Frankly… not quite. Is this about dogs, concentration camps, deportation of Nazis? Some of your comments seem disjointed, and I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking.
Germany, most likely. If his wife is here legally, she can stay- but he is indeed facing deportation to Germany. Or possibly Israel.
There is no “in his thoughts” here- he is here illegally. Per Stuffy’s second link, Henss lied about his concentration camp service. He knowingly defrauded the government, and had 52 years to correct his lie. He chose not to, which implies to me that the guilt can’t be too much to bear.
What dog? The dog that’s been dead for the better part of half a century? Are you arguing that we should punish the people who provided guard dogs to the camps? If such people are found, and found to have knowingly raised, trained, and provided guard dogs to the SS for use in the camps, then yes, they should be punished. If they are found to have been simply breeders of a certain type of dog that was purchased and then used for the camps without the breeder’s knowledge, then no- no more than a Humane Society should be held responsible if a dog they adopted out is trained as an attack dog and kills someone.
Um, yes. Yes, it does go back to those people. But again, you’re clouding the issue. The wrongdoing here is simple:
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Henss volunteered for duty in the Waffen SS, and eventually became an attack dog instructor at the camps.
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Documents apparently exist that show Henss personally guarded prisoners and labor details. One can infer that he participated in the killing of prisoners as a result of his employment.
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Henss came to the US in 1955, intentionally concealed his history, and has lived here ever since.
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Authorities have caught up with him and want to see him deported and held responsible for his actions.
The dogs are nothing but tools that Henss used to carry out his murders for him. They are no more to blame than the guns/knives/gas/ovens that others used. They didn’t “breed a dog to bite” potential escapees; they trained an animal to behave a certain way, and it did. It was the man behind the dog that was responsible for giving the order to attack, and regardless of how frail/confused/whatever he is now, he needs to be held accountable.
This is where I am completely lost. First, animals don’t “hate” in the way you appear to be using the word. Secondly, as I mentioned earlier, those dogs have been dead for longer than most of us have been alive. Are you asking if all modern-day GSDs have an innate hatred of Jews because some of their fellow breed members were used as attack dogs at concentration camps? The idea of such a thing is beyond preposterous, and I honestly would think that someone personally involved in animal rights would know differently.
Or are you asking if the dogs used at the camps hated Jews? That idea is also ridiculous- how would they know, other than “That stringy-looking guy over there in the striped outfit”? Do K-9s “hate” criminals? Of course not. They “attack” (quotes intentional) whomever their handler points them at. Otherwise it would be hell trying to take them for a walk off-duty. The dogs used at the camps attacked anyone their handler pointed them at, and they did it because 1) they had been trained to, and 2) they had the inherent dog desire to please their owner by doing a good job.
Even the most heinous killer had, at some point in their life, someone who loved them. I grew up with Aleksandras Lileikis. Went to church with him, my brother cut his lawn, we went trick-or-treating to his house. He was a nice guy. That doesn’t mean I didn’t become ill when I heard the news of who he really was, or that I didn’t rejoice when I heard he’d been deported.
Rosenbaum doesn’t typically make public statements unless he has the documentation to back him up- he learned that lesson with Lileikis. Henss may not be officially charged with anything, but that may have more to do with the slowness of this whole process. If the documentation is correct, Henss is a killer, pure and simple, and should be sent back to be tried.
I would be very curious to know what Henns’ “explanation” was. :rolleyes:
