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Article: Ayoon Wa Azan ( They Have No Ancient Presence There Or Kingdoms ).(Column)
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- Dar Al Hayat, International ed. (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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Byline: Jihad El-Khazen
In recent news, Heinrich Bauer, a former Nazi soldier, is now on trial in Aachen for the murder of three Dutch resistance fighters in 1944, to which he confessed at the time.
Bauer is now eighty-eight; even if he is to be sentenced to life imprisonment, this would practically mean that he will only serve a few years in prison. Also, the Germans are going to try John Demjanjuk in Munich next month, who is accused of being involved in murdering Jews at the Nazi concentration camps.
As such, Germany, Europe and the United States are trying suspects in crimes that were committed more than sixty years ago, while they are ...