THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

WHO ELSE CAN YOU NOT GO AFTER? | 2004-05-15

We all know that Simon Wiesenthal and the United States Government are still spending huge sums of money to go after every twenty-year-old German who was assigned to guard a Nazi concentration camp, even if they are eighty years old now.

What that German kid should have done was walk right up to the SS officers, the guys with the skulls on their hats and the guns at their hips, and tell them he was not going to follow their orders.

Tens of millions of people were killed in Stalin's Gulag in Siberia. Not one commandant or guard in any of THOSE camps has ever had his pension threatened, much less his life. Wiesenthal would never demand such a thing.

Jews were known to go to their deaths like sheep. They never defied the SS the way those German kids were supposed to. But like Catholic bishops versus Army grunts, that's a whole different matter.