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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMeanwhile back in Old Europe: Protesters stopped Nazi war criminal's funeral in Italy. Video/story
My Mom who lives in Germany told me about this. She says the body is unclaimed at this point. No country wants it.Protesters gather to show their anger at Erich Priebke's funeral procession
The funeral service for Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke in Italy has been halted amid angry protests.
More than 500 people in the city of Albano Laziale shouted "murderer" and "executioner", and clashed with Nazi sympathisers, as his coffin passed.
The former German SS officer, who was jailed for life in 1998 over the killing of more than 300 civilians, died under house arrest last week.
His death led to fierce debate over what to do with his body.
That question remains after the funeral was suspended on Tuesday evening.
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Priebke was one of the SS officers present during the killing of men and boys at Rome's Ardeatine Caves in 1944, in a reprisal attack ordered by Adolf Hitler for the killing of 33 German soldiers in Rome by resistance fighters.
He died aged 100 and had never apologised for his actions.
The Vatican had issued an unprecedented ban on holding the funeral in any Catholic church in Rome.
Argentina, where Priebke lived for nearly 50 years before being extradited to Italy, has refused to take the body.
But the Society of St Pius X - a Catholic splinter group which has in the past faced criticism over anti-Semitic leanings among its members - offered to hold the ceremony.
'Take him to the landfill'
Angry demonstrators who had gathered in Albano Laziale jeered at and hit the hearse carrying Priebke's coffin as it made its way to the funeral.
Story and videos here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24544380
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Why didn't they stop the Nazis in 1933?
I had 4 German-speaking uncles in the American military fighting their firat cousins who had failed to immigrate.
Mira
(22,380 posts)In 12 years, under the cover of much darkness and terror more evil was committed then...
My Dad at age 28, in 1938, (he was a minister, had a smidgen of clout from being just simply shot) exited the Nazi party saying in a letter to them that he thinks they will pursue the harming of the Jewish people and he cannot be part of that.
From then on he was hounded, and had to hide.
Why didn't they stop the Nazis in 1933? It was a matter of life or even more death...plus you had to recognize what was happening, or project what was likely to happen. Not exactly a cake walk in 1933 Germany.
And your saying "failed to immigrate" is loaded as well. Did they recognize the threat and try? Or were they unable to because they were not allowed to by the US? It wasn't that simple.
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Coming to the America of today:
Why don't we stop the people undermining our Democracy?
Who under the guise of wanting less government spending just wasted 24 billion of money in the last 2 and a half weeks that could have fed the children.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)an unholy alliance between our corporations & our government, a propaganda-mill mass media that deliberately misinforms the public and turns them against each other, a culture in which science and rationality are despised and denigrated, an exaltation of violence as a universal solution, and a technologically advanced surveillance state backed by militarized police forces that puts to shame anything that might have existed behind the Iron Curtain when it comes to ability to monitor and control the citizenry.
Mira
(22,380 posts)then as now - people actually do have the governments they tolerate (or deserve) until they collapse under their own weight. Some of which has started in the US as heads emerge from the sand slowly but surely.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)need to keep poking the sleepwalkers.