Nazi next door

Heard a brief report about this on the local news. Your question is a good one, Lou. It may be just as amazing to know how many successfully escaped justice, assuming that number can even be known.

 

Kind of makes you think twice about your elderly neighbors who speak with a foreign accent doesn't it? The ones that really bother me though are the ones that the government knowingly let in because they might be of some use against the new enemy, the Soviet Union. Those weren't a matter of bureaucratic incompetence, they were known felons who were sanctioned by our own leaders.

 

As long as he doesn't start his sentences with "we have the way" , I won't suspect my neighbour

 

Better late than never.....

But in a humerous tone..if there can be any....I'm looking at my neighbour with different eyes now....His daily morning greeting of...

Vos Papier Bitte...or something like that...really doesn't mean morning...nice weather...then?

 

It's tempting to feel sorry for this 94 year old guy. However, he did make the decision to lie to the authorities in claiming to have had no military service in an attempt to avoid judgment. Now he has to deal with the consequences of that decision. Unfortunately, now his family also has to deal with it.

 

Here is a link to an article about a consentration camp guard who married a Holocaust Survivor. While this former guard is a woman, I do remember stories of male guards who also married survivors.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Her-secret-past-as-a-Nazi-guard-S-F-immigrant-2488370.php

and here is a book about a Jewish woman who went "underground", and married a Nazi, who protected her dispite knowing she was Jewish.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Nazi-Officers-Wife-Holocaust/dp/068817776X

 

I believe the family had denied that he was a Nazi and is threatening to sue the AP. Was it possible for the commander of an SS unit to not be a Nazi? I guess I've always presumed that was part of the deal: Show your well used copy of Mein Kampf, swear loyalty to A. H., learn the secret handshake, join the party, get assigned to lead an SS unit. Okay, maybe I exaggerated a bit. I'm sure it didn't have to be WELL used.