Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

Take two regimes .... Hitler's 'Nazi Germany' and Pol Pots 'Khmer Rouge Cambodia':

The Nuremberg Trials - Provided  Some Justice

In 1945, (between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946), the main leaders of the Nazi German regime were all tried in court, and where sentenced, executed or imprisoned.

No Appeal, Old Nazi

Ever since I blogged on the hunt for the last of the Nazi's and got an unusually interesting response, I have felt somewhat obliged to follow the fortunes of the men listed.

So I was interest to read in the national free newspaper (the Metro) that one of the men and number 9 on the most wanted list. Karoly (Charles) Zentai (Age 87) had given himself up to the Australian authorities

Zentai is alleged to have participated in manhunts, persecution, and murder of Jews in Budapest in 1944. Hungary has issued an international arrest warrant against him and has asked for his extradition from Australia.

Nazi Hunters - 2007

Who would have thought that over sixty years after the end of the Second World War, there would still be Nazi Hunters?

 

Simon Wiesenthal - Nazi Hunter

I am sorry that these "Old Nazi Hunters" can't let go now ... what are they going to do in ten years time, when even the youngest war criminal would be at least 87 (assuming they committed the crimes aged 16 or 17 in 1945), and more realistically they would be more like 97 yrs old or older?