A very evil man died recently - Heinz Barth (Nazi)

[bleedingheart]

I was reading the paper this weekend and came across this man's obituary.

Now for those of you who have seen ole crazy Mel Gibson's movie The Patriot, you will remember a scene where the British soldiers locked the inhabitants of a village in a church and burned it to the ground....

Well that never happened in the Revolutionary War according to many experts, HOWEVER it was based on something Mr. Barth did in France.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/08/15/heinz_barth_86_convicted_in_nazi_massacre_of_village/

"On June 10, 1944, as they headed toward Normandy to combat D-day invasion forces that had landed four days earlier, German troops of the armored SS Division Das Reich slaughtered 642 men, women, and children in the village.

The Germans rounded up the men, forced them into barns and slaughtered them with machine guns. The 241 women and 209 children were herded into the church, which was set afire with grenades and then riddled with machine gun fire.

"There are some events that can never be forgiven or forgotten," Alain Marleix, the top French official for veterans affairs, said in a statement. "The death of this sinister person, more than a half-century after the victims of his own crimes, draws no tear or regret from me."


What really upset me was what this crazy evil fucker was quoted as saying...

"I feel guilty about the terrible crimes in Oradour," Mr. Barth was quoted as telling the Berlin tabloid B.Z. at the time of his release. "But I have paid long enough."

BULLSHIT...men like Mr. Barth didn't pay enough for what he did, the very idea that this bastard lived to be so old is just infuriating he should have rotted in his prison cell...the mercy shown to him was not deserved...

[TomInTib]

1. I used to know an old Nazi

Guy named Bernhard VanDerheiden, lived in Upper Merion, PA. I was friends with his son.

Gloomy old bastard, had all kinds of memorabilia. And he was especially proud of this table lamp with a skin lampshade.

The US had moved him through Argentina under the alias of Bernardo Sanchez.

[ljm2002]

2. That's amazing...

...I knew a lot of Nazis went to Argentina; I didn't know the US imported them from there. (I did know we imported some high level scientists and engineers though)

But the lampshade thing reminded me of a documentary I saw on PBS. It was about the liberation of Auschwitz by Allied forces. There were many segments, but the one that made the biggest impression on me was when the Allies brought the "good Germans" from the surrounding areas to show them what really went on there. When the line of people went past a table that had lamps with shades made out of human skin, one of the women in the line just fainted. I remember thinking at the time, yes, probably it was hard to reconcile the reality with all of the denials and rationalizations that you have indulged in for the last few years.

It reminded me then, and even more so now, why we never want to embrace the moniker "good Americans".

[coffeenap]

3. I just visited Dachau this week for the first time. There are plenty

of old homes not so very far away, and lots of new ones right up against the fence. Incredible. Still.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. google ''operation paperclip''

[Octafish]

5. Reagan didn't mind.

Pruneface was a NAZI, too.

[UTUSN]

6. I'll always kick for the death of an effing-Nazi. & NO I don't feel guilty!!1 n/t