How far back, should we go when wanting apologies or reparations for a wrong doing?

[Ihavenojob]

anything which happened more than 70 years ago is just history, no one should be apologising or giving any reparations for wrong doings over 70 years old unless processing were started before it was started before 70 years ago, and still in process.

A Nazi concentration camp guard is set to stand trial in Germany soon. That sort of thing is ongoing as it started decades ago. It cant realistically go on much longer. Will he have to make reparations I wonder?

 

[fillyboy]

A Nazi concentration camp guard is set to stand trial in Germany soon. That sort of thing is ongoing as it started decades ago. It cant realistically go on much longer. Will he have to make reparations I wonder?

Is Germany Still Paying Reparations For World War 2?

Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 sparked the deadliest war in history. Has Germany paid its debts for the atrocities it has committed?

www.worldatlas.com

Perhaps the most crucial aspect of Germany's reparations relates to the Holocaust. Six million Jews were killed in World War II, two out of every three in Europe. But, when the state of Israel was created in 1948, it was now possible for Germany to pay reparations to Jews via an organized political unit. Therefore, in September 1952, West Germany agreed to pay Israel three billion Deutschmarks (714 million USD) over the next 14 years. Furthermore, Holocaust survivors continue to receive restitution payments to this day. Indeed, from 1945 to 2018, Germany paid over 86 billion USD to these survivors.

Fair enough really, 6 mil is a fairly big number.

 

[ellal]

One wonders when the state of Israel will start paying reparations to the Palestinians...

Oops, I think I just saw a pig flying past my window

 

[securespark]

What about these people who have done wrong? Is it it pointless they pay reparation too?

 

[ReganAndCarter]

One wonders when the state of Israel will start paying reparations to the Palestinians...

Oops, I think I just saw a pig flying past my window

Please, have some respect! They're halal. The Palestinian terrorists that is, not the pigs.

 

[Notch7]

 

[Brigadier]

Jeez us wept......

 

[johnny2007]

We should go back as far as Adam and Eve.
Those 2 ruined it for everyone else...

 

[aveatry]

We should go back as far as Adam and Eve.
Those 2 ruined it for everyone else...

I think you will find that was actually Eve who was the one who picked the apple after listening to a snake, Adam not wanting his wife to take the rap on her own also had a couple of bites too. Here endeth the lesson - dont listen to snakes.

 

[Vinty]

A Nazi concentration camp guard is set to stand trial in Germany soon. That sort of thing is ongoing as it started decades ago. It cant realistically go on much longer. Will he have to make reparations I wonder?

Putting these people on trial is more to keep the Holocaust in the public eye than it is to do with justice for victims of the Nazis.
They ran out of real war criminals years ago, they then changed the law to make criminals out of people who did things that weren't actually criminal under the rules of war at the time.
I think it's referred to as ex post facto legislation, a bit like charging someone for smoking in a pub in 1965 when it wasn't actually illegal.

 

[transam]

Repatriation should be paid to the UK for that

1066 caper

Argentina should cough up for that Falklands
Caper