Really, Germany?

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I think the question is not if this person committed the crimes, but whether or not we should actively put people with dementia in jail considering they will not understand what is happening like a "normal" criminal.

None of them will actually go to jail. That's not a third world country, that's a country where they actually investigate if the man in question is fit to stand trial or fit to serve jail time.

And that's not the point of the trial either. Apart from the fact that I found no mention of him suffering from dementia in the German news reports. only that he told authorities, he didn't know anyone was murdered at Auschwitz.

Same with Oscar Gröning. He got his four years last july and now things are on the backburner, when it comes to determine if he's actually fit to do time. In hopes, nature will take it's course before anything is decided.