie, entitled Judgement at Nuremberg, which is about the Nuremberg war-crimes trials.

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/JudgmentAtNuremberg.html

The movie starts with black and white movie scenes, which show mile after mile of destruction done by Allied bombing of the city. Nuremberg was bombed because it was Hitler’s favorite city and because it was the site of Nazi rallies before the war.

I have a whole section on my website, entitled

Allied bomb destruction of Nürnberg

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Nurnberg/Nurnberg01.html

German boy looks at bomb damage in city of Nuremberg

The city of Nuremberg has been restored and the Germans have learned their lesson, which is “Don’t harm one hair on the head of a Jew, or your country will be destroyed again.”  There are now one million Jews back in Germany, and they are keeping an eye on the Germans, to keep them in line.

 

 

 

German prosecutors are running out of war criminals to be put on trial

For years, Germany has been trying to make amends for killing 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, but to no avail.  The Jews have been receiving reparations from the German people for over 70 years, but it is never enough.

The motto of the Jews is “Never forgive, never forget.”

Defendant Reinhold Hanning, a 94-year-old former guard at Auschwitz death camp, is pushed in a wheelchair after a break in his trial in Detmold, Germany, in this file picture taken February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Bernd Thissen/Pool/Files

The following quote is from a recent news article :

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German prosecutors have also recently charged two other Auschwitz death camp employees, a medic and a radio operator. But the suspects’ high age and frail health, more than 70 years after the end of World War Two, prevented the cases from going forward.

[Jens] Rommel said that more than 95 percent of a potential pool of suspects were either dead or too frail to be put on trial.

“It’s frustrating sometimes to see a suspect die just a few days before the start of a trial after much work has been invested into the case,” said Rommel.

Rommel said he is also concerned that a pending verdict by Germany’s Federal Court of Justice might stop Nazi crime investigations altogether. The court is expected to rule on the appeal of [Oscar] Groening, who has rejected the broader definition.

“If the [federal] court reverses the verdict and decides that the proof is not sufficient it would become extremely difficult to go forward with any other cases,” Rommel said.

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My suggestion is that the wives of the dead German war criminals could be put on trial. Women usually live longer than men, so there should be plenty of widows to put on trial. In any case, the show must go on. “Never forgive, never forget” — that is the motto of the Jews.