Shit happens and sometimes, it happens to you.

Here’s a question, what are the pros? Is prosecuting a woman for crimes 70 years later meant to deter others? Is it meant to send a message?

Yes, but that doesn’t mean that “we” can’t have a discussion about the merits of said prosecution.

I think it would be equivalent to prosecuting an administrative assistant who managed the emails for a Passat product manager for diesel gate.

I think of it as a practical question. If the chances of her dying while the trial is going on are quite high (and let’s be real, these trials can last a very long time depending on circumstances), it’s a waste of resources. In a perfect world and judicial system she would have had to answer for her crimes long ago,…

As I said to another commenter: I agree with this. But I don’t know how I feel about prosecuting someone with a tenuous connection to the actual murders after all this time. The general theme among the survivors/family members I’ve talked to has been “move forward,” but of course, they are just a handful of people. I…

I’d have to agree with you. Justice must be served, but in the case of some young, unimportant admin, I’m not really sure what justice would get served. She made no decisions, she pulled no levers. She wasn’t a ranking member of the German military, the SS or the Gestapo. I think perhaps an inquiry would be a good…

I don’t have the answer, I’m just speculating, but... if she’s 91, there’s a very good chance she has some measure of dementia. If her brain has deteriorated so that she can’t remember working at Auschwitz, what’s the point? Or maybe she has some kind of heart disease that would cost the state a lot of money to treat…

And certainly, I understand feeling that way. But consider that by defecting from the party, they also took great personal risk, and a 20 year old probably would have been very scared to do that, on several levels. I’m not saying it’s right, not at all - the morally right choice is frequently the most difficult one to…

I find this one very difficult. Having recently read the incredible All The Light We Cannot See – which I recommend highly for insight into something very much like this kind of situation – it’s quite easy to imagine a narrative in which an individual gets swept into an untenable situation by circumstances they cannot…

If only the world prosecuted the people responsible for other war crimes/crimes against humanity with even a minuscule fraction of effort that has been put into punishing Nazis.

This will get deleted, no doubt, like all my posts, but that makes it no less true or important to say.

I see... That explains why I rarely get the call-up to the non-grey Big Leagues. I’m a bit too rough around the edges for my wit to be embraced by most. I shall forever languish in the shadows - under the bridge with the rest of the trolls.

I don’t like the narrative that “that damn Nifong pulled the wool over our eyes!”, as it ignores other relationships that went into the creation of the hoax—between Duke faculty and Duke students, between some in the Durham community and Duke students, between national, mainstream and more independent media, etc.…

Oh great, the oppression Olympics is back.

I can explain it for you: if you are a commenter who criticizes the author, you are probably grey. If you are a commenter who frequently bends over backwards to avoid criticizing the author, you might not be grey.

Isn’t it disconcerting that our system for investagating rapes, especially on college campuses, slants so hard against the accuser? It is now left to the accuser to prove their innocence, not the other way around, and I think that should be a concern for everyone.