An Italian judge did the right thing and put the Nazi back under house arrest. Pity the Italian authorities didn’t throw the bastard in jail, where he belongs.
AN Italian magistrate has suspended the work permit of a 93-year-old Nazi war criminal whose first day at work sparked angry protests by Italian Jews, officials said today.
Serving a life sentence under house arrest in Rome, former SS Captain Erich Priebke won permission from a military court to work at his lawyer’s Rome offices. He arrived there yesterday, riding Roman-style on the back of his lawyer’s scooter.
After a day of protests in which demonstrators shouted “Shame!” and “Murderer!”, Judge Isacco Giorgio Giustiniani late yesterday suspended Priebke’s authorisation to work, citing his failure to properly communicate his movements.
Priebke was convicted for the massacre of 335 men and boys at the Ardeatine Caves near Rome during World War Two. He was extradited to Italy in 1995 from Argentina, where he had fled.
I don’t care how old he is. I don’t care what kind of health he’s in. I don’t care how good a prisoner he is. He took part in the murder of over 300 men and boys, and for that, the very least he deserves is to be locked up for what’s left of his life.
One of the things that aggravated me immensely about the constant clamor for the release of Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison was the way the world overlooked the effects of his deeds when he was a free man. And that is the crux of the matter. When Erich Priebke was a young man, he took part in mass murder, and was a willing accomplice to the Holocaust. For that, you should at the very least rot in prison the rest of your natural life.
Don’t ask me for mercy for 93-year-old Nazis. They gave none to women, children, babies, and old men. We are still finding mass graves from the Holocaust. Let the killers reap what they sowed. Or better still, let them ask their victims for forgiveness.
Sucks that they can’t do that. Guess they should have thought of that before murdering them.
10 years ago I visited the Ardeatine Caves. It is near the Catacombs of San Sebastian along the Ancient Appian Way. By the way what 93 year old works?
A reason for capital punishment. Send them to confront their victims.
Joel, le-havdil elef alfei havdalot (many thousands of times removed from the person under discussion above), my grand-uncle and his sister, my grandmother, may they rest in peace. The former retired at 85 and spent the last fourteen years of his life volunteering at a local hospital, repairing toys for children who were in the wards there. He stopped working due to illness three weeks before he died in that same hospital at the age of 99. When my grandmother, a Braille transcriber, died suddenly at the age of 92, she still had work on her table waiting to be done.
I’ll adopt Cynthia Ozick’s comment:
“Let the SS man die unshriven.
Let him go to hell.
Sooner the fly to God than he.”
And by the way, substituting “terrorist” for “SS man,” I’d take the same view with the current generation of Jew-killers.
3 Rahel
God bless them!