Swiss schoolboys given lengthy sentences after Munich rampage

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6255898,00.html

          In this article it discusses three schoolboys getting arrested while on a trip in Munich.  They were in the German City at the time they beat up five random passengers.  They had alcohol and marijuana in their systems.  One of the boys was given seven years.  The other two got 58 and 34 months in prison.  The passengers had severe injuries.

          This crime that took place in Germany is similar to American crimes.  There are always teenagers or young adults feeling the need to start stuff for no reason.  They get the pleasure of beating people up who have done nothing to them.  It is good they go to court for it and spend some time in jail to make them think a little. Although jail doesn't really teach them anything, they are just spending time away from the outside world.

The Demjanjuk trial one year on

          The article I read talks about a trial that has taken place for about a year now.  In 1943, at the Sobibor death camp, John Demjanjuk was accused of helping to murder about 28,000 jews.  Today, he is 90 years old and still denying the charges.  The article also said his case might be the last major Holocaust trial in Germany.  John Demjanjuk has poor health so the court only meets with him three hours a day and sometimes dozes off at the hearings.  The Munich trial will continue until at least March of 2011. 


http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6281707,00.html

         In my opinion, i think it is a little too late now that he is being put on trial for something that happened in 1943.  He is also 90 years old so they can't do much with him since he is so old.  I guess they just want him to admit what he did instead of denying.  In the American culture this would have been taken care of a long time ago though and he would have gotten punished for what he did.  I think the German culture might be a little more laid back than we are. 

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14753327,00.html

German Crimes

This project consists of articles about recent German crimes.  I hope to learn what types of crimes take place in Germany and how severe the punishments are. Also, how simular and different they are from ours.