BAD MEN WITH BAD NAMES!
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Laszlo-Csizsik-Castary is the name of a man, born in Slovakia in 1915, has lived in various countries since 1945.....always one step from capture. He was a policeman, a laborer, and an art dealer during his working years, and now.....well he is on house arrest, awaiting a possible trail for war crimes during World War 2.
I always take "war crimes" with somewhat a grain of salt, basically because of the very nature of war. Some people seem to think that there are rules in war, somewhere in a book published by.....well that's just it, nobody knows who the publisher is or who wrote the rules. That's why war is to be avoided at all costs, and negotiations used for however long it takes.
Of course World War 2 was out of our control....."we were attacked," by Japan, and Nazi Germany had to be dealt with in a harsh manner, but little was learned from those two military fronts. Unless you don't count Korea as a war, which broke out just 7 years after the 1945 victory over both Japan, Germany and their alleys.
Like most of you, I thought Nazi hunting was over and done with, that the Simon Wiesenthal Center had closed up shop, and it's members had gone home. But no, there still out there, looking for really old men.....now all in their nineties. One things for sure, whomever remains can't run very fast, if at all, oxygen tank hoses tend to get tangled if a person decides to run.
I can understand the almost fanatical over zealous feeling of these "hunters," trying to bring these war criminals to justice. Those that stood the human atrocities, those that witnessed the human degradation on a daily basis need some sort of justice. I do not believe in the term "closure," never have and never will. Torturing a person, or losing a loved one to torture can never be erased, the image is always there, and lived with every day. Revenge, yes, closure, never.
Nazi Germany dealt with either war prisoners or Jews in the same manner, brutally, inhumanly and ruthlessly. To my way of thinking killing them all would have been a better way to deal with an enemy. The Jewish question and solution arrived at during Hitler's regime was, brutal, but when you think about the question logically, killing the Jews was by far the ecomonical way to approach the issue. That said, I do not consider genocide of a sect, or race of people to be a healthy alternative to hatred or rascism.
Many people today hold an animosity towards black or brown colored people, superiority is a chief reason for their feelings. Personally I dispise prejudice towards anybody, I work every day of my life to "smooth out" my feelings towards people of color. We are all the same under our exterior and we all have the same wants, needs and desires.
Laszlo Csatary, during World War 2 proportedly helped organize the deportation of some 15,700 Jews to the Auschwitz death camp. During the war, Csatary was a senior police officer in Kosice, or Kosice City, Kaschau, or Kassa, Hungary. No matter which name was used at the time, in the summer of 1944, the city of close to 80,000 became a sub-station for transporting Jews to Auschwitz extermination camp number 1, 2, or number 3.
Of course Auschwitz-Birkenau is by far the most infamous of all the extermination camps that was operated by the Germans during the war. Some Jews, or war prisoners arrived at the camp and immediately executed. More then 1 million people were murdered at the Aushwitz killing complex, there is a debate as to the exact number that parished at the camp, but for me, 1 is to much.
Laszlo Csatary was in charge of the Kosice ghetto in 1944 from where thousands of people were hauled by train to the furnaces or gas chambers at Auschwitz. Koisice was occupied by Nazi ally Hungary, and is now Slovakia. In 1948, a Czechoslovakian court condemned Csatary to death in absentia.
Csatary escaped to Canada where he worked as an art dealer in Montreal and Toronto until the 1990's when his citizenship was stripped and he again was forced to flee. He traveled to Budapest, Hungary and lived undisturbed until the Wiesenthal Center tracked him down in 2011.
He was detained on July 17th. by Budapest police and questioned about his orchestrating the deportation and eventual murder of 15,700 Jewish Hungarians. The events took place 68 years ago in an area that now falls under the jurisdiction of another country which raises several investigative and legal problems.
Of course there is outrage today, to bring Csatary to justice and eliminate one more of the few war criminals that remain free and alive. Anti-Semites have also come to the forefront to spew their rediculous garbage about the inaccurate accounts of the holocost and what it has meant to the world.
Several things are perfectly clear, Csatary was a high ranking police official at Koisice, he was in charge of the Jewish Ghetto, and has been remembered by some victims and onlookers as a brutal man who routinely beat women and old people.
Koisice had a population approaching 80,000 in 1944, of which 20,000 were of the Jewish race, after January, 1945 the Jewish number plummited to less then 4000. On May 19, 1944, 3352 Jews were transported to Aushwitz, another expulsion train, on May 24, 1944 left holding 3172. During the night of June 3 and 4, 1944, a final transport left for the death camp holding 2439. In all, during about a 6 week period, some 15,700 people were expelled from Koisice, Hungary.
Of those people.....not one person ever saw the light of freedom again, each person, men, women and child met their fate in the horific gas chambers or the creamatory ovens of Aushwitz. Surely Laszlo Csatary knew what was happening, his hands have been dripping innocent blood for the past 68 years and his judgement day is closer each day he wakes.
Nazi hunters jobs are almost at an end, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's authority with regards to war criminals apprehensions and trial(s) are at an end, the ravages of time having taken their toll on those remaining people.
Koisice, Hungary is now a bustling city of close to a quarter of a million people, Jews, homosexuals, Gypsys, the lame and the mentally retarded can walk together on any street in the community. People like Csatary are a dark rememberance to a by-gone time when insanity ruled. Those brutish, racist, rapers that used to roam the streets are now mostly all gone. There are but a few left, and they will be gone within a few years.
What we.....as member citizens of the world need to remember is that state leaders can, and are people to be watched.....because absolute power.....corrupts absolutely.
Nazi Germany dealt with either war prisoners or Jews in the same manner, brutally, inhumanly and ruthlessly. To my way of thinking killing them all would have been a better way to deal with an enemy. The Jewish question and solution arrived at during Hitler's regime was, brutal, but when you think about the question logically, killing the Jews was by far the ecomonical way to approach the issue. That said, I do not consider genocide of a sect, or race of people to be a healthy alternative to hatred or rascism.
Many people today hold an animosity towards black or brown colored people, superiority is a chief reason for their feelings. Personally I dispise prejudice towards anybody, I work every day of my life to "smooth out" my feelings towards people of color. We are all the same under our exterior and we all have the same wants, needs and desires.
Laszlo Csatary, during World War 2 proportedly helped organize the deportation of some 15,700 Jews to the Auschwitz death camp. During the war, Csatary was a senior police officer in Kosice, or Kosice City, Kaschau, or Kassa, Hungary. No matter which name was used at the time, in the summer of 1944, the city of close to 80,000 became a sub-station for transporting Jews to Auschwitz extermination camp number 1, 2, or number 3.
Of course Auschwitz-Birkenau is by far the most infamous of all the extermination camps that was operated by the Germans during the war. Some Jews, or war prisoners arrived at the camp and immediately executed. More then 1 million people were murdered at the Aushwitz killing complex, there is a debate as to the exact number that parished at the camp, but for me, 1 is to much.
Laszlo Csatary was in charge of the Kosice ghetto in 1944 from where thousands of people were hauled by train to the furnaces or gas chambers at Auschwitz. Koisice was occupied by Nazi ally Hungary, and is now Slovakia. In 1948, a Czechoslovakian court condemned Csatary to death in absentia.
Csatary escaped to Canada where he worked as an art dealer in Montreal and Toronto until the 1990's when his citizenship was stripped and he again was forced to flee. He traveled to Budapest, Hungary and lived undisturbed until the Wiesenthal Center tracked him down in 2011.
He was detained on July 17th. by Budapest police and questioned about his orchestrating the deportation and eventual murder of 15,700 Jewish Hungarians. The events took place 68 years ago in an area that now falls under the jurisdiction of another country which raises several investigative and legal problems.
Of course there is outrage today, to bring Csatary to justice and eliminate one more of the few war criminals that remain free and alive. Anti-Semites have also come to the forefront to spew their rediculous garbage about the inaccurate accounts of the holocost and what it has meant to the world.
Several things are perfectly clear, Csatary was a high ranking police official at Koisice, he was in charge of the Jewish Ghetto, and has been remembered by some victims and onlookers as a brutal man who routinely beat women and old people.
Koisice had a population approaching 80,000 in 1944, of which 20,000 were of the Jewish race, after January, 1945 the Jewish number plummited to less then 4000. On May 19, 1944, 3352 Jews were transported to Aushwitz, another expulsion train, on May 24, 1944 left holding 3172. During the night of June 3 and 4, 1944, a final transport left for the death camp holding 2439. In all, during about a 6 week period, some 15,700 people were expelled from Koisice, Hungary.
Of those people.....not one person ever saw the light of freedom again, each person, men, women and child met their fate in the horific gas chambers or the creamatory ovens of Aushwitz. Surely Laszlo Csatary knew what was happening, his hands have been dripping innocent blood for the past 68 years and his judgement day is closer each day he wakes.
Nazi hunters jobs are almost at an end, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's authority with regards to war criminals apprehensions and trial(s) are at an end, the ravages of time having taken their toll on those remaining people.
Koisice, Hungary is now a bustling city of close to a quarter of a million people, Jews, homosexuals, Gypsys, the lame and the mentally retarded can walk together on any street in the community. People like Csatary are a dark rememberance to a by-gone time when insanity ruled. Those brutish, racist, rapers that used to roam the streets are now mostly all gone. There are but a few left, and they will be gone within a few years.
What we.....as member citizens of the world need to remember is that state leaders can, and are people to be watched.....because absolute power.....corrupts absolutely.
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