The [Bad] Man Who Got Away

Another one of the bad guys gets away. Once again, one of those Nazis who took part in the killing of millions of people in WWII, has died before getting what he deserved. There is just no way that one can justify that this man, who was identified decades ago as a guard at Auschwitz, was able to "beat the system" and remain free, dying in a hospital bed in Philadelphia.

Evidently, the U.S. dragged its feet all these years, allowing him to live to a ripe old age, that being, cynically, one of the reasons put forth by his defense to stop his deportation to Germany. One has to wonder why it took so long for American justice to deal effectively with this case, when, in many other instances, it acts very swiftly, even to the point of violating due process and other aspects of the rule of law, as in the case of the detainees in Guantánamo.

The lack of political will, as manifested in this particular law-enforcement matter, is very troubling to people all around the world who demand that justice be done in these genocide cases.

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