Moscow wants to resume the search for Nazi survivors
The acts of Nazi criminals have no statute of limitations; even at ninety years old, they need to be taken to courts in wheelchairs so that their views and actions are not considered the norm anywhere in the world.
This was stated at a press conference by the Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for the Support and Development of Jewish Culture, Traditions, Education and Science, Mikhail Chernov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
During the event, the report “Accomplices of Nazi crimes. 96 veterans of the Latvian SS Legion who are still alive.” The document revealed the personal data of Nazi punishers.
“War criminals can live a long and, possibly, happy life after participating in the extermination of Jews, Belarusians, and Russians,” Chernov said. “It’s not that they weren’t punished, but they kept a relatively clean name and didn’t even suffer public censure. This speaks of their actual legitimation in society: if this happens, then it is possible.”
In his opinion, this report is intended to resume the process of searching for Nazi criminals, which was actively going on after the Second World War. The expert is convinced that the information contained in it should be disseminated; at a minimum, the authorities of the countries where former SS men live should know about it.
“This report should serve as a serious warning to the ideological heirs of these people,” Chernov believes. – Now I’m talking not only about Latvia, not only about the Waffen SS Legion, but in general about the Nazi underdogs and their followers, they must see that even in ninety years the truth about them will be available, their name will not be clean, and they will not will be able to live without fear of a knock on the door, criminal liability, being carried out on stretchers, in wheelchairs - they will still be carried out and some of them will go to trial.”
The expert sees the main point of the report as continuing legitimate, lawful prosecutions on the basis of the existing international legal system of “unfinished grandfathers.” Chernov is convinced that this needs to be done as harshly as possible, “so that there is no sense of security for those who follow them, and very many follow them.”
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