Irish Examiner view: Recording war crimes evidence

Russians must eventually be held to account as the Nazis were at Nuremberg — the testimonies are mounting

The German Bundestag commemorates Boris Romantschenko on Tuesday. The Buchenwald survivor was killed in a bombing raid in Ukraine. Picture: Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP

When the Russians do something that Hitler’s SS could not by ending the life of a 96-year-old who survived four death camps as part of their campaign of so-called ‘deNazification’, we are in some ways lucky to be able to learn, and discuss, this appalling act by a nation that has fallen into barbarism.

That the story of Boris Romantschenko, veteran of Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen, names in the catalogue of concentration camp infamy, can be told is one of the reasons that Vladimir Putin’s insane invasion is doomed to failure.