BBC interviews the world's 8th most wanted Nazi war criminal.

[Dinner]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7180000/newsid_7180200?redirect=7180296.stm&news=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&asb=1

Interestingly he was a Danish national who joined the SS and was even decorated by Hitler himself. In the last days of the war he fled to Bavaria and later became a German citizen. Denmark has now issued a warrant for his arrest for the war time killing of an anti-Nazi Danish newspaper editor who was shot during the occupation and the man is suspected of taking part in the deportation of Danish Jews to concentration camps though he denies it. Germany has changed some long standing policies and is now refusing to extradite the man back to Denmark where a court wishes to try him for murder.

[Pekka]

Hmhh, didn't read the article, but me thinks if he is responsible for shooting some editor and some other stuff like that... why bother, really? To me, that's close hypocritical. Then again, I don't think that qualifies you as the 8th most wanted nazi criminal alone. So who knows... but meh.

[Dry]

Originally posted by Pekka
[...] if he is responsible for shooting some editor and some other stuff like that... [...] I don't think that qualifies you as the 8th most wanted nazi criminal alone. So who knows... but meh.

Well, maybe he was only 12,438th but with the 12,430 previous already dead, he's now 8th.

[Ecthy]

1. I knew when I read the title that someone was going to make a statement like Pekka's. Luckily it has been clarified, thanks Dry.

2. Contrary to the anglo world, no nation on the entire planet ever extradits their citizens to another country for trial, not even Germany. Not sure what they did wrt to some criminals and Israel earlier on, but the normalcy is: no extradition.

So there's no big surprise here. Should the Danish authorities choose to cooperate with ours, he might get a trial over here. Apart from that, nothing new. Move on.

[Dinner]

The US extradites people all the time and people get extradited to the US from other countries. Including citizens and noncitizens.

[yaroslav]

Originally posted by Ecthy
2. Contrary to the anglo world, no nation on the entire planet ever extradits their citizens to another country for trial, not even Germany.

Do you mean for war criminals or in general? Because, if in general, I am pretty sure that Spain has extradited to and has got criminals from other European/American countries.

[Proteus_MST]

If I remembr correctly there was some kind of EU wie law that germany deliberately didn´t sign.

Content of the law was to make it easier to extradite people to other countries if people were searched in those countries for any crims.

We didn´t sign it because it would mean that we would also be forced to extradite people to other signatory states, where things like torture are still common and therefore the extradiction would be incompatible wirth the grman constitutional law.

[Ecthy]

Oerdin, firstly the US is a part of the "anglo world" I talked of. If they received extradites from other countries it's probably those countries that were under very strong influence from yours.

Yaro, I would expect those countries are South American. I'm not an expert on legal issues, but I can imagine that these are cases of countries with strong cultural tries putting so much trust into each other that they actually do extradit. Beyond that, extradition of citizens is a very rare matter.

It's also in this light that you have to see Russia's refusal to extradit that one guy to the UK - the very demand to do so was extremely stupid.

In the case of Nazi criminals, there's usually a lot of cooperation from all sides. Germany definitely won't extradit, however if the accusals prove legit he'll probably face some trial. Depends on the state attorneys over here, but chances are that a refusal of a trial would be based only on a strong lack of evidence.

[yaroslav]

Originally posted by Proteus_MST
We didn´t sign it because it would mean that we would also be forced to extradite people to other signatory states, where things like torture are still common and therefore the extradiction would be incompatible wirth the grman constitutional law.

Torture? Common? In The European Union? In which country?

[Julian Delphiki]

UK - Spice Girls comeback

[C0ckney]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Oerdin, firstly the US is a part of the "anglo world" I talked of. If they received extradites from other countries it's probably those countries that were under very strong influence from yours.

we have extradition treaties with all sorts of countries, many of them not part of 'anglo world'.

[Ecthy]

Oh yes, and all of them extradit their citizens to the UK?

What kind of "extradition treaties" are they?

[C0ckney]

well that is rather the point of an extradition treaty...

i haven't really got time to go in to as i'm at work, but this link should prove helpful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003

[SlowwHand]

Germany has given many people around the world reason to think ill of them. To hold on to a Nazi, makes zip sense. Well, it makes zip sense if yiou give a damn about what the world thinks of complicity of the brazen murder of millions.
I guess if you don't care, it doesn't matter.
If I were running the German circus, I'd say, "Hell yes, take him". That's just me though.

[TheStinger]

We extradite people to germany,