that these men should not be convicted of a crime they had committed while they were convinced that what they were doing was right, it was a common belief that it was just like a war on the front lines, they were getting rid of the enemy from there "houses" in their "land", it was common to understand it as a soldier killing a soldier but going further and looking at other cases in which there are minorities who have suffered a genocide like the Jews, there is no there has been no prosecution of the people who were acting under orders to kill the natives, the killing and imposition of African slaves, no slave-holding nation has responded to the African descendants of the slaves who were used to build the powerful nations that we see today. What happened to the Jews was a terrible act, but these old people who took part in the acts against the Jews lived their lives facing everything they did in their 20s and 30s, at the time the German population had a large number of young people who could be easily influenced and gain confidence on a common idea. The Jews are enemies of the Germans, they now repent and have to face every single day what they have done. For an 80+ year old man to go to prison for something he did during his impressionable years is... illegal, if legal, now it has good roots because you can't point the finger at brainwashed individuals and forced to do what they did by high authorities. The white men involved in slavery are not persecuted or charged, slavery ended years ago, and the descendants of these slaves do not point fingers or sign lawsuits. I believe in letting history be history and the present be present until the past repeats itself. Jews are no longer killed, Adolf Hitler who influenced the holocaust is dead, the young people involved did what they had to do to save their only life because if they had resisted they would have been seen as part of