Is it right? -Life sentence for 88 year old nazi?

Greetings fellow earthlings! Your loyal geek Kevan here again. So anyway guys I have decided that besides just having rants about my very boring life in this blog, I'm going to add in a new segment called "is it right?", which will discuss controversial topics from all over the world. This is the first time i'm doing something like this, so please leave your comments and suggestions!

So, before you read on please check out this article here, which my post will be revolving around.

Just a summary of this article for those of you who got bored after reading the first sentence: Germany has recently convicted a 88-year old ex-nazi for war crimes, including murdering 3 Dutch Civillians as a SS Assassin. He will be spending the rest of his life in jail.

So what do you guys think? Should we convict this man- who claims he was following direct orders from Hitler himself, and even implies that he was brainwashed when he committed murder? Should we even still convict WWII soldiers for war-crimes- men who are about to die from old age and other natural causes anyway? This is what I will be discussing in this blog post.

I shall first present my stand on the issue. Personally I do believe that the old man should not be convicted. I don't even think that ex-soldiers should even be convicted for war crimes. The country that is convicted for war -crimes is the country that loses the war, like in this case Germany. However, in war, EVERYONE IS A MURDERER. If the loser country is convicted, shouldn't the victor be too, since it was probably responsible for more deaths then the loser country.

Also, the "murderer" in question, the ex-nazi, like many of his fellow nazis, had been subject to brainwash since young, which means that his actions during the war have been greatly influenced by external factors. Since his orders came directly from Hitler, not following them would have led to the murdering of him and his family. Considering all these factors my heart goes out to the old ex-nazi, who is, as he says himself, already "waiting for death".

Since I found this topic of enough substance, I decided to use it for my current affairs interview with Mr. Eddie Lau, our form teacher. While Justin, my partner for the interview, has the same views as me, Mr Lau feels that the the ex-nazi should still be held accountable for the murders he was responsible, no matter under what circumstances. He even gave us some vague modern-day example of some student leader having done something which frankly speaking I did not really think was relevant to the topic, but I still really appreciate Mr. Lau's effort in pushing his point forward.

So where do you guys stand? Do you, like me and Justin, pity the old ex-Nazi and think he should be allowed the rest of his life, or do you, like Mr Lau, believe that he should still be convicted anyway and held accountable to all the relatives of the murdered? Please your interesting and thought-worthy comments below! I eagerly reply your comments.

Signing off

~Kevan