Take part in the massacre of over 300 Jews, and don’t sweat the punishment. If you live long enough, the authorities will let you out of house arrest to go to work every day, and even go out for lunch breaks.
Italian Jews protested on Monday outside the lawyer’s office at which a 93-year-old Nazi war criminal was starting work following a court ruling that allows him to leave house arrest every day.
About 100 people, some shouting “Murderer!”, gathered outside the Rome office where former SS Captain Erich Priebke, jailed for life for the massacre of 335 men and boys at the Ardeatine Caves near Rome during World War Two, was beginning his first day at work.
Yes, another Nazi war criminal who hid out in Argentina and lived a long, happy, and healthy life—unlike the men and boys that he murdered.
A military court ruled last week that Priebke, who is serving his sentence under house arrest for health reasons, can work for Giachini, who campaigned for his freedom and in whose Rome flat Priebke lives. The lawyer says Priebke will use his knowledge of German, Spanish, English and French to do translations and clerical work at his office.
Priebke was extradited to Italy in 1995 from Argentina, where he fled after the war and worked for decades as a schoolteacher.
“The law says that after a period in prison inmates have the right to certain benefits, because detention here in Italy isn’t just punitive, it tries to re-educate those who have been condemned,” Giachini told Reuters outside his office.
Sure. Re-education of a Nazi. Because he’s shown so much repentance for what he did, that he avoided justice for 50 years. And he gets to go out to lunch, too!
The ruling lets Priebke go to the office “every day, freely” and “go out to satisfy, at nearby places and for the time strictly necessary, the indispensable necessities of life” — meaning he can pop out for lunch.
It’s good to know that the Italian authorities care so much about the rights of mass murderers, as opposed, say, to the victims of the murderers.
“It’s an absolute disgrace, people forget,” Leone Sonnino, an 80-year-old Jewish man, told Reuters Television. “People say ‘It’s enough now’. Enough for what? Nothing should be enough, there can never be enough grief.”
Leone, you forget the primary rule of Jewish existence: Nobody but Jews really cares about dead Jews. The Holocaust rather proved that.
Ah, but remember, catholics believe in hell.
The hauntingly beautiful and sombre memorial at the “Fosse Ardeatine” – near the catacombs – is visited by perhaps 1% of Rome’s tourists. Fifty years ago, all Romans were aware of the German massacre of 300+ innocent Italian citizens, and were enraged by it! Today, “no one” knows what happened; no one seems to care — except some old Jews. Peccato! [What a sin!]
And yet, Nancy, that thought does not lessen in the least my contempt and anger for the Italian authorities who let the Nazi out of prison, or the Argentinians, who protected him these many years.
Real Catholics would believe that those who protected the murderer will be punished as well. Unfortunately, those who protected (and are protecting) him do not believe in reward or punishment. That is why they think that they can get away with their crimes.
Killing Jews gets old to a lot of people. Sad so sad !!