Based on an article I read in the Hindu on Thursday,29th November, this operation is going to take the form of a media campaign in Chile, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, promising to offer rewards to any information that will lead to arrests and / or convictions of suspected war criminals. If what we’ve read in Fredrick Forsyth’s Odessa File has an iota of truth attached to it, the Nazis were given blank Argentinian passports which they utilized to their utmost benefit when they were fleeing the wrath of the allies.
Those that didn’t escape had Nuremberg to look forward to, with the allies as well as the disgruntled and highly oppressed local populace ensuring that swift and painful retribution was handed out to the Nazis, most of whom came up with the standard defence of how they were ‘just following orders’.
An operation of a similar kind was launched five years ago in Eastern Europe, in the states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, and was instrumental in unearthing what is considered to be some significant information regarding the present whereabouts of the war criminals.
Assuming that the Nazis were aged 20 in 1945 when the second World War ended, they would still be at the ripe old age of 82 during the present day. However, an age of 20 is a highly conservative assumption, because the ones that would have actually been higher up on the totem pole of the final solution implementation would be much older than 20, and hence probably passed on to another place where, hopefully, some higher form of justice would do what the Israelis failed to do.
Suchnews, of how war criminals die peacefully in their bed due to natural causes after inflicting unfathomable horror on a certain section of society in their country six decades ago shakes the very foundation of faith that us Good Karma gluttons somehow seem to subscribe to. If they don’t reap as they sow, then there certainly is little point to doing good, or so it might seem superficially.
Fortunately though, selfish people that do good only to increase the amount of Good Karma points that they can accumulate are also armed with a powerful conscience that removes any semblance of doubts one would have of the choices made and the subsequent actions taken in lieu thereof.
