Why, I feel bad for the old guys he prolly has a wife children and grandchildren and they NOW deside to punish him, maybe if it was a couple years after the war, but not now
It's not like they decided some years later to randomly start prosecuting war criminals.
From the article,
"He admitted the killings to the Dutch authorities when he was in captivity after World War II, but managed to escape from his POW camp and returned to Germany, where he has since lived.
In 1949, a tribunal in Amsterdam sentenced him to death in his absence - later commuted to life in prison.
A Dutch extradition request was turned down by the West German government in the early 1980s, after a court ruled that there was a possibility Boere had German citizenship.
Following a request that Boere serve his sentence in Germany, a German appeals court ruled three years ago that the 1949 trial was unfair because he had not been present.
He was eventually indicted in April 2008, but a court then said he was unfit to stand trial, largely because of heart problems. The decision was eventually overruled on appeal last July. "
So it would seem that it was a mixture of his own escape from prison, bureaucratic issues, a Dutch attempt to prosecute him while West Germany felt it was their own right, and a decision to rerun the trial on Boere's behalf (and then a delay of that trial based on his health) that resulted his delay in (re)sentencing. And, of course, he's appealing the decision.
Can't believe the german courts where fighting his comer
Shame
What?
it's the price of war, war is not what people want. Yes it is horrifying to know what the nazi's did to the people of other religion, race, and other countries. The old go will probably die soon anyways, so why make a huge trial for the old man anyway
The price of war is gunning down civilians of an occupied country (your own country, for God's sake) in the street?
I never thought I'd see someone defending Nazi war crimes on this board.
