history1 wrote:wm, do you believe everything what´s written in newspapers or only when it´s against assumed war criminals belonging to the German minority in Poland? We know how those post war trials with soviet influx looked like, revenge is what they wanted at all costs, nothing less.
I didn't say he was a war criminal, only that he was sentenced as such. This is good enough to write that he was anyway.
history1 wrote:wm, your Polish "August 1944 degree" is of NO importance. It´s even not mentioned in the article. So your reference to it is nothing than your personal assumption/assertion without any proof.
It is, because it concerned itself with Polish traitors and hitlerite criminals committing their crimes during the WW2, in short war criminals.
People who did stupid things during occupation - Poles, Germans, and their allies were tried under that decree. Always. And for a member of the occupation forces it was always always. The Polish penal code wouldn't allow to sentence Mr Grudziński to death.
history1 wrote:I request you point out which articles of the Hague and Geneva Conventions he violated! And do not forget to post your source!
I posted it already, the parts with "must be respected", "No general penalty" from Hague IV.
You seem not to be aware that crimes committed during war or during occupation make you a war criminal. You didn't have to gas people by millions, it was sufficient to mistreat a few.
And the fact is the Laws of War granted the injured party the right to be the judge and the executioner. Poland had every right to send Mr Grudziński to prison for a few months, or to execute him. It made no difference, it was their decision.
The moral is don't do stupid things during war, if you want to beat up people wait till the end of war and you'll be fine.
You shouldn't assume I didn't know anything on this subject, actually I've read a lot about it, and things written by people who took part in those Peace Conventions in Hague.
history1 wrote:Here are examples of the trials I mentioned above (convictions for postings on Facebook):
The examples you've posted will result in losing by Austria the
free country status granted by the Reporters without Borders organization. As it happened to UK (mostly free now) and the US (49 place behind Burkina Faso).
You think that as the so called "good guys" you have more rights that the others, and you can judge and sentence people according to your ideology.
In fact you are enablers for those who may come later - the "bad guys", people who will call themselves the "good guys" too and will use the today established rules to do their own dirty tricks - and then it will not be fun at all.
