Former Auschwitz guard, 93, charged with accessory to 300,000 murders in Germany

[Leadified]

ikki5 said:

Leadified said:

I don't think that's really fair. The Internment was a clear violation of human rights but not even close to the same level as what the Nazis did or hell what the Japanese did in Asia, but the offenders did escape justice for being on the winning team.

So you are going to judge what people is as more wrong based on the number of people? So let me ask you this? How many people does it take before it becomes wrong? 10?, 20?, 100? 1,000? Seriously, How many does it take? The concenquenses should be the same no matter if it is 1 person or a million or by the level of it being committed. War crimes and atrocities are still war crimes and atrocities.

Yes, crimes are still crimes no matter how intense the crime was, I'm not saying what happened to Japanese Canadians and Americans was not wrong. But you can't equate almost exterminating multiple nations and peoples to the Internment, crimes are crimes but they do have to have to have weight on them. Also you can not judge all wrongs the same, as in you can't give the same punishment to someone who murdered 1 person to someone who murdered 100 people, that would be ridiculous. On top of that it's not so black and white, what if the criminal also forced those people into slave labour or they were horribly tortured, and experiments were conducted upon them, it further complicates justice. Which is why you can't directly compare one to the other. Both are crimes, however one was definitely much more severe than the other and justice has to scale for that.