A secret list of hundreds of alleged Nazi war criminals welcomed by Canada after the Second World War, drawn up 40 years ago, should remain secret, the information watchdog ruled Friday.
The list of more than 700 suspected Nazi war criminals who settled in Canada has remained unpublished since it was drawn up as part of an official inquiry in 1986.
- Globe and Mail
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The time to release this was before they were all dead or near enough to it.
Although if they all moved to Alberta, that’d explain some things
What pisses me off even more than hiding war criminals is the fact that we are living in the time of the greatest assaults on privacy that humanity has ever seen and countless ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’ bullshit and yet at the exact same moment we are seeing stuff like this.
Forget advertising… I can’t remember a time when I bought something due to a targeted ad, but it is 100% about curtailing opposition to the government. They don’t care if you are an armed terrorist (or maybe they do… they want you to at least try to mobilize your plans so they can either claim it a success or justify the need for more) or just an activist trying to make real change.
I remember back in the 90s when reading social studies books about environmentalism and they mentioned several South American activists who were machine gunned for their anti-logging activities. Despite all the hubbub about that there was not a single damn mention of how fucking evil those companies were and basically had the violence depicted as normal.
No one has nothing to hide. Especially if you think you have nothing to hide. There is no such thing as information that can’t be used against you in some way. Also the people at the top seem like they only got there due to a life of white collar crime or facilitating such. Donald Trump is amazingly secretive about his finances and was convicted of all charges of financial fraud.
They are going to make it possible for only the biggest scum to rise to the top. Basically if you want to make it big in the corporate ladder you need to do serious bullshit. Same for politics. How do you do that when you have committed serious shit? Well the fact that you figured a way to do it despite all that surveillance will be the point. Those that get caught are weeded out.
And heaven help you if you are trying to make the world a better place. If you were ever poor and had to shoplift to survive once in your life… they will make it public and make it that you cannot be trusted… but if it turned out you were a fixer for killing environmentalists in some third world country? Well then, expect the media to call it BS, a huge lawsuit against whistleblowers, followed by them not showing up in court because they committed suicide with multiple gun shots to their own head.
why? so we can invite another one to parliament hill and be the laughing stock of the world again?
no. I’m sorry but no. Take them to court, charge them (well the ones still alive which I imagine is slim to none) and then release their names after conviction. I don’t care about their families and protecting them. I’m sorry but no. The German people have and still to this day work on fixing and acknowledging their past and just because your grand pappy nazi fled to Canada doesn’t give you a pass to not do the same.
My Grandfather fought Nazi’s in the war, he lost his brother to the Nazi’s, my family absolutely HATES Nazi’s and the last thing I would want is to be living next to a relative of a Nazi. Hell I dont’ even like living above the United States right now.
If Canada isn’t charging them with a crime, then releasing their names is just starting a witch hunt, and government sanctioned witch hunts are a bad idea.
They should be charged, and if found guilty, named and deported or jailed, though I think at this point they’re all likely dead. They may have relatives that are still alive, and there’s no reason to get them involved.
Protecting relatives from unwarrented assaults or harassment is the only reasonable logic behind keeping it a secret.
My friends Oma was dating and old German dude till the news come out and Canada was looking into Nazi crime list. That ended their senior romance quickly.
No, they shouldn’t. Name them
Absolutely fucking not. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
Pretty sure they’re all dead now anyway. Certainly any of them that were of an age to be responsible for any of that. The last surviving officer of the Weirmacht for instance died in 2006 at age 98.
What about the one our parliament gave a standing ovation to recently?
Exactly the reason why LAC (library archives of Canada) refused to release the list
Okay, but do we know that there aren’t people alive today who materially profited from these Nazis escaping prosecution? Like, a Nazi officer escapes with a bunch of gold fillings pulled from concentration camp victims, he uses that gold to start a business, and his family is still rich from that business today? That kind of scenario merits investigation, even if the original Nazi is long dead.
Presumably to protect their families? That might be the only acceptable reason. Especially if only alleged rather than proven.
All charges are alleged, they are proven in court. Not bringing them to court keeps their charges alleged.
They were evading the courts pure and simple.
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Is this about Americans?
No, it’s about Ukrainian supporters of the Nazi invasion coming to Canada after the war.
