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Yes. If they were living really good lives in the first place, they would have had enough guts to face the consequences and come out of their rat holes. Taking the life of an innocent human being for reasons of race is blatant murder. One doesn't kill 14 year olds like Anne Frank and participates in the obliteration of a "whole race" and gets away with it. Even it that was "a long time ago".

After all, those millions who were murdered by Hitler were NOT combatants nor criminals. They were human beings.

Yes again, because a whole generation was almost slaughtered. There is no excuse.How do we learn from history if we "let go" of the lessons and allow the criminals and killers to have their peace all because "they are old" and they have led good peaceful lives? How do we say NO blatantly to the new Neo-nazi's who have recently threatened the extinction of the Jews again IF we do not do justice to those who participated in the "first slaughter" or those who were instrumental in the "doing" of Hitler's "final solution"?

How do we let the Holocaust go? Do we simply forgive and forget? This is a bad historical precedent considering that there are crazies who even dare deny that the Holocaust really happened.How do we give justice to those whose mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers were murdered and tortured during this dark phase of human history? How do we say "yes" to murder on the grounds that anyway, the murderer lived a good life AFTER the murder. The deed is done.

If we were to let the NAZI murderers go we may as well change the whole legal system of the world and pardon EVERY murderer who have lived a "good and peaceful life" but such an idea is because it is against one's sense of justice and decency. Also, I think more than ever, because of current events, NOW is the best time more than ever for the world to say that we will NOT let the holocaust happen again.

The world simply watched when it happened. Are we going to do that again? What would that say of humankind then? I say we should NOT forget and we should continue to persecute all murderers, even those "good" Nazi's.

It takes only one person to do nothing for evil to succeed. That was why Hitler almost succeeded. Haven't we learned yet? Or will be again stand like zombies as we discern that there are people who have the same intention Hitler had years ago?

Yes, we should hunt down every Nazi and show the world that we mean business. That ethnic cleansing is NOT what is part of civilized society and that those millions of Anne Franks did not die in vain because we are the guardians of their future.Most of all, persecuting the :old" Nazi's will give the world the message that those who follow psychotic leaders will likewise have to pay for following crazy murderous and sick orders.

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