Nazi murderer Heinrich Boere dies at 92
Source: AP
Heinrich Boere, who murdered Dutch civilians as part of a Nazi Waffen SS hit squad during World War II but avoided justice for six decades, died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence, German justice officials said Monday. He was 92.
Boere died Sunday of natural causes in the facility in Froendenberg where he was being treated for dementia, North Rhine-Westphalia Justice Ministry spokesman Detlef Feige said. He had been the state's oldest prisoner.
Boere was on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals until his arrest in Germany and conviction in 2010 on three counts of murder.
"Late justice often sends a very powerful message regarding the importance of Nazi and Holocaust crimes," the center's top Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, said in a telephone interview from Jerusalem. "It's a comforting thought to know that Boere ended his life in a prison hospital rather than as a free man."
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MADem
(135,425 posts)Is this a "Nazi murderer"--a guy who murdered Nazis, or a "Nazi murderer" -- a Nazi who murdered, I asked myself....?
Upon reading the article, I learn he was a murdering Nazi, leading me to conclude that maybe not ONLY the good die young, but OFTEN the bad die old.
Kick for an interesting footnote to a terrible history. I only wish he'd been bagged sooner.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)That Germany would not extradite him to the Netherlands because he was a German citizen. Citizenship he presumably earned through his service as a "Nazi Murderer" in the SS.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)Eugene
(61,899 posts)Links:
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Unrepentant+Nazi+killer+Dutch+civilians+Heinrich+Boere+dies/9235892/story.html
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/unrepentant-nazi-killer-of-dutch-civilians-heinrich-boere-dies-at-92-1.1569922
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/02/unrepentant-nazi-killer-dutch-civilians-heinrich-boere-dies-at-2/
MADem
(135,425 posts)Good riddance to him....
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)I watched the trial of Adolph Eichmann everyday when Israel had him. I read all the newspapers at what the Hitler people did to the jews and others as well.
He died a peaceful death not like those he murdered.
iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)is a dead Nazi.
- my grandfather (WW2 vet)
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)I'm pretty hardcore when it comes to actual WW2 Nazis--I've read too much to feel otherwise.
Oh, and, goodbye dead Nazi.
iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)even in their present form...
they attempted to use socialism as a way to exterminate and control an entire race of people..
now, they never ruled as socialists.. as hitler hated the name even being in their partys identification...
but they all did agree on one thing, those darn jews made up and/or controlled capitalism to steal their wealth.
but as I say, when hitler took control of the party in the mid 20s he reversed all the socialist ideas that the party had previously been pushing (especially the part of the party that was in northern Germany.. whom joseph goebbels identified with..)
he was the only 'socialist' in hitlers command structure , and he mostly kept quiet as intellectualism was discouraged by the Nazis.
hitler believed that socialism undoubtedly would result in Marxism and communism. two things he hated dearly.
goebbels (notice I don't capitalize their names, they don't deserve it) once said of hitler when he took power of the party "I feel devastated... What sort of Hitler? A reactionary?" and cringed at hitlers notion that socialism was only a jewish system. when hitler announced he was in favor of private ownership of wealth and property he said "I no longer fully believe in Hitler. That's the terrible thing: my inner support has been taken away."
Now, regardless...goebbels was a TERRIBLE person who deserved death for the murders he helped co-ordinate.. but he was in fact a socialist.. unlike the others in charge of the Nazi government (and most certainly hitler who was fine with the monetary notion of capitalism, just not his perceived view that jewish folks controlled it for their benefit).
sorry if that was long, but ive done a lot of research about world war 2 and the Nazis... you kinda have to these days to prove to right wingers that the Nazis were not a socialist government , regardless of the word being in their name.
I hate all Nazi. past, present, and future. they are the scum of human life, along with any other person or group of people who feel they have the right to murder another human being because of their race or religion.
I spend a lot of time trolling pro-Nazi videos on youtube.. its pretty fun, actually.
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)underpants
(182,826 posts)He is dead.
Good.
GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)...unfortunately, many of them, it seems.
Some of em are still kickin, but their days are numbered, no matter how many war crimes tribunals they never face.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)to hell!
alp227
(32,027 posts)daleo
(21,317 posts)George bush, who murdered Iraqi civilians as part of a U.S. hit squad during the U.S invasion of Iraq, died comfortably in his sleep today.