Almost 65 years after the end of WWII, old Nazi suspects are still being caught and put on trial. Heinrich Boere is one of these. His capture and subsequent trial, which opened last month, is a huge victory to those who are still adamantly looking to take action against suspected Nazi criminals before they die. Having confessed to the murders of three Dutch civilians in 1944, Boere faces life in jail if he is convicted. Efraim Zuroff, the chief Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, in Jerusalem, commented that the trial
sends a very powerful message that the passage of time in no way diminishes the guilt of murderers, and that old age should not protect the killers of civilians.
Though a final decision has not yet been made, to the families of Boere's victims, judgement cannot come soon enough.
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