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Friday, September 22, 2006 

Current mood:  confused
Category: News and Politics

::aiight people im about to get polictical and gritty with this one.... i saw this online and wanted to know what some opinions are. Let me know what you think should be done to  this woman found!!:::

 

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12023328/?GT1=8506

BERLIN - An 83-year-old German woman deported from the United States for concealing her Nazi past as a concentration camp guard is a war criminal and should be prosecuted, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said on Thursday.

Efraim Zuroff, head of the agency that tracks Nazis, said that U.S. authorities deserved praise for their diligence in finding Elfriede Lina Rinkel, who reportedly never told her late husband, a concentration camp survivor, of her past.

The U.S. Justice Department said this week Rinkel, who went to the United States in 1959, admitted she had served as a guard at the Ravensbruck concentration camp for women north of Berlin for the last 10 months of World War Two. She was deported to Germany earlier this month.


"She is a war criminal, she volunteered to work as a guard and walked around the camp watching over inmates with an attack dog," Zuroff said in a telephone interview from Jerusalem. "There's no room for misplaced sympathy. I hope Germans will prosecute her."

A spokeswoman for the German Justice Ministry in Berlin said they had not yet received any formal notification about Rinkel's deportation. She added, however, the authorities would be investigating if there were any grounds for suspicion of crimes.

Rinkel has reportedly returned to stay with a sister in a town near Dusseldorf but local authorities said they have no records of her registering with police as required.

Married to Holocaust survivor
Kurt Schrimm, state prosecutor and head of the Ludwigsburg central agency for clarification of Nazi war crimes, said he was informed about Rinkel by U.S. authorities but the agency had no records of the woman, whose maiden name was Huth.

"We've searched our archives but don't have anything on her," said Schrimm, whose agency has investigated 100,000 cases and helped prosecutors in more than 6,000 cases.

Zuroff said that the Wiesenthal Center also did not have any archive material on Rinkel, who according to the charging document filed in U.S. immigration court in San Francisco used a trained attack dog to carry out her duties.

He said the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations deserved credit for finding Rinkel, who according to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper had never told her husband, a Jew who fled Nazi Germany, about her Nazi past.

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Zuroff said the case was extraordinary for two reasons: Rinkel is a woman and married a concentration camp survivor.

"It doesn't happen every day," he said.

"But it is not uncommon that the closest relatives of people who served in Nazi units will not know what their loved ones did. This is the most difficult punishment for many — when their families learn what they really did during the war."

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DJ SOUL! A CHANGE GONNA COME!

 
She's 83, and her life has already been a prison.  At this point any punishment that she deserves she may have already received or is waiting for her in her next life. LET HER GO!

 
Posted by DJ SOUL! A CHANGE GONNA COME! on Friday, September 22, 2006 - 1:48 PM
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Temera
Temera Henderson

 
My godness on this woman's story. Vengeance is the Lord's, I agree with all three of the old post. Can I look at this woman and put her away as a jury. My heart can't do it. But how do we know if she wanted to be a guard or was force to be one. Listen to her story........ but to the survivors of that. I looked at Oprah when she did the story on the concentration camp.......God, the feeling that I had when I watched that story.
 
Posted by Temera on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - 10:08 PM
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RIP Shayne Fleming... Gone but not forgotten!
Jynxx ,Yeah just jynxx

 

Well I have been to a concentration camp so no one can tell you better than me how dreadful it is, even after the fact. Something about it is still haunting. I will never forget it for sure....I'll spare the details. 

With having said that I have to say that it is very difficult to judge.... and there's always ATLEAST 2 sides to a story. Only after hearing everything (or as close to it) can we decide, not judge. Only God can judge. I dont doubt for one minute that she has been haunted all of her life. And that is the worst thing that you, as a German, can carry around with you- a guilty Nazi past.

People like to point fingers and blame but fact of the matter is that many Germans did things that they didnt want to do ie not of their free will because of such engeniused institutions like the SS (Stazi). Hitler was no fool by any means. He made it impossible for you to trust our own spouse and children (bc they could be spying and ratting on you). If you were asked to serve, then you did just that. Otherwise you were opposing Hitler and you were killed.

There's too much behind that history to judge off of an article.... great blog tho!

 

~j                                  


 
Posted by RIP Shayne Fleming... Gone but not forgotten! on Thursday, November 16, 2006 - 1:59 AM
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Nikki LaShae

 

I wouldn't be misplaced sympathy. Let the Lord take care of that as I'm sure in her many years of keeping this secret, it has tormented her temendously. She married a concentration camp survivor! I believe she needs to be released and prayed for. That she is at peace with herself internally and has asked God for forgivness. Prosecuting one  person of many that have served won't bring back the lives lost during the Holocaust. This only breeds animosity and hatred and does the world really need any more of that?...

 

~Nikki L.


 
Posted by Nikki LaShae on Thursday, November 23, 2006 - 4:56 PM
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