“125,000 Germans ” is stated as the number killed at Dresden above, yet other sources say it is closer to 30,000.
The truth is that Germany did conduct trials, but gave many of its offenders such light sentences , such as the one cited above, as to make it seem ridiculous.
One writer alleges that Eisenhower ordered prisoners from Germany to be left in ‘camps’ to die. He cites only one book, which was never accepted as accurate. I find it hard to believe, because most of the Germans who surrendered to the Allies chose to surrender to America, knowing full well the US reputation for leniency. Is there more evidence than one book by a Canadian author to support that claim? And how many are alleged to have died? Why has not Germany ever mentioned the matter? Where are the widows and mothers?
It’s important to have a museum or memorial for the Holocaust because the world looked away at the time. The camps were not bombed, the Vatican was almost silent. The other victims, Polish POWS, Soviet POWS, should also be remembered.
As for Demjanjuk, I think they should get to the facts of what happened. They should retest the I D card that both Israel and the US accepted as legit. Then he’ll probably go to an old age home.
If he’s innocent, then it’s a travesty of justice, and he will have to somehow ‘prove his innocence’. But if he was guilty of being a Sobibor guard, then he will have had a just retribution.
