Why did the Red Cros wait 60 years before opening the German Penal Records ?
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Sometimes governments have rules on how long the keep records secret. As for the Red Cross I am not sure why they would have kept all of those records secret for so long.\n\nThere are currently millions of Holocaust documents being help in secret while the countries holding them decide how to release them. It is possible the Red Cross was not wanting to release too much personal information by releasing them too early. \n\nIt is strange they would have held them for so long.
1072057
When Hitler was killing 10's of millions in Germany, why was he never arrested.  \n\np.s. don't mean to cause offense to any one but this needs to be discussed.
34834
Unfortunately, the website does not have records dating back to 1967. You might need to actually go to the court where the case was held and ask for the records.
183887
It wasn't the first.  I know the Permanent Court of International Justice was set up in the 1920's.  That is the first that I am aware of.
968930
How old are you know?\nUnderage convictions do have some records protection.
898282
The US did this in WWII for small time offenders.  The judges gave them a choice, jail or join the militay.  Sounds like a great idea.\n\nWhy a thumbs down, its true.
297273
The bombing of Dresden was a war crime, not because there were civilians or because it had little military value. It was a war crime because the German government had declared it an "open city." This, under the rule of war determined in the Hague in I believe 1912 means that Germany would take no actions to defend the city or to use it for supplying the war effort (would not fly fighter planes over it, would not set up anti-aircraft guns, would not build supplies, would not route arms trains through its rail yards, would not station active troops there, etc), and in return the Allies would agree not to attack it. In fact, the British commander who had organized the attack was fired and under investigation within 24 hours after the attack.\n\nIt has been contended that the purpose of the attack was to break the last spirit of resistance of the German military or to cause an uprising against the German government to stop the war, much like the modern idea of "shock and awe."\n\nHiroshima and Nagasaki were not open cities, and as such the attack on them was not a war crime. Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been intentionally spared earlier bombing not because they had little importance (they both were used for production of war materials, etc), but because in 1942 when the decision was made to build the atomic bombs and deploy them against Japan it was decided they needed to be used against a target in pristine condition. If dropped on Tokyo, which was already a smoking ruin, no one would have known anything had happened.
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It may not be in his hands. Hopefully the German War Crime charges which are being considered will come to fruition now that he and his boss lack political clout.\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6146058.stm
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Germans were for ages very pedantic. They kept their records meticulously for generations. To be determined a Jew, it was enough for you to have one Jewish grandparent.\nSometimes there were exceptions to the rule, but mostly there weren't. It wasn't a problem at all, to look three generations back at the archives and find out what happens to you. \nIn very special cases, Hitler himself has overridden the case, but it happened only very few times. Generally the Nazi machine never deviated from the standard in that respect.
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You're not...\nBut it was'nt YOU who comitted those crimes, so dont worry about it. But if you blame Germany for what they did in the past, then you should blame yourself too.\nWorry about the millions of people GBush is killing NOW...
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The Nazis weren's punished for breaching unwritten laws. The restriction of trial and punishment by the international tribunal to personnel of the Axis countries has led to accusations of victor's justice and that Allied war crimes could not be tried. However it is usual that the armed forces of a civilised country  issue their forces with detailed guidance on what is and is not permitted under their military code. These are drafted to include any international treaty obligations and the customary laws of war. For example at the trial of Otto Skorzeny his defence was in part based on the Field Manual published by the War Department of the United States Army, on 1 October 1940, and the American Soldiers' Handbook.\n\n The unconditional surrender of the Axis powers was unusual and led directly to the formation of the international tribunals. Usually international wars end conditionally and the treatment of suspected war criminals makes up part of the peace treaty. In most cases those who are not prisoners of war are tried under their own judicial system if they are suspected of committing war crimes – as happened the end of the concurrent Continuation War and led to the war-responsibility trials in Finland. In restricting the international tribunal to trying suspected Axis war crimes, the Allies were acting within normal international law.\n\nThe legal basis for the jurisdiction of the court was that defined by the Instrument of Surrender of Germany, political authority for Germany had been transferred to the Allied Control Council which having sovereign power over Germany could choose to punish violations of international law and the laws of war. Because the court was limited to violations of the laws of war, it did not have jurisdiction over crimes that took place before the outbreak of war on September 1, 1939.
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Usually like 20 or so years. They can have up to three appeals, the first of which is free. Each of these is like a brand new trial. It takes so long because murder is not something to be taken lightly. The state is taking another human beings life (murder) and they want to make sure that they are executing the right person and that no more exonerating evidence shows up which has happened many times in the past.
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Althugh parole scarcely exists in many systems these days, this takes care of the matter if it is brought back.\n\nMany, many criminals will die in prison these days. I have no problem with that; except that for those sentenced in the 1960s-1980s when the judge took account of the fact that most prisoners were released after serving half their sentence, there is some unfairness. Like the teenagers sentenced to "llfe" when life meant 20 years. Only now it means life, retroactively.
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Unfortunately, due to the recent flash of facism these days, he will receive a completely unorthodox amount of time behind bars or probation.\n\nAll you can hope is that the people involved in his case are not a bunch of assholes and will either give him his first offence warning or maybe rehab.
1032446
Sometime there is, it is called 'Statute of Limitations'.  Not sure about law as it applies to refugee's though.
361208
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer), initially constructed in 1961 and dismantled in the weeks following November 9, 1989, was the most prominent part of the GDR border system and was an iconic symbol of the Cold War.
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They can go all the way back. certain crimes have no statute of limitations e.g. murder. and when it comes to the governments money, they won't write it off.