On 6 Apr 2008 17:23:36 -0400 "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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carved the following into the hard stone of rec.arts.sf.fandom
>I just learned that Marinus van der Lubbe, who had been convicted by
>the Nazis of starting the Reichstag Fire in 1933, was exonerated by
>the Germans government earlier this year. (Unfortunately, he had been
>executed in 1934.)
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>I was surprised and dismayed, as I had figured that all Nazi-era
>criminal convictions would have been automatically reversed as soon
>as the Nazis were defeated.
Why? They did prosecute rapists, murderers, theives and the like along
with political hack-jobs like the Reichstag fire.
To just empty the prisons in 1945 would make things worse in an
already terrible situation.
>Since the US, like many other countries, does not allow people
>convicted of serious crimes to visit, that implies that over the years
>many people have been refused entry into the US on the grounds that
>the Gestapo didn't like them. "If Hitler's goons thought you deserved
>punishment, that's good enough for us -- we don't want your type.
>Go away."
Possibly. Of course, we probably denied entry to numerous felons.
--
Douglas E. Berry Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail
"Where is the prince who can afford so to cover
his country with troops for its defense, as that
ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might
not,in many places, do an infinite deal of mischief
before a force could be brought together to repel
them?" - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN-1784
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