THE ISSUE: The deportation of accused Nazi death-camp guard John Demjanjuk.
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There are people who don’t think anything should be done to John Demjanjuk. Their argument is based on the fact that he has lived in America for over 60 years, that he has led a clean life here and that what he did in the past doesn’t matter (“The Last Nazi,” Editorial, May 13).
They are probably the same people who agree with Iranian President Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust never happened. As a Jew who lost family members, I can only pray that no other group goes through what we did. If you do, I’m sure you would want justice, no matter how many years later.
Bret Wallach
Hicksville
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Your editorial misses an important point. It is all right and acceptable to put him on trial for Nazi war crimes 65 years after the fact. There is no outcry from the left on this.
Yet the liberals are clamoring to release the Guantanamo terrorist detainees? Go figure.
Kim Kuhlmann
Blairstown, NJ
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Individuals who are accessories to genocide must be pursued to the ends of the earth and until the end of their lives.
My late father’s parents were murdered in a concentration camp in 1944, while they were in the prime of their lives. My father was only able to get out of his native Austria by virtue of being a participant in an international scholars program.
I will never be able to understand how inhumanity and savagery could be adopted by most of a nation, crimes against humanity hideously inflicted on innocent people, so many of whom were upstanding, intellectual, contributing members of society.
What was done to members of the Jewish faith and members of other scapegoat groups in the 1930s and 1940s must never be forgotten or forgiven, and those who perpetrated it deserve no peace.
May the tireless and valorous Nazi-hunters be recipients of all of God’s blessings.
Oren M. Spiegler
Upper Saint Clair, Pa.