Suspect in Nazi trial proud of his SS service

[Will E Worm]

Suspect in Nazi trial proud of his SS service

A man accused of murdering Dutch civilians as a member of a Waffen SS hit squad said at his trial Friday that he was proud about being chosen as a volunteer to fight for the Nazis.

Heinrich Boere, 88, made his first comments to the Aachen state court since his trial opened at the end of October. As part of that SS unit, he is charged with killing a bicycle-shop owner, a pharmacist and another civilian. He faces a possible sentence of life in prison if convicted.

Boere said he remembered his mother waking him up the night in 1940 that Germany invaded his hometown in the Netherlands and seeing Stuka dive-bombers overhead. Instead of fearing the German bombs, Boere, whose father was Dutch and mother German, said his family was elated as the attack unfolded.

"(My mother) said 'they're coming' now things will be better," he told the court, speaking animatedly to the panel of judges.

"It was better," he added later.

Boere was born in Eschweiler, Germany, on the outskirts of Aachen where he lives today, but moved to the Netherlands when he was an infant.

After the Germans had overrun his hometown of Maastricht and the rest of the Netherlands, he remembers as an 18-year-old seeing a recruiting poster for the Waffen SS, signed by Heinrich Himmler. It offered German citizenship after two years of service and the possibility of becoming a policeman after that.

He showed up with 100 other Dutchmen at the recruitment office and was one of 15 chosen.

"I was very proud," Boere told the court in a statement read by his attorney before he answered questions from the presiding judge.

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[LukeEl]

I thought he was dead...I could have sworn that I killed him in Call of Duty!

 

[meesterperfect]

ok he was very proud at the time, i would be too.

btw have we gone after any japanese recently for rape, burning alive, decapitating, flaying,torturing , using people including allied prisoners for horrific experiments or using chinese babies for bayonet practice, all on a huge scale?

don't believe everything thats been taught to you.

 

[Ace Bandage]

ok he was very proud at the time, i would be too.

You'd be happy that you killed a bicycle shop owner and a pharmacist? What the fuck is wrong with you? I realize that we all have freedom of speech on this board. Sometimes I just wish it was restricted to people with an IQ higher than a watermelon...

Sure, everyone has a right to an opinion. Yours just happens to be wrong.

 

[GregCentauro]

Sure, everyone has a right to an opinion. Yours just happens to be wrong.

That's FreeOnes, mate: Tube sites are evil, antisemitism is condoned. :dunno:

 

[meesterperfect]

You'd be happy that you killed a bicycle shop owner and a pharmacist? What the fuck is wrong with you? I realize that we all have freedom of speech on this board. Sometimes I just wish it was restricted to people with an IQ higher than a watermelon...

Sure, everyone has a right to an opinion. Yours just happens to be wrong.

are you that easily fooled?
he said when he got accepted he was proud
was is the past tense of is.
dont be so manipulated by the media.

so yeah, if i was 18 years old and got accepted to an elite group i would have been proud too.
and thats a statement not an opinion.

i dont know what he did, it was 60 years ago, i wasnt there.
i read simple grammar and understood it, unlike you genius.

 

[georges]

too bad he wasn't hung with a rope to a tree after world war 2.

 

[titsrock]

Why are you talking yourself into a :ban: meester? Is this not simple nazi sympathizing uttered by some old guy? Maybe you should've read the parts of this report which WillE declined to post...:dunno:

 

[meesterperfect]

too bad he wasn't hung with a rope to a tree after world war 2.

why georges because he is german?
he was a german soldier, so obviously he fought for germany.
and we dont know the people he killed.
it says there were killed "for resistance attacks on collaborators".
so they werent just innocent people, they were involved in the war.
they got killed.
fuck man why not just round up every soldier who ever fought for their country and kill them.
everybody's conditionally affected by the word nazi, like pavlovian dogs.
he was a soldier , he killed, thats how it works in wartime.

 

[Friday on my mind]

You know I may have to seem to defend Mr P here.

As he says the "I was proud" statement here seems to refer to his being accepted to the elite SS at the time he was accepted.Whether or not he feels proud about his action later (which of course he should not) is not mentioned.

The real story here is he is finally being brought to justice for his crimes while a member of the SS, not whether he was proud he was admitted.That is an inconsequential fact IMO.

He should spend whatever time he has left in prison.Thats about as much justice as can be had at this late date,

 

[Will E Worm]

Maybe you should've read the parts of this report which WillE declined to post...:dunno:

You're not supposed to post a long article or the entire article.

why georges because he is german?

No, because he was proud to be Nazi SS. A SS Nazi that murdered people that weren't enemy soldiers.
Some Nazis killed themselves because they couldn't live with what they had done and what they were doing.
I would believe some even went AWOL.

Which would have been better than suicide or being proud of serving evil.

 

[meesterperfect]

Why are you talking yourself into a :ban: meester? Is this not simple nazi sympathizing uttered by some old guy? Maybe you should've read the parts of this report which WillE declined to post...:dunno:

i read the article tits, he said he WAS proud when he got CHOSEN.thats it.
was was was.
thats what the article said.
what should he say, "i was so ashamed and disgraced when i WAS chosen.
either way their gonna lock him up
and if i want to nazi sympathize which i'm not even doing i will.
OH I CAN GET BANNED FOR THAT?
its a good thing i'm not doing it, i'm just reading simple grammar.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Heinrich Boere, 88, made his first comments to the Aachen state court since his trial opened at the end of October. As part of that SS unit, he is charged with killing a bicycle-shop owner, a pharmacist and another civilian. He faces a possible sentence of life in prison if convicted.

Life sentence for an 88 year old? What's that? 3-5 year prison sentence? Hopefully it will be a very long and suffering last years of his life.

 

[meesterperfect]

You're not supposed to post a long article or the entire article.



No, because he was proud to be Nazi SS. A SS Nazi that murdered people that weren't enemy soldiers.
Some Nazis killed themselves because they couldn't live with what they had done and what they were doing.
I would believe some even went AWOL.

Which would have been better than suicide or being proud of serving evil.

man you dont see the big picture,
one point, apparently or maybe these people he killed had involved themselves in non civillian activities like "resistance attacks on collaborators".
now they are not just innocent civillians but involved in the war, you might get killed by the enemy for that.
point 2, he was a german soldier fighting for germany, that was his job.
point 3, try to follow this, if the US and mexico go to war and mexico wins, should all US soldiers who fought and killed be locked up for "being evil", which they certainly would be considered in the united states of mexico?
#4 you people are just blinded by the word nazi, fuck finding out the facts, he was a nazi soldier so kill him.


thats how i see it, whether the guy was german, polish or bratslavian does not affect my opinion.

 

[Will E Worm]

man you dont see the big picture,
one point, apparently or maybe these people he killed had involved themselves in non civillian activities like "resistance attacks on collaborators".
now they are not just innocent civillians but involved in the war, you might get killed by the enemy for that.
point 2, he was a german soldier fighting for germany, that was his job.
point 3, try to follow this, if the US and mexico go to war and mexico wins, should all US soldiers who fought and killed be locked up for "being evil", which they certainly would be considered in the united states of mexico?
#4 you people are just blinded by the word nazi, fuck finding out the facts, he was a nazi soldier so kill him.


thats how i see it.

man you dont see the big picture

thats how i see it

Make up your mind.

Anyway, you see it wrong. There isn't evidence of any of them being in a resistance army.
As I already said some Nazi's committed suicide and went AWOL, because of the things they had to do to people.
Mexico beating America? :1orglaugh They wouldn't get past the Texas Rangers.

The Nazis were guilty of war crimes. That's why they ran and they should have been caught and killed.
It is about time to stop the hunt.

Many of the Nazis who should have been caught and given the death penalty unfortunately escaped. (Josef Mengele)

 

[jasonk282]

I was under the impression that Mengele was caught in Argentina several years later.

Point is whether he did his job, he now has to pay for it, hell he is 88 not like it's going to be a long time for his LIFE sentence to wear out.

 

[Friday on my mind]

I was under the impression that Mengele was caught in Argentina several years later.

Point is whether he did his job, he now has to pay for it, hell he is 88 not like it's going to be a long time for his LIFE sentence to wear out.

Nope they never found Mengele,you might be thinking of Eichmann who was found brought to israel and convicted and executed in the early 60s.

The guy here was sentenced to death for reprisal killings.It's too bad he has escaped justice all these years.Best we can do now is give him a samll cell and isolation for his remaining years

 

[Will E Worm]

I was under the impression that Mengele was caught in Argentina several years later.

By the time Eichmann had been brought out of the country, Mengele had escaped to Paraguay.
Mengele was a secondary objective of this operation, but was never found.

Mengele escaped to Hohenhau, Paraguay
He evaded capture for 34 years.

Mengele died from a stroke while swimming.

 

[jasonk282]

By the time Eichmann had been brought out of the country, Mengele had escaped to Paraguay.
Mengele was a secondary objective of this operation, but was never found.

Mengele escaped to Hohenhau, Paraguay
He evaded capture for 34 years.

Mengele died from a stroke while swimming.

Well now he is dead. justice was eventually done.

 

[Will E Worm]

Well now he is dead. justice was eventually done.

Well, of course he was going to die eventually.

It would have been better to capture Mengele judge him for his crimes and then send him to the electric chair.