Auschwitz guard Ernst Tremmel dies a week before trial

HANAU: -- A 93-year-old former guard at Auschwitz has died a week before he was due to stand trial in Germany.

Ernst Tremmel was accused of 1,075 counts of accessory to murder for his time working at the death camp in German-occupied Poland.

Tremmel worked at the camp from November 1942 to June 1943.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35987351


-- BBC 2016-04-08

Best trial ever. Just cost a couple of 10k Euro to set up. Told everyone it's no use trying to go through with those trials already. Mind the 'juvenile court'.

Problem solved for all concerned. Except lawyers miss out on some money, no one cares.

Problem solved for all concerned. Except lawyers miss out on some money, no one cares.

I think that the families of those whose deaths he may have been responsible forwouldn't agree with your gratuitously cynical and insensitive view. They may have wanted to see him punished in his last days, rightly so.

ronrat, on 08 Apr 2016 - 16:44, said:

Problem solved for all concerned. Except lawyers miss out on some money, no one cares.

+1...

Auschwitz guard Ernst Tremmel dies a week before trial ...dies 70 years after his crimes.

Auschwitz guard Ernst Tremmel dies a week before trial ...dies 70 years after his crimes.

Guilty before trial - how ironic considering the context.

Problem solved for all concerned. Except lawyers miss out on some money, no one cares.

I think that the families of those whose deaths he may have been responsible forwouldn't agree with your gratuitously cynical and insensitive view. They may have wanted to see him punished in his last days, rightly so.

Ludicrous. Do you think the families/decendants of all those identified as possibly on the particular transports and possibly killed at that time have been notified. And what was his job as a 19/20 year old.

Vengeance isn't justice. Even for the holocaust.

Problem solved for all concerned. Except lawyers miss out on some money, no one cares.

Latter-day fascists't, Neo-Nazis and the usual crowd care very much that such problems go away and are put to rest. Mind you many of them argue that 'no one cares' as a justification that such trials shouldn't go ahead.

He'll be happy he died a free man....well, almost.

How convenient.