Genocide...not exactly a happy topic for a Monday!

The holocaust has always interested me, for some reason it blows my mind how one man can take a country by storm, and convince actual humans that a certain group of people are not worthy of living. In the case of World War II, my opinion is simply that any person taking part in the genocide of the Jewish population should be held accountable and suffer the same consequences. Hitler, the Nazi party, as well as groups such as the gestapo should be held accountable as any other murderer would be, for even if they did not shoot one person, they were still apart of a group that killed more than 4 million innocent people. This week in class we read "The Table" by Ida Fink and she made the observation and asked the question should there be an alternative code for trying people that were involved with Genocide, instead of trying them by the same code we use for trivial crimes. After a writing exercise and a class discussion my view hasn't really changed.  To try a case such as genocide is in a totally different ballpark then trying a petty crime such as rubbery or a low grade misdemeanor. The nazi party killed millions of people, and that should not go without blame. I understand that these trials are hard to deal with for it was a long time ago, and the few survivors left have had their memories faded by the test of time, but we all know that their is something wrong with what they did. In "The Table," the prosecutor is finding fault, for even though all four stories are similar they have no concrete detail to go on in the crime, so for them to truly prosecute Kiper in the trial for this murder, they would need more evidence that they don't have. Therefore, a new code for trying genocide is needed to prove this man is guilty, and even though it may be tough to try someone on a new system--it would simply make the victims of WWII a little more at peace and have justice.