Opinion: Why Nazi Hunting Is Still A Worthy Pursuit?

Many young men have killed over 100 innocent people, they killed mothers, fathers, and children. They didn’t think before killing these people, they just did it. Then, people find out what they have done, and many of these men found a way to get away without punishment. The men live their lives, get other jobs, get married, and even have children. As they live on, the people that they have killed never get to experience the rest of their lives, they are only a memory. Finally, almost 80 years later people find out what they have done in the past. These men are well into their nineties and are being put on trial for their crimes. Some do not believe that this is not right since so many years have passed since they have done these crimes. Even
Millions of people still lost their lives, and these men were the reason why. Justice must be brought to these people. In the article, Opinion: Why Nazi hunting is still a worthy pursuit, it states that even with how much time has passed these men “... are just as guilty today as the day they committed their crime” (Zuroff,Efralm. “Opinion: Why Nazi hunting is still a worthy pursuit.”). As shown, no matter how much time passes, these men still took so many innocent lives. They still should be charged the same with an 80 year difference or an one year difference. Additionally, Ingo Muller claimed that, “We can’t just let it stand that the German judiciary says participating in the Holocaust is not a crime” (Kozlowska, Hanna. “Should We Continue to Prosecute Nazi War Criminals?”). This describes that Germany can not say that men murdering hundreds of people is not a crime, because murdering innocent people is and always will be a crime, even if the murders happened 80 years ago. These people still died, and these men still killed them. No matter what people say, these men are murderers no matter
Elie Wiesel lost his family in the holocaust, which he proclaimed, “Who dares to tell me my parents were not killed in the camps”(“Elie Wiesel testifies in Barbie trial”). With this, it clarifies that he had to live without parents, as they were killed in the concentration camps of the Holocaust, killed by the hand of these men. Furthermore, Thomas Walter implied that it is the “victims’ last chance to bring justice to” the men who have killed their relatives (Kozlowska, Hanna. “Should We Continue to Prosecute Nazi War Criminals?”). This makes it clear that this could be the last thing for families of the ones who were killed to have justice. As they had to suffer through these years without these people, they want and need justice for the murders of their